Louis ARAGON - Elsa TRIOLET - Signed autograph correspondence
Louis ARAGON (1897-1982) and Elsa TRIOLET (1896-1970).
Correspondence to Léon Moussinac and his wife, Jeanne Lods. 2 LAS and an autograph poem signed by Aragon and 12 LAS by Elsa Triolet, two of which were co-written by Aragon, 1941-1969. 25 in-4 pages
and 6 in-8 pages.
Beautiful correspondence of a mythical couple of literature, where artistic remarks and domestic questions alternate.
During the war years, the poet and his wife took refuge in Nice. In May 1941, writing to his "dear children", following a letter begun by Elsa, Aragon rejoiced at a good news arrival by telegram [the
release of Mousssinac, member of the PCF since 1924, interned some months in 1940 "for communist propaganda"?] and hopes to see them very soon: "We have so much to say to each other with these
stories of poetry and literature, the Alexandrian verses, the octosyllable, the rare undecasyllable! and poetic licenses (I am full of bold thoughts on hiatus and diérèse, I wonder if I will not
write them, although I refused to give a lecture on poetry). Recently, I got a lot of passion for Thibault de Champagne, King of Navarre and for Chrétien de Troyes… ". He is amused by Edmond Jaloux's
encouragement to him, which appeared in Les Documents français.
On June 5, Aragon spoke to his comrade about his article to appear in the review Fontaine, "The lesson of Riberac or the French Europe", and praised the talent of a young poet with brilliant
beginnings, Jacques d'Aymé [pseudonym by Moussinac]. While Elsa writes in the 'ghost genre' her new novel is a bit broken, "I'm not very happy with myself. In a third letter, Aragon asks his friend
for a date to talk to him about a matter which concerns him personally but which is also of general interest.
The correspondence continues from the hand of Elsa who gives news of their respective work, especially during the summer of 1949, in a house loaned by the Moussinac couple. "Louis is working on his
novel", while she translates Mayakovsky, a real Chinese puzzle. On August 14, Aragon adds a few lines to Elsa's letter to specify that he has finished his book. The following September, the couple is
preparing to leave for Moscow, via Prague.
"Louis writes, writes, writes. Not funny things. He is in the midst of the trials "(July 5, 1961). In 1963, they travel, as tourists, to Amsterdam, a strange country where the big bourgeois do not
worry about women who expose themselves behind windows, in the port district. The following year, staying at the Baden-Baden sanatorium, Elsa is saddened by the death of their communist comrades,
Maurice Thorez and Octave Rabaté.
- Autograph poem, dated March 1954. Sonnet of fidelity "to Léon Moussinac, Quercinois", published in the n ° 44 of the review Make Infinity enter.
"So you've been traveling for thirty years
Without ever forgetting the rights of the horizon
Despite the pretenses, the wars, the prisons
Carrying your young love through your age
[…]
Just like your morning like the evening of today
Your star is the same and you are the one driving
As in the past, admire Potemkin ".
The last line is an allusion to the action carried out by Léon Moussinac within the Ciné-Club de France, which in November 1926 allowed the screening in Paris of Eisenstein's film, Le Cuirassé
Potemkine.
Writer, poet, historian and film critic, Léon Moussinac (1890-1964) was with Aragon one of the co-founders of the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, the director of the magazine
Regards and one of the creators of the Federation of Workers Theater of France. Engaged in the Resistance, after the war he directed the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC), from
1947 to 1949, and from 1946 to 1959, the National School of Decorative Arts (ENSAD).
Correspondence to Léon Moussinac and his wife, Jeanne Lods. 2 LAS and an autograph poem signed by Aragon and 12 LAS by Elsa Triolet, two of which were co-written by Aragon, 1941-1969. 25 in-4 pages
and 6 in-8 pages.
Beautiful correspondence of a mythical couple of literature, where artistic remarks and domestic questions alternate.
During the war years, the poet and his wife took refuge in Nice. In May 1941, writing to his "dear children", following a letter begun by Elsa, Aragon rejoiced at a good news arrival by telegram [the
release of Mousssinac, member of the PCF since 1924, interned some months in 1940 "for communist propaganda"?] and hopes to see them very soon: "We have so much to say to each other with these
stories of poetry and literature, the Alexandrian verses, the octosyllable, the rare undecasyllable! and poetic licenses (I am full of bold thoughts on hiatus and diérèse, I wonder if I will not
write them, although I refused to give a lecture on poetry). Recently, I got a lot of passion for Thibault de Champagne, King of Navarre and for Chrétien de Troyes… ". He is amused by Edmond Jaloux's
encouragement to him, which appeared in Les Documents français.
On June 5, Aragon spoke to his comrade about his article to appear in the review Fontaine, "The lesson of Riberac or the French Europe", and praised the talent of a young poet with brilliant
beginnings, Jacques d'Aymé [pseudonym by Moussinac]. While Elsa writes in the 'ghost genre' her new novel is a bit broken, "I'm not very happy with myself. In a third letter, Aragon asks his friend
for a date to talk to him about a matter which concerns him personally but which is also of general interest.
The correspondence continues from the hand of Elsa who gives news of their respective work, especially during the summer of 1949, in a house loaned by the Moussinac couple. "Louis is working on his
novel", while she translates Mayakovsky, a real Chinese puzzle. On August 14, Aragon adds a few lines to Elsa's letter to specify that he has finished his book. The following September, the couple is
preparing to leave for Moscow, via Prague.
"Louis writes, writes, writes. Not funny things. He is in the midst of the trials "(July 5, 1961). In 1963, they travel, as tourists, to Amsterdam, a strange country where the big bourgeois do not
worry about women who expose themselves behind windows, in the port district. The following year, staying at the Baden-Baden sanatorium, Elsa is saddened by the death of their communist comrades,
Maurice Thorez and Octave Rabaté.
- Autograph poem, dated March 1954. Sonnet of fidelity "to Léon Moussinac, Quercinois", published in the n ° 44 of the review Make Infinity enter.
"So you've been traveling for thirty years
Without ever forgetting the rights of the horizon
Despite the pretenses, the wars, the prisons
Carrying your young love through your age
[…]
Just like your morning like the evening of today
Your star is the same and you are the one driving
As in the past, admire Potemkin ".
The last line is an allusion to the action carried out by Léon Moussinac within the Ciné-Club de France, which in November 1926 allowed the screening in Paris of Eisenstein's film, Le Cuirassé
Potemkine.
Writer, poet, historian and film critic, Léon Moussinac (1890-1964) was with Aragon one of the co-founders of the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, the director of the magazine
Regards and one of the creators of the Federation of Workers Theater of France. Engaged in the Resistance, after the war he directed the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC), from
1947 to 1949, and from 1946 to 1959, the National School of Decorative Arts (ENSAD).
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