Nadja - pg. 55

She is still a young woman and extremely jovial. She continues speaking with a great deal of animation to someone who seems to be a workman of her acquaintance and who listens to her, apparently, with delight. We too engage her in conversation. Extremely cultivated, she has no objection to Nietzsche, and Rimbaud. Quite spontaneously she even mentions the surrealists and Louis Aragon's Paysan de Paris, which she has been unable to finish, the variations on the word Pessimism having thrown her off. All her remarks indicate a great revolutionary faith. Upon my request, she gives me her poem which I had found in the book and a few others as well, all of which I had found in the book and a few others as well, all of which are interesting.

Le Con D’Iréne - Closing

Where the rock's shy foot, where the discouraged plant will no longer spread the seduction of its seed, where the ice-axe strikes only sparks, there I have found my pasture, above the blue kingdom of the flies. I am an animal of the heights. I can't say as much for bread. Let those who search for nourishment bother me no longer with their hideous whispering.

Le Con D’Iréne - Opening

Don't wake me, for God's sake, you bastards, don't wake me, watch out I bite I see red.

IRENE's CUNT
A work attributed to
Louis Aragon
First published anonymously in 1928
This edition published in 1996
by Creation Books
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London EC1, UK
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Copyright Creation Books 1996
Translated by Alexis Lykiard
Translation copyright Alexis Lykiard 1995
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