Editing Louis Aragon (section)

=== Return to surrealism and death===

Free from both his marital and editorial responsibilities (having ended publication of ''[[Les Lettres Françaises]]'' – ''[[L'Humanité]]''{{'}}s literary supplement – in 1972), Aragon was free to return to his surrealist roots. During the last ten years of his life, he published at least two further novels: ''[[:fr:Henri Matisse, roman|Henri Matisse Roman]]'' and ''Les Adieux''.

Aragon died on 24 December 1982, his friend [[Jean Ristat]] sitting up with him. He was buried in the garden of [[:fr:Moulin de Villeneuve (Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines)|Moulin de Villeneuve]], in his property of [[Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines]], alongside his wife Elsa Triolet.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale Cengage|title=Modern French Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsoUAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-5252-4|page=32}}</ref>

He was and still is a popular poet in France because many of his poems have been set to music and sung by various composers and singers: Lino Léonardi, [[Hélène Martin]], [[Léo Ferré]] (the first one to dedicate an entire LP to Aragon, with his 1961 breakthrough ''[[Les Chansons d'Aragon]]'' album), [[Jean Ferrat]], [[Georges Brassens]], [[Alain Barrière]], [[Isabelle Aubret]], [[Nicole Rieu]], [[:fr:Monique Morelli|Monique Morelli]], [[Marc Ogeret]], [[Marjo Tal]], ''et al.'' Many of his poems set to music by Jean Ferrat have been translated into German by Didier Caesar (alias Dieter Kaiser) and are sung by his Duo.