Aragon Incident

…His eloquent literary talent, mixing humor and lyricism, is fully displayed in works such as the poetry collections "The Fire of Joy" (1920), "Perpetual Motion" (1925), and the novels "Anice or Panorama" (1921) and "A Peasant of Paris" (1926). After joining the Communist Party and meeting Elsa Triolet, Mayakovsky's sister-in-law, he eventually parted ways with Surrealism (the so-called Aragon Affair). He published poetry collections such as "Viva the Urals" (1934) praising the Russian Revolution, and began to publish a series of long novels with the general title "The Real World" in which he advocated Socialist Realism. During World War II, he threw himself into the anti-German resistance movement, and published a succession of masterpieces of resistance poetry, including "A Broken Heart," "Elsa's Eyes," and "The French Rising Trumpet." He was widely revered as a great people's poet who sang of patriotic sentiments in traditional poetic style.

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…詩集《歓びの火》(1920)，《永久運動》(1925)，小説《アニセまたはパノラマ》(1921)，《パリの農夫》(1926)などの作品には，諧謔と抒情の混在する饒舌的文才が遺憾なく発揮されている。共産党入党，マヤコフスキーの義妹エルザ･トリオレとの出会いを契機としてやがてシュルレアリスムとたもとをわかち(いわゆるアラゴン事件)，ロシア革命を賛美する《ウラル万歳》(1934)のような詩集を発表するとともに，社会主義レアリスムを唱えて〈現実世界〉の総題をもつ膨大な連作小説を発表しはじめた。第2次大戦中は対独抵抗運動に身を投じ，《断腸》《エルザの瞳》《フランスの起床らっぱ》をはじめとするレジスタンス詩の傑作を次々と発表し，伝統的な詩法で愛国的感情をうたう大民衆詩人として広く愛誦された。…

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