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Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 - 14 July 1993) was a Franco-Monegasque poet, composer, singer and musician.
Born in Monaco, Ferré mixed love and melancholy with moral anarchy, lyricism with slang, rhyming verse with prose monologues. He moved from music-hall to orchestral music, breaking free from the traditional song structure during the 1970s, inventing his own musical territory, powerfully dramatic and unique. He also set to music several poems by the French poètes maudits, such as François Villon, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, and Arthur Rimbaud, as well as French poets from the 20th century like Guillaume Apollinaire and Louis Aragon.
He took a central place in the French song world and is a prominent figure in this domain. He was involved in anarchism and worked with Radio Libertaire, an anarchist free radio broadcasting in Paris and around France. Along with Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel, he is considered one of the greatest composers and writers of French songs.
Louis Aragon, original name Louis Andrieux (b. Oct. 3, 1897, Paris, France—d. Dec. 24, 1982, Paris), French poet, novelist, and essayist who was a political activist and spokesperson for communism.
Through the Surrealist poet André Breton, Aragon was introduced to avant-garde movements such as Dadaism. Together with Philippe Soupault, he and Breton founded the Surrealist review Littérature (1919). Aragon’s first poems, Feu de joie (1920; “Bonfire”) and Le Mouvement perpétuel (1925; “Perpetual Motion”), were followed by a novel, Le Paysan de Paris (1926; The Nightwalker). In 1927 his search for an ideology led him to the French Communist Party, with which he was identified thereafter, as he came to exercise a continuing authority over its literary and artistic expression.
In 1930 Aragon visited the Soviet Union, and in 1933 his political commitment to communism resulted in a break with the Surrealists. The four volumes of his long novel series, Le Monde réel (1933–44; “The Real World”), describe in historical perspective the class struggle of the proletariat toward social revolution. Aragon continued to employ Socialist Realism in another long novel, Les Communistes (6 vol., 1949–51), a bleak chronicle of the party from 1939 to 1940. His next three novels—La Semaine sainte (1958; Holy Week), La Mise à mort (1965; “The Moment of Truth”), and Blanche ou l’oubli (1967; “Blanche, or Forgetfulness”)—became a veiled autobiography, laced with pleas for the Communist Party. They reflected the newer novelistic techniques of the day.
The poems of Le Crève-Coeur (1941; “Heartbreak”) and La Diane française (1945) express Aragon’s ardent patriotism, and those of Les Yeux d’Elsa (1942; “Elsa’s Eyes”) and Le fou d’Elsa (1963; “Elsa’s Madman”) contain deep sentiments of love for his wife. From 1953 to 1972 Aragon was editor of the communist cultural weekly Les Lettres Françaises. He was made a member of the French Legion of Honour in 1981.
1. L'affiche rouge
2. n'en Tu pas Reviendra
3. Est-ce ainsi les hommes Vivent che?
4. Il n'aurait Fallujah
5. Les fourreurs
6. Blues
7. Elsa
8. L'étrangère
9. Je chante pour passer le temps
10. Je t'aime
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