Aragon was a medical student in 1919 when he met Breton and Soupault. Together they founded a magazine, Littérature, which in 1924 became Révolution surréaliste. He published his first collections (Feu de joie, Le Mouvement perpétuel) soon after, and a group of novels, Anicet ou le Panorama, Les Aventures de Télémaque and Le Paysan de Paris. All his life, went back and forth between poetry and prose. In 1927 he joined the Communist Party and met Elsa Triolet. Traité du Style, which appeared the following year and made fun of automatic writing, was a first step toward a break with Breton that became evident in 1932. He sympathized with the Soviet government, and brought Hourra l’Oural back from Russia in 1934. He wrote a cycle of novels in which he attacked the bourgeoisie (Les Cloches de Bâle, Les Beaux Quartiers, Les Voyageurs de l’Impériale). He was in the Resistance during the German occupation, and published poems clandestinely through the éditions de Minuit (Le Musée Grévin). With Les Yeux d’Elsa, he began an ode to his wife (Le Fou d’Elsa, Il ne m’est Paris que d’Elsa…) that would structure their life together until the death of the author of Roses à crédit in 1970. In addition to the six volumes of Communistes, attesting his faithfulness to a doctrine, even when it was represented by Stalin, and which he never repudiated, he authored Aurélien, Le Roman inachevé, his poetic autobiography, La Semaine sainte, Blanche ou l’Oubli, Henri Matisse, roman and, in 1980, Le Mentir-vrai.