Aurélien (680 pp.)Louis Aragon, translated by Eithne WilkinsDuell, Sloan & Pearce ($6).
From Aurélien, readers would not be likely to guess that handsome Author Louis Aragon is the intellectual showpiece of France's Communist Party. Written while Aragon kept one jump ahead of the Germans as a prolific pamphleteer of the Resistance, this novel steers clear of both Communism and World War II. Aurélien is the typical, almost standard, Gallic love story in which a wife knows how to stay out of the way when her husband's mistress turns up. Aragon seems as slickly at home in this tradition as he is in...
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