What's life like in Aragon?

Aragon, 1897 was born, 19 14 was a medical student when World War I broke out. He was drafted into the army and served in an army hospital. He met two young people of similar age, André Breton and Philip Su Bo. Later, all three became masters of surrealist literature. Aragon 19 19 was demobilized, continued to study medicine and began to engage in literary activities. He made great achievements in medicine, but he gave up his medical life and launched a modernist literary movement-surrealism. Aragon once declared that to persist in modernism regardless is to adhere to the anti-traditional literary road.

1920, Aragon published a collection of poems "The Fire of Joy" and a novel "Anicet", both of which are surreal works. From 65438 to 0924, three collections of essays were published successively: Wave of Dreams, Laissez-faire and Villagers in Paris. The latter has a great influence and is generally regarded as the representative work of surrealist literature.

From 65438 to 0928, Aragon's literary career entered a new stage. He changed from surrealism to "socialist realism". At that time, many surrealist literati were close to the revolution. Bleton, Ai Lvya, Aragon and others all joined the French production party, but they soon left the party one after another. Only Aragon stayed in the party. 1928 Aragon knew Soviet poets Mayakovski and Elsa Triolet and lived with Elsa.

From 1930 to 1932, Aragon visited the Soviet Union one after another. 1934 attended the 1 th all-Soviet writers' congress. After returning to France, he published a collection of poems praising the Bolshevik revolution, Long live the Urals! 》; At the same time, he made a series of speeches and advocated "socialist realism".

At the beginning of World War II, Aragon was drafted into the army. 1940 Nazi Germany occupied France, and Aragon went underground to participate in the anti-enemy movement. While working, he wrote many patriotic poems and called on the people to rise up against fascism, which had a great influence at that time. These poems are collected in the following collections: heartbroken collection (194 1), Elsa's eyes (1942), the Wax Man Museum (1943) and Dawn in France (1945). He also wrote many short stories and compiled them into the story collection "The Humiliation and Greatness of France" (1945). In addition, I also wrote a series of novels with the theme of the real world, among which "The Bells of Balak" (1934) and "The City of Luxury" (1936) were written before World War II. Passengers on the Top Floor of the Tram (1943) and Aureli Ann (1944) were written in wartime.

During the Second World War, Aragon accepted the task assigned to him by the underground party, and compiled a collection of recorded essays-"The Maker of * * * (1946)" based on many letters from home, dead letters and party member's notes. He also wrote about the revolutionary actions of French-born party member in the anti-fascist war in the form of novels. The novel * * * is divided into six volumes, with the total title of * * * written in party member, which was published in succession during 1947~ 195 1 year.

1957, the Soviet government awarded Aragon Lenin Peace Prize in recognition of his literary cooperation with the Soviet Union. 1963, he was awarded the title of "honorary doctor" by Prague University, Czech Republic. 1965, Moscow university also awarded him the same honorary title. 1958, Aragon published the novel Week of Passion, which described the story of a young painter who left Paris in a hurry to avoid Napoleon. Among Aragon's works, Passion Week marks a new direction of his creation. His preface to My showdown (1959) and his collection of essays Boundless Realism (1964) theoretically expounded the new direction of socialist realism which was quite different from what he advertised in the past.

Aragon's works in his later years, such as the novel Death (1965), Blanche Ru Ru or Forgetting (1967), only mathis (197 1) and dramatic novels (1977). He once claimed that if he did not leave surrealism, it would be the highest evaluation of the quality of his works.

Aragon's novel Born in * * * has been translated into Chinese, and its title is the producer of * * *. His poems and short stories have also been translated into Chinese: Aragon's poems and notes.