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Before I read this week, I decided to watch the lecture before reading rather than afterward like I did last week. It really helped me to grasp at themes to expect while reading. I really kept in mind Professor Jon’s question of “how does Aragon view or depict the passage of time? What sense of …

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Hey everyone!  I was really excited to read the Paris Peasant because unlike the last book we were reading a... read full post >>

When I began reading this book I felt as if I was keeping up with understanding what Aragon was describing, but soon after, maybe 15 pages in, I realized I actually wasn’t. Many times throughout my reading, I found myself retracing over previous pages or trying to make sense of it for minutes at a […] read full post >>

Although I felt that this book started a bit slow and the syntax style wasn’t my personal favourite, I really enjoyed this read. I thought that the setting was especially great and made every scene feel like it was being surrounded by beauty within the city. I think though that having a better knowledge of […] read full post >>

I didn’t expect to find Paris Peasant so interesting, but I really did enjoy reading it. Between the French setting and the persistent attention to detail, it sort of made me feel like I was revisiting Les Misérables – if Les Misérables had been narrated by some kind of immortal being with intense nostalgia and an unstable grip […] read full post >>

Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon was certainly an interesting read. It was unlike anything I have read before as a teen or young adult. The strange use of vocabulary, grammar, fonts, textures and the insertion of random signs and posters gave the book a c... read full post >>

Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon was certainly an interesting read. It was unlike anything I have read before as a teen or young adult. The strange use of vocabulary, grammar, fonts, textures and the insertion of random signs and posters gave the book a c... read full post >>

Words like historic, romanic and chic are a part of my common vocabulary when I think about Paris. However, through reading Aragon’s “Paris Peasant” (1994) , I was offered an opportunity to imagine a distinctively different Paris. In his vivid descriptions … Continue reading → read full post >>

Louis Aragon’s Paris Peasant is the first surrealist novel that I’ve read. While it isn’t the first surrealist work of fiction that I’ve ever experienced, shows like FLCL and films like Midsommar, and DOPE exemplify the deeply psychological and blurry narratives archetypical of surrealist fiction. However, Paris Peasant acts as a landmark of surrealist literature […] read full post >>

This was an interesting and enjoyable read for me. At first, I found it a bit difficult to get into, and was frustrated at my lack of knowledge of the geography of Paris which I felt would’ve aided in my understanding of Aragon’s musings of the city in the first twenty pages or so. However, […] read full post >>

I really enjoyed “Paris Peasant” by Louis Aragon because of how unconventional it was compared to other novels I have... read full post >>

The novel Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon in 1926 focuses on the concepts of “surrealism” and “modernity”, and is neither a narrative nor a character study. Instead, the work was regarded as an “Avant-Garde” cultural innovation. The book dedicated all of its chapters to the revolutionary “surreal” nostalgia about the environment of Paris in the […] read full post >>

Hello everyone, my name is Shanshan Zhang. I am currently a third-year student majoring in psychology, and I am currently in my third year of university. However, this year I have decided to transfer to the Department of Visual Arts. Originally from China, I spent the first twelve years of my life in Shanghai, then […] read full post >>

In all honesty and transparency, this was a really challenging book for me to get through. I found it extremely confusing and almost always felt myself questioning what I was reading. Aragon’s words felt (for lack of better words) jumbled together as if we were listening to the constant thoughts and images running in his …

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I loved reading Paris Peasant. It was everything it was described as: “a-novel-that-was-not-a-novel”, a character study, a portrait, part-fiction, part-treatise, part-memoir. I did wonder beforehand how a novel could encompass all of these things and still be balanced and enjoyable, yet it did all these things and more. For a few moments during my reading, […] read full post >>