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The Adventures of Telemachus

by Louis Aragon · 1922

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Published in 1922 and modeled on Finelon's seventeenth-century epic of the same name, Aragon's work parodies its heroic models, didacticism, psychological stability, and descriptive and narrative balance.

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1920s1920sMore like thisLess of this
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philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 144 pages

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