biography
pronunciation:
[aragõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1982)
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| biography:
| Political activist and writer, born in Paris, France. One of the most brilliant of the Surrealist group, he co-founded the journal Littérature with André Breton in 1919. He published two volumes of poetry, Feu de joie (1920) and Le Mouvement perpétuel (1925), and a Surrealist novel, Le Paysan de Paris (1926). After a visit to the Soviet Union in 1930 he became a convert to Communism, wrote a series of social-realistic novels entitled Le Réel (1933–51), and later edited the communist weekly Les Lettres Françaises (1953–72). Other novels include La semaine sainte (1958, Holy Week). |
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