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Elsa Triolet

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Elsa Triolet (Elsa Blick) , c.1896-1970, Russian-French author, b. Moscow. In 1928 she married the French writer Louis Aragon . Her novels often combine a sweeping Russian grandeur with acute observations of French life. They include Le cheval blanc (1943; tr. The White Charger, 1946), Personne ne m'aime [nobody loves me] (1946), Les Fantômes armées [the phantom armies] (1946), and L'Inspecteur des ruines (1948; tr. The Inspector of Ruins, 1953). Among her collections of stories is Le Premier Accroc du coûte deux cents francs (1945; tr. A Fine... Read more

Louis Aragon
...viable than Breton's. He married Elsa Triolet, the sister-in-law of the Russian...sang of his love for his wife, Elsa. Just as he rejoined, in the novel...1962). See also Adareth, Max. Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon: An Introduction... Read more

Louis Aragon
...include Le Crève-coeur (1941), war poems; the series of love poems to his wife, the novelist Triolet : Les Yeux d'Elsa (1954), Elsa (1959), and Le Fou d'Elsa (1963); and Les Chambres (1969). Bibliography: See Louis Aragon, Poet of the French Resistance... Read more

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	Aragon, Elsa Triolet: Love and Politics in the Cold War.(Louis Aragon)(Critical Essay) ; ...conference was held on Aragon, Elsa Triolet: Love and Politics in the time...even more true of his wife, writer Elsa Triolet (1896-1970), born Elsa Kagan, to...into a staunch Communist militant. Elsa Triolet, who wrote most of her work in... Read more
	L'artiste dans la tourmente de l'histoire: le monument d'Elsa Triolet et La Semaine sainte d'Aragon.(French political history in the works of Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon)(text in French)(Critical Essay) ; ...destalinisation: Le Monument d'Elsa Triolet ecrit et publie en 1957, La Semaine...propre situation de createurs , Elsa Triolet et Aragon choisissent pour personnages...la concision caracteristique d'Elsa Triolet opposee a la luxuriance de l'ecriture... Read more
	Du Cheval roux au Rendez-vous des etrangers d'Elsa Triolet: vision de l'Amerique au temps de la guerre froide.(American politics and Cold war in the poetry of Louis Aragon)(Critical Essay) ; En 1969, dans La Mise en mots, Elsa Triolet declarait que son sentier de la...proches du parti communiste, mais Elsa Triolet va plus avant dans son accusation...la defense de l'Occident. Pour Elsa Triolet obsedee par la persistance de la... Read more
	Huguette Bouchardeau: Elsa Triolet: Ecrivain. ; ...particularly so in the case of Elsa Triolet, known primarily as...Bouchardeau seeks to assure Triolet her rightful place...of French letters. Elsa Kagan was born in Moscow...older sister Lili Brik, Elsa married a Frenchman, Andre Triolet, and left Russia with... Read more
	Behind their men: French muses. (Elsa Triolet was the muse for her husband Louis Aragon's poetry; Simone de Beauvoir and Clara Malraux were other famous muses)(Brief Article) ; ...love poets in France-and his wife, Elsa Triolet, a Russian-born novelist, the last...also a political comrade. Although Elsa Triolet never actually joined the French...rolled into Prague. Encouraged by Elsa Triolet, he had also opened the pages of... Read more
	Couple royal, couple ambigu.(criticism and interpretation of Louis Aragon's poetry)(text in French)(Critical Essay) ; ...apres lui. Le couple Aragon--Triolet dura de novembre 1928 a la mort d'Elsa le 16 juin 1970. Et si chacun...pendant la guerre : Les yeux d'Elsa (1942) confondus avec ceux...qui n'etait pas contestable. Elsa, qui aimait repeter qu'elle...maitresse en titre du poete. Elsa Kagan etait la fille ... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...correspondence with Aragon and Aragon's Russian-born companion Elsa Triolet extends from 1920 to 1964 and comprises 139 letters. Those...lettre que je vous ecris. But immediately afterward (July 1) Elsa beats her breast, pleading that she treasures nos rapports... Read more
	Who's reading whom ; ...of the Left - which have impressed me a great deal. Elsa Triolet's Two Hundred Francs Fine (Virago) takes its title from the Maquis code for the D Day landing. Triolet, who was a sister of Lily Brink, spent the war in the... Read more
	L'amour, la politique: terrible loi de vivre double.(love and politics in the poetry of Louis Aragon)(text in French)(Critical Essay) ; ...et d'autres depreciatives ou qui font porter sur Aragon et Elsa Triolet un lourd soupcon. Je tenterai evidemment moi-meme de defendre...textes comme Les Communistes, La Semaine sainte ou Le Fou d'Elsa ... Son orageuse existence est une longue bataille, bataille... Read more
	Aragon, l'homme au gant.(criticism and interpretation of French author Louis Aragon)(text in French)(Critical Essay) ; ...de loin a un colloque consacre a Elsa Triolet ou Louis Aragon ? J'ai rencontre...connaitre. Executeur testamentaire d'Elsa Triolet et de Louis Aragon, ma mission...oeuvres completes d'Aragon et d'Elsa Triolet soit aujourd'hui facile tant les... Read more

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