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- Title
« La valse des adieux » de Louis Aragon ou le passé composé de l'avenir.
- Authors
SIMARD, MATHIEU
- Abstract
The last issue of the communist cultural weekly Les Lettres françaises was released in October 1972. Louis Aragon, its editor for the preceding 20 years, chose to publish a short story entitled “La valse des adieux” as the last editorial. This short story was issued again eight years later in Aragon’s Le mentir-vrai. Its first-person narrator uses his personal failure to express a strong condemnation of ideological self-delusion. Last but not least, this self-criticism rhetoric is supported by a surrealist wandering in Paris and its outskirts, where the narrative melds memory and history. Based on Aragon’s intertextuality approach, this paper aims to show that “La valse des adieux” expresses first and foremost a critical view on history, in line with the author’s last novels.
- Subjects
LA valse des adieux (Short story); ARAGON, 1897-1982; 20TH century French literature; INTERTEXTUALITY; FANTAISIE (Poem); NERVAL, Gerard de, 1808-1855; LE mentir-vrai (Book); ANICET ou le panorama: Roman (Book); LITERARY criticism; FRENCH literature
- Publication
Études Françaises, 2016, Vol 52, Issue 2, p141
- ISSN
0014-2085
- Publication type
Short Story Review
- DOI
10.7202/1036929ar