Lot n° 64
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ELSA TRIOLET
5 L.A.S. "Elisabeth", and one incomplete from the beginning, signed "E", 1943-1944, to Pierre SEGHERS and his companion Anne; 16 pages in-4 or in-8.
These letters are written in clandestinity, when Aragon and Elsa Triolet took refuge, from July 1943 to September 1944 in Saint-Donat in the Drôme, at Pierre Bret's house, under the names of Lucien and Elisabeth Andrieux. This stay was interspersed with visits to Paris.
August 9. They had lunch on the grass: "We had a piece of meat grilled on the coals, potatoes, tea [] My husband just ate and collected wood for the fire. In a postscript, Aragon, who signed "Lucien", recalled the "little family dinner" planned for September 14. - Thursday, November 11: about the Myth of Baroness Melanie: "Why did you have "Melanie" composed in such small characters? On her return to Paris she did not know where they were going to stay: "A man alone is always easier to fit in, but when I am not there, my man alone does not eat, does not shave, not to mention the woolen socks to bring back, and various other questions, cards, tobacco, etc." She is reading Le Châtillon, a book about the life of a young woman. She is reading Le Chien de pique by Seghers "as one would read memoirs. I like it. Louis intends to do a review of Le Chien. - Wednesday. "The rage I have against the crowd to whom understanding only comes when they themselves are the refugees, the victims, the deported, separated, amputated, humiliated and so on, this rage turns against you. The head elsewhere, like everyone else, it seems that the more monstrous the times are and the more you are possessed of a stunt frivolity! [] If it is that life opens for you, you play with misfortune and misfortune We love you for the best of yourself [] for the heart, the modesty, the generosity Men change, you could well become hard, satisfied with you, and greedy, not to be you any more, what " - December 6 [for January] 44. Warm, tender and fervent" wishes. They "have been celebrating the New Year in a big way. I'm not back yet! A prolonged hangover" She finishes her story, but is not yet finished - June 24. "I think the horse will have a hard time finishing. And we're all a little bit like horses. "It's normal" the redheaded doctor would say, and he'd be right" [Le Cheval roux, which she was working on, was not published until 1953]. She comes to her differences with Jean: "He hates my fellow men with all the perfidy of which he is capable. Organic hatred, corrected from time to time by circumstances, reasoning, and all this affects me much more as a symptom and glimpse of the future than the non-publication of a story. I also fear the poison that John distills and that this idea that would not have come to anyone will spread. It is like slander, there is no difference, no cure. I will do my best not to let my husband go and explain about it. What madness!"... - The incomplete letter shows her in despair: "I remain alone, almost old, having spent all my energy defending myself and convinced by Lucien to the end that I can do nothing, that I am incapable. I no longer have the courage that I had in 37-38, to start writing precisely because Lucien prevented me from doing so.
We join 8 letters addressed to Anne Bedouin, among which 2 by Louis JOU and 2 by Eugène CANSELIET.
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