Poetically faithful unto death
3 October 1897 24 December 1982 Louis Aragon was born in Paris on 3 October 1897. The poet and novelist after taking part in Dadaism from 1919 to 1924, he founded the surrealist movement together with André Breton and Philippe Soupault. In his surrealist stage writes the poetry collections "fire of joy" (Feu de joie, 1920), "perpetual motion" (Le mouvement perpétuel, 1924), besides the fantastic tale "the farmer of Paris" (Le paysan de Paris, 1926). Joins, along with some members of the surrealist group, of the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1927, which will remain faithful until death. Compose a cycle of four novels on social issues, whose title is "the real world" (1934-1944). After meeting with Elsa Triolet, writer of Russian origin, and after several stays in the Soviet Union, public social and political content: novels Aragon "the bells of Basel" (Les cloches de Bale, 1934), "The Communists" (Les communistes, 1949-51). His poetry will be greatly inspired by Elsa, who became his wife in 1939. During the Nazi occupation join the resistance developing an intense political activity and organization. The poetry of those years are infused with patriotic feeling: "Heartbreak" (Crève-coeur, 1941), "The French" Diana (La Diane française, 1945). One of his famous poem is l'Affiche rouge (red poster), with which France pays tribute to dead foreigners fighting for Aragon. Motivation is an answer to the Nazi propaganda dubbed "L'affiche Rouge", which aimed to convince the French people that the resistance movement was composed of foreigners, mostly Jews, who were the interests of Britain and the Soviet Union. Aragon and Triolet collaborated to the French press of the left before and during World War II, acting in hiding during the Nazi occupation. During the German occupation of France in World War II, he wrote for Les Éditions de Minuit, a clandestine Publishing House. After his wife's death in 1970, Aragon meters homosexual preferences. He died on December 24, 1982, watched over by his friend Jean Ristat. Buried in the Park of Moulin de Villeneuve, his property in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, lies alongside his wife Elsa.