Life is Worth It: A Reading of Louis Aragon
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…
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…
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Lord, purge our eyes to see within the seed a tree, within the glowing egg a bird, within the shroud a butterfly: till taught by such, we…
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