CRITICISM

Ahearn, Edward J. “Surrealism and Its Discontents: Breton's Nadja and Aragon's Paysan de Paris.” In Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age, pp. 94-116. Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996.

Discusses the revolutionary tenets of Aragon and Breton as they are depicted in their literary works.

Nicholls, Peter. “Death and Desire: The Surrealist Adventure.” In Modernisms: A Literary Guide, pp. 279-302. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Discusses Nightwalker as a defining work of the Surrealist movement.

Spender, Stephen. “Louis Aragon's The Red Front.” In The Thirties and After: Poetry, Politics, People, 1933-1970, pp. 30-31. New York: Random House, 1979.

Condemns Aragon's poem The Red Front as communist propaganda.

Suleiman, Susan Rubin. “Subversions, or the Play of Writing …” In Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre, pp. 199-238. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

Brief consideration of Aragon's novel Residential Quarter in a discussion of several French thesis novels of diverse political, social, and religious ideologies.

Walker, David H. “Young Iconoclasts: Surrealism and the Scene of the Crime …” In Outrage and Insight: Modern French Writers and the “Fait Divers,” pp. 70-86. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1995.

Study of brief newspaper stories of “scandal, sensation, and disruptions of the norm,” and their relationship to writings by the Surrealists, particularly Aragon's Nightwalker.

Additional coverage of Aragon's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 69-72, 108; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 28, 71; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 3, 22; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 72, 258; DISCovering Authors Modules: Novelists and Poets; European Writers, Vol. 11; Gay & Lesbian Literature, Ed. 2; Guide to French Literature, 1789-Present; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; and Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. 2.