Aragon, Louis
(1897–1982)
Aragon, LouisAragon, LouisLouis Aragon (B * PARIS 1897 – D † PARIS 1982) French poet, novelist, critic, journalist, co-inventor of Surrealism. That Aragon never knew who his real father or mother was until he was well into adulthood may have created a lifelong preoccupation with themes of recognition and fidelity (eg: to woman and to Communism). His real mother pretended to be an older sister, and his father was an important man in French politics, Louis Andrieux (1840 – 1931, same initials as…