Had we not known anything about Louis Aragon (c.1887-1982)—the poet, essayist, novelist and political activist whose oeuvre encompasses the whole ethos of the 20th century—we could have easily taken him for a modern Ecclesiastes poetically debating the issue of man “under the sun” before taking the “leap to the azure” that leads him to the…
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