| Summary: | Aragon’s writings have long been wrongly perceived through a single-minded ideological angle. While the complexity of Aragon’s two facets—that of the political activist and that of the writer—is now acknowledged, contemporary critics often over-investigate the still elusive intertwining between these two poles, and its consequences on the writing itself are too rarely examined. It is therefore necessary to reexamine and rethink the nature of this link, exposing the incompatibility between Aragon’s compulsive drive towards disorder and dislocation, pervading his writings, and the Communist party’s coercive nature.
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