Before psychogeography, the Situationists and dream urbanism, there was Paris Peasant, a pioneering Surrealist excavation of the twentieth centurys capital cityParis Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Changes edition is the first US publication of Simon Watson Taylors authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in formAragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character developmentParis Peasant is, in the authors words, a mythology of the modern. The book uses the city of Paris as a stage or framework, and Aragon interweaves his text with images of related ephemera caf menus, maps, inscriptions on monuments and newspaper clippings. A detailed description of a Parisian arcade (nineteenthcentury precursor to the minimall) and another of the ButtesChaumont park, are among the great set pieces within Aragons swirling prose of philosophy, dream and satire. Andr Breton wrote of this work no one could have been a more astute detector of the unwonted in all its forms no one else could have been carried away by such intoxicating reveries about a sort of secret life of the city....

Binding: Paperback;228 pages; Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.; Classification: FA; Weight: 464 g; Dimensions: 203 x 152 x 15

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