Les Beaux Quartiers

Louis Aragon (1897-1982) was a French poet, novelist, and essayist, a founding figure of Surrealism who co-founded the review Littérature and authored notable works like Le Paysan de Paris (1926), the Le Monde réel cycle, and Aurélien (1944). He joined the French Communist Party in 1927, contributed to Resistance efforts during WWII, won the Prix Renaudot for Les Beaux Quartiers (1936), received the Lenin Peace Prize, and was frequently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature after 1959.