{"product_id":"paris-peasant-paperback","title":"Paris Peasant - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouis Aragon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSimon Watson Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eSimon Watson Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBefore psychogeography, the Situationists and dream urbanism, there was \u003ci\u003eParis Peasant\u003c\/i\u003e, a pioneering Surrealist excavation of the twentieth century's capital city\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eParis Peasant\u003c\/i\u003e (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first US publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration or character development--\u003ci\u003eParis Peasant\u003c\/i\u003e is, in the author's words, \"a mythology of the modern.\" The book uses the city of Paris as a stage or framework, and Aragon interweaves his text with images of related ephemera: caf  menus, maps, inscriptions on monuments and newspaper clippings. A detailed description of a Parisian arcade (nineteenth-century precursor to the mini-mall) and another of the Buttes-Chaumont park, are among the great set pieces within Aragon's swirling prose of philosophy, dream and satire. Andr  Breton wrote of this work: \"no one could have been a more astute detector of the unwonted in all its forms; no one else could have been carried away by such intoxicating reveries about a sort of secret life of the city....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 7.96 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165609758855,"sku":"9781878972101","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a207cc291796572cd048bc8f9e7c2d54.webp?v=1733314909","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/paris-peasant-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}