Aragon et la nation
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Abstract EN:
With regard to the french nation, aragon's works show a twoofold aspect: a systematic discredit on the one hand and an absolute song of praise on the other hand. Why? how? the world war i veteran first rejected nationalism which he always thought narrow, responsible for wars, meant to concedl the interests of the dominating class. Reading marx and barres more throughfly, aragon gradually realized what really makes up people and he then considered the land which they first see on the day they were born (natio). Moreover, the history of france is rich with the french revolution (1789), the commune and literary and pictorial traditions. By 1934, the writer was then philosophically ready to accept the french heritage as a whole and to praise it epically and lyrcally especially when the country was in danger (during world war ii, the americain hegemony which followed and the building of europe). He then used the heroes of legends and epinal printings from vercingetorix to joan d7arc, he drew his inspiration from michelet and peguy, he went back to classical versification, he participated in working out of communist national politics, he looked at the geography of france with love in the eyes. Finally he designed an original and eternal and wonderful france which is never so much itself as when it opens up to universality.
Abstract FR:
En ce qui concerne la nation francaise, les ecrits d'aragon presentent un double aspect: denigrement systematique d'une part, apologie tous azimuts de l'autre pourquoi? comment? dans un premier temps, l'ancien combattant de 1914-1918 rejette le nationalisme, toujours "etroit", fauteur de guerre, paravent des interets de la classe dominante. Approfondissant sa lecture de marx et de barres, aragon prend peu a peu conscience des realites qui determinent les individus et, parmi elles, le paysage sur lequel ils ouvrent les yeux a la naissance (natio). De plus, l'histoire de france est grande de la revolution de 1789, de la commune, de sa tradition litteraire et picturale. Dans un second temps, a partir de 1934 l'ecrivain est philosophiquement prepare a accepter la totalite de l'heritage francais et a le chanter sur le mode epique et lyrique, en particulier lorsque la patrie se trouve menacee (lors de la deuxieme guerre mondiale puis au moment de l'hegemonie americaine qui s'en suivit ainsi que de la construction de l'europe). A cette fin, aragon mobilise les heros de la legende et de l'epinal, de vercingetorix a jeanne d'arc, s'inspire de michelet et de peguy, renoue avec la versification classique, participe a l'elaboration de la politique nationale communiste, regarde avec amour la geographie francaise. Il se dessine une france profonde, eternelle, merveilleuse qui ne ressemble autant a elle-meme que lorsqu'elle s'ouvre a l'universel.