by Louis Aragon · Seghers · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782232121623
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«Les Yeux d'Elsa» is Louis Aragon's poetry collection published by Seghers in paperback (157 pages, in French).
Written during the Second World War, the collection brings together twenty-one poems dedicated to Elsa Triolet, the author's wife and muse, and connects with the lyricism of the Provençal troubadours. Between love, war and resistance, Aragon turns the beloved woman into a symbol of France and its culture in the face of Nazi occupation.
The collection was originally published in 1942; the present edition is from 1996. Aragon wrote it in the unoccupied zone of southeastern France.
For readers of twentieth-century French poetry and those who want to discover the work of Louis Aragon.
Louis Aragon was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. After 1959, he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
