Les aventures de Télémaque

by Aragon

"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.