Forty-three years ago today, on December 24, 1982 (November 10, 1982 in the lunar calendar), French writer Aragon passed away. Aragon was born in Paris on October 3, 1897, and died in the same place on December 24, 1982. His father was the Paris police chief and the French ambassador to Spain. His father had a wife when his mother gave birth to him, so he nominally raised Aragon as his younger brother. He studied medicine in Val de Grasse in 1916. He was drafted into the army in 1917 and won the Cross Medal. In 1919, he was demobilized for participating in the miners 'strike. In the same year, he founded the magazine "Literature" with Breton and Subo, joined the Dadaist movement, and published the poem "Fire of Joy", which Picasso illustrated. Later, he established a surrealist group with Breton and others, and published three poetic essays "The Wave of Dreams","Laissez-faire Collection" and "The Villagers of Paris". He joined the Communist Party of France in January 1927 and published "On Style". In November 1928, he met the Soviet poet Mayakovsky and married him with his girlfriend Elsa Triole, who soon married him. Since then, Aragon embarked on the path of socialist realism, visited the Soviet Union many times, a collection of poems praising the Soviet Union,"Long Live the Urals", and the novel "Baal's Bell", and served as editor-in-chief of the French Communist Party's "Tonight Newspaper". After the outbreak of the Second World War, he was drafted into the army in September 1939. He was awarded military medals, captured and escaped. He participated in the underground resistance movement and published patriotic poems such as "The Hearts" and "The Dawn of France". He also wrote many love poems with the theme of Elsa, as well as "The Communists" written based on the deeds of the martyrs. After the war, he published the novel "Communists" and won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959. The historical novel "Suffering Week" published in 1958 marked his departure from the path of socialist realism. In 1963, he wrote a preface to Galotti's book "On Boundless Realism" and spoke highly of "Boundless Realism." In his later years, such as the novels "Execution","Bai Langru and Forgetfulness", the collection of short stories "Deceiving the Truth", and the collection of poems "A Farewell", have once again become surreal. One of his masterpieces,"Passion Week", describes the scene of Louis XVIII fleeing to Belgium in March 1815 during Napoleon's "Hundred Days 'Coup". The painter Grigorte protected the royal family as a musketeer. However, he deeply thought about the relationship between art and history along the way, thus clarifying his political attitude. When he arrived at the border between France and Belgium, he returned to Paris to do his own paintings. The novel aims to show that a person has the freedom to choose, which has some similarities with the "free choice" advocated by Sartre. Aragon's life was closely linked to the history and literary history of France in the 20th century. He has made outstanding achievements in poetry, novels and criticism, with more than 100 works. Aragon's political attitude, literary and artistic views, and literary tendencies have all changed several times, but in his own words, he has never left surrealism. Comment: An important French surrealist writer.