Aragon: The Resistance Poems

A volume in the Critical Guides To French Texts, this is a study of the resistance poems of Louis Aragon, written during the Second World War as contributions to the resistance against the Nazi occupation of France; studies the themes, structure, poetic technique, social/historical cirmustances, and impact of three collections of poems, Le Creve-coeur, Les Yeux d’Elsa, and La Diane francaise; please note, the critical text is in English, with quotes from the poems in French.