NEUF CHANSONS INTERDITES. 1942-1944.
s.l. [Saint-Flour], s.d. [1944]: Bibliothéque Français.[Published during the Vichy regime]. 1944.
1st Edition. Soft cover. [Aragon, Louis] François la Colère. NEUF CHANSONS INTERDITES. 1942-1944. Bibliothéque Français.[Published during the Vichy regime]. 12mo. /in-12, 19pp. Light blue wrappers / broché printed in black & red. Very uncommon. In near fine condition /En bon états. First Edition / Edition originale clandestine. Rare. A cette époque, dirigées par Aragon et Elsa Triolet. GEOGHEGAN AL592. Louis Aragon [1897 - 1982]. Un poète, romancier, journaliste et essayiste français. Il est également connu pour son engagement et son soutien au Parti communiste français de 1930 jusqu'à sa mort. Avec André Breton, Paul Éluard, Philippe Soupault, il fut l'un des animateurs du dadaïsme parisien et du surréalisme. Sa poésie est largement inspirée, depuis les années 1940, par l'amour qu'il voue à son épouse, Elsa Triolet, écrivain elle aussi, et belle-sur de Vladimir Maïakovski. Louis Aragon [1897 - 1982] French poet, novelist & editor. Having been involved in Dadaism from 1919 to 1924, he became a founding member of Surrealism in 1924, with André Breton & Philippe Soupault under the pen-name "Aragon". In 1939 he married Russian-born author Elsa Triolet, the sister of Lilya Brik, a mistress & common-law wife of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. He had met her in 1928, and she became his muse starting in the 1940s. Aragon and Triolet collaborated in the left-wing French media before and during World War II, going underground for most of the Nazi occupation. Louis Aragon wrote poems under the name of Le Musée Grévin (using the pseudonym of François la Colère), published during the Vichy regime by the Éditions de Minuit underground editor. A rare publication.
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