In the spring of 1919 he, Breton, and Philippe Soupault formed a group dedicated to establishing a new art form, one that reached beyond realism to a dreamlike quality. Aragon served in the military until 1919, taking part in the Allied military occupation of the Rhineland and Saar. He also began to write his first novel, Anicet, or, The Panorama (1921), and the narrative The Adventures of Telemachus (1922). In the midst of battle, he composed some of the poems that appear in his first collection, Bonfire (1920). Aragon was sent to the frontlines as a medical orderly. In 1917, Aragon learned the truth about his parentage after he was called into the French infantry, where he met up with fellow draftee Breton. World War I was primarily fought in trenches on the Western Front, including France. While the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria- Hungry, invoked a domino effect of war declarations because of entangling alliances of many European countries, the Great War was also caused by various military, economic, and ethnic rivalries as well. Wrote While Serving in World War I By this time, France as well as much of Europe were embroiled in World War I. When Aragon published his first article on Apollinaire, “Alcide,” in the journal Sicoú (1917), Apollinaire asked Aragon to write a review of his play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917). In 1908, he enrolled in the Faculté de Médecine de Paris, met André Breton at Adrienne Monnier's avantgarde bookshop, and his writing came to the attention of Guillaume Apollinaire. In 1912, he went to the Lycée Carnot in Paris, earning degrees in Latin and the sciences in 1914 and in philosophy in 1915. He completed his first novel at age nine. At fourteen months he was reunited with his parents, though he was brought up to believe that his mother was his sister, his father was his godfather and tutor, and his grandmother was his adoptive mother.Īragon was reading and writing even before he started attending Madame Boucher's private school in 1906 and the École Saint-Pierre in 1907. To hide the circumstances of his birth, his parents arranged for him to be brought up as the adoptive son of his maternal grandmother, Claire Toucas. His mother was single, and his father was already married. Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĪ Child Prodigy Aragon was born in the Beaux Quartiers section of Paris on October 3, 1897, to Marguerite Toucas-Massillon and Louis Andrieux Aragon. He was also a founder of the Dada and surrealist movements. Giving his voice and images to the art of France, Aragon was a leading influence on the shaping of the novel in the early to mid-twentieth century. Louis Aragon was a writer, poet, and critic who analyzed the underlying messages in the literature and politics of France.
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