Aragon did well in school and passed the high school diploma in 1915. He read a lot of literary works and began writing novels and poems when he was seven or eight years old. Following his mother's orders, he studied medicine at university and met Andre Breton, who later became the leader of Surrealism. He was a medical student when the First World War broke out. At the age of nineteen, he was drafted into the army and worked as a "medical assistant" in the army hospital. In 1919, Aragon was demobilized and returned home, where he continued to study medicine and began literary creation. In medicine, he reached the level of an intern; in literature, he also achieved good results. Together with Breton and Soupo, he founded the magazine "Literature" and began a long literary career. The period from 1921 to 1928 was the first stage of Aragonese literary activities. This period can be called his Surrealist period. He published poetry collections "The Fire of Joy" (1920), "Perpetual Motion" (1925) and novels "Anisei or the Panorama" (1921) and "The Bumpkin in Paris" (1926).
In 1927, Aragon joined the French Communist Party. In November 1928, in a cafe in Montparnasse, Paris, he met the Soviet poet Mayakovsky and his Girlfriend Elsa Triole. A few months later, Aragorn and Elsa began to live as a couple. In the first half of the 1930s, he visited the Soviet Union four times. After returning home, he published a collection of poems "Long Live the Urals" and a series of speeches advocating "socialist realism." Began publishing the multi-volume novel "The Real World". In 1931, he broke with his old friends of Surrealism due to the publication of the poem "Red Front". In 1937, the French Communist Party founded the newspaper "Tonight", and he and the progressive writer Blok accepted the task of leading the editorial work of the newspaper. At the same time, he also had contact with Trotsky's group. At the beginning of World War II, France declared war on Germany and issued a nationwide mobilization order, and Aragon enlisted in the army again. He was commended by the army superiors for inventing a key that could open the top cover from the outside of the tank to rescue the wounded. And because he risked his life to rescue the wounded on the line of fire, from major operations to minor dressings, from delivering food to loading ammunition, he was awarded the Military Medal for outstanding work. In the second half of the war, in France under Nazi occupation, Aragon went underground and participated in the "resistance movement." At the same time, he wrote many poems full of patriotic passion, such as "Elsa's Eyes" (1942), "Wax Museum" (1943), "Morning in France" (1945), etc. Calling on the people to rise up against the fascist bandits, his famous "Ji Chang Ji" was circulated secretly in France, inspiring the "resistance movement" and having a far-reaching influence. He also wrote several short stories, compiled into the collection "The Humiliation and Greatness of the French"; in addition, he created a series of novels with the general theme of "The Real World", many of which were written during the war-torn years. of.
During the Second World War, Aragon accepted the task given to him by the underground party and wrote a book based on the family letters, suicide notes, and notes of many Communists who died in the struggle against the enemy. A book that recounts and praises the heroic deeds of the martyrs to educate party members and the people. The writer accomplished this task brilliantly and published a collection of essays "The Communists" (1946). The second volume "The Communists" (1953), published later, introduced several "big figures" in the party such as Maurice Thorez. At the same time, Aragon continued to write a series of novels based on the "real world" theme. After the ceasefire of World War II, Aragon's political life and literary activities entered a new stage. From 1947 onwards, he was the editor-in-chief of the resumed Tonight newspaper until 1953. In 1954, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party. The main achievement of this period was the multi-volume novel "The Communists". The book is divided into six volumes, mainly describing the chaos of French society, the suffering of the people and the anti-fascist struggle of the French Communists from the eve of the outbreak of World War II to the time when the Nazi German army was about to occupy Paris. With specific historical events as the background and the revolutionary character and behavior of the Communists as the theme, a huge relief is formed that reflects an extremely dangerous and turbulent period in French history. This is a film with profound realist significance. epic novel. In 1957, the Soviet government awarded Aragon the "Lenin Peace Prize" in recognition of his literary cooperation with the then Soviet Communist Party. In the 1960s, he successively received the title of "Honorary Doctor" from the University of Prague and Moscow University. After Khrushchev denounced Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Soviet Union, he published the novel "Passion Week" in 1958, which marked a new direction for his creation. The work mainly tells the story of a French young man who became a cavalryman of Louis XVIII's Guards and fled Paris when Napoleon made a comeback. His later works include "Execution" (1965), "Drama Novel" (1974), etc.