"Les aventures de Télémaque" by Aragon is a novel published in 1922. This Dadaist pastiche reimagines Fénelon's classical work through a radical lens, blending eighteenth-century adventure with avant-garde experimentation. Following Telemachus and Mentor on the island of Ogygia, Aragon fractures the original's quest for virtue into a chaotic, self-referential narrative punctuated by manifestos, anachronisms, and typographical disruptions. The work questions originality itself, incorporating uncredited borrowings and autobiographical elements while chronicling the author's experience during Paris's Dada movement. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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