Paris Peasant，Louis aragon——WEEK3

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 This week I read Parispeasant by Louis Aragon, and here are some of my readings.

The author begins with his reflections on philosophical theories' development and then returns to himself. The errors and sophistry of the philosophical development put forward by the author of the first part made it difficult for me to understand what the author was trying to express (probably because English is not a native language). And the descriptions of the weather and climate that followed turned out to be something I felt relatively better understood. The author sees that anything material is connected to emotional thinking while at the same time relying on rational insights to correct mistakes and find the way to truth. This mixed life of rationality and sensibility has a more psychedelic colour. The combination of reality and illusion makes the author's existence blurred, leaving only a thinking person who is good at thinking. Consciousness. The author tries to get out of this life but doesn't know how to take concrete action.

The author then describes the scenes on the street and the impressions and life experiences left by the different types of shops. It can be said that most of the objects and scenes described by the author are detailed in detail and often use some romantic colour adjective. And he covers the spatial relationship between different shops in it so that people can also outline the general layout of the street and the general colour in the author's impression in their minds. Among them, he described an old couple that made me very emotional to read: "For years now these two old people have been ineluctably moulded to the shape of this absurd place fringing the arcades, visibly consuming their lives, he smoking it away, she sewing, eternally sewing as though the fate of the universe hinged upon her needlework (23)." The sentence seems to combine the fate of the two old couples with the arcade and the act of knitting the older woman's sweater. Endowed with a sense of eternal mission, let me feel the unchanging and dull life of this old couple.

The way the author attaches little notices to the article is also exciting; these little ones put us in the environment. Like a bystander are reading the content of these notices to understand how things are going. This vivid narration makes it unnecessary for the author to describe the development stage of the event in the article again. And these short notices posted in the paper changed the typesetting usually used in books, making the work more lively and more interested in reading the following content.

I incorporate his memories of this street from the author's perspective when reading this article. At the same time, as a reader, I can feel the author's sense of A dashing, lighthearted personality. The author Marcel Proust, whom we've previously known through Combray, clearly has a very different character. It made me realize that even though two authors use similar writing techniques, their experiences in the world are very different because of their perceptions of the world. The writing technique of stream of consciousness does have a unique advantage in allowing readers to experience the author's emotions.

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  1. Jon Beasley-Murray2022年1月23日 19:40

    "This mixed life of rationality and sensibility has a more psychedelic colour."

    Yeah, I think that Aragon would have liked psychedelia! And there were some authors round about this time who did experiment with mind-altering drugs. I mention Walter Benjamin in my lecture, who has a famous article on hashish. Whether through drugs or simply (as in Aragon) through paying attention in new ways, they are interested in experiencing their surroundings differently.

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