Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

This activism led him to break his friendly relationship with Pierre Drieu La Rochelle who had chosen Collaborationism. He thus wrote in 1954 Strophes pour se souvenir in commemoration of the role of foreigners in the Resistance which celebrated the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée (FTP-MOI). As a novelist he encompasses the whole ethos of the Twentieth century: surrealist novel socialist realism realism nouveau roman.

Louis Aragon (French pronunciation: ​[lwi aʁaˈɡɔ̃] born Louis Andrieux (October 3 1897 – December 24 1982) was a French poet novelist and editor a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt.