Aragon Louis Biography

Louis Aragon, nee Louis-Mari Andriy, fr. Louis-Marie andrieux; October 3, Paris, France - December 24, in the same place - the French poet and prose writer, member of the Goncorov Academy. The figure of the French Communist Party, the winner of the International Lenin Prize “For Strengthening the World between the Peoples” the husband of the French writer and translator Elsa Triola.

He was an illegitimate son of Margarita Tuka, who wrote him down as the adopted son of his mother and stepfather, the political figure Andriyo. Subsequently, he chose a pseudonym Aragon by the name of the Spanish historical region. He studied at the Faculty of Medicine from the year in Paris. He participated in the First World War as a orderly. In the years he entered the Paris group of Dadaists; In the year, together with Andre Breton and Philip Supo, he founded the movement of surrealists.

In the year he joined the French Communist Party and began to actively engage in journalism. In August, he visited the USSR as part of the international brigade of writers who studied the new building of the Socialist Urals, including the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk and Kabakovsk now Serov. He reflected his impressions of the trip in the poem cycle of poems written in hot pursuit “Hurray, Urals!

In the year he married his younger sister Lily Brik, a French writer and translator Elsa Triola, who dedicated many of his poems. During the Second World War, he participated in the resistance movement. In the year he became the winner of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening the World between the Peoples." He popularized Soviet literature in France; He edited the newspaper Les Lettres Franaisses -, which was published with the financial support of the French Communist Party.

In subsequent years, he sharply opposed the authoritarianism of the communist regime in the USSR. He condemned the trials against Soviet writers, in particular the process of Sinyavsky and Daniel in the year sharply protested against the entry of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. He personally turned to L. Brezhnev demanding to free the filmmaker Sergei Parajanov.

Nekrasov turned to Aragon for help, whom the Soviet leadership for the Letnik decided to award the Order of Friendship of Peoples. Having arrived at the Soviet embassy in Paris for the presentation of the award, Aragon told the Soviet ambassador S. the threat to the threat, and Viktor Kondyrev was released "under the pressure of the world community." Elsa met him in the La Kupol cafe and began to stubbornly look for new meetings with him.

Aragon's friend, the leader of the surrealists, the poet Andre Breton told Louis to a friend that this was probably a Russian spy, but Aragon then did not trust the poetic instinct of his friend-world for the first time, and this changed his whole life. Elsa seriously wished to master the fragile, pretty poet and to make him the French Mayakovsky Louis Aragon was an illegitimate son of a diplomat.

He was a bisexual, that is, due to either non -to -specificity, or the breadth of nature loved both men and women. Elsa fell out of a difficult struggle for his presence, since either Aragon went to his boys, his crazy love, the daughter of the wealthy shipowner Nancy Kunard, returned to him, but by the year Elsa, one might say, won. When the news of Mayakovsky’s suicide came, Elsa did not abandon her venture.

She decided - either now, or never: she, walking along the Lilin's Traces, will give herself and France the new Mayakovsky. Of course, the CPSU B, GPU, sister Lily and her husband Osia, who once helped Mayakovsky to become the leader - all of them had to help Elsa together in achieving her goal, but to begin with, the weakness of Aragon himself had to realize the meaning of the death of a little familiar Mayakovsky and properly mourn her.

More recently, Elsa’s remarkable letter, written after the death of the Mayakovsky sister in Moscow, was devoted recently. Elsa writes that Aragon was unlawed about Mayakovsky, but then his grandmother, his mother’s mother, suddenly died, and this idiot is, that is, Aragon’s beloved mother, who always presented his sister hysteria because of the death of some nasty old woman.

The thin man was Elsa at the end of the year Elsa and Mayakovsky moved to Moscow to Lily and Osa, on which there was now all hope. The poet can be understood. The poet needs a support not to mention the feeder. The poet must rely on the monarch, on the philanthropist, at worst, to the party - otherwise the poet is abyss. The Bolshevik party and the Comintern rightly seemed to many writers and even artists such a support.

All kinds of avant -garde groups were especially searched for by their protection and supports, proving parties that they are the real and devoted, so the French surrealists did not discover America here. The associate of Mayakovsky M. Levidov wrote: “Italian futurism puts a bet on a strong one. Now fascism seems to be strong. Tomorrow this is strong from Moscow Lily and Osia sent Parisian applicants with J.

Sadul to the Congress of Revolutionary writers in Kharkov where they, by the way, did not delegate them.In his late novel, Hemingway gave one of the heroes, the cunning chief commissar, the name Kharkov, so that Hemingway understood something about Kharkov, where the association of reinforced avisor under the Comintern was created. Aragon spoke at the Congress, mumbled something there about the readiness of the surrealists to serve the Bolsheviks, as well as about the new syntax as the basis of the revolution, but this was all pure love.

Upon returning to Moscow, the time came to pay on the account - for a free dining room feeding, and for the Kharkov drink, and for the revolution. Aragon and Sadul were allowed to sign paper about repentance and renunciation.

They repented that they did not subordinate all their literary work to control the party. That they were not activists of the party. What they allowed themselves in the presence of non-communists to express some words of criticism addressed to Comrade Barbus and other comrades. That they allowed themselves to criticize something printed in the party press.

In addition, they had to renounce the scriptures of the surrealists. Refuse from the intangible ideology of Freudianism. And also at the same time from the unfamiliar Trotskyism, from social democracy and counter-revolution. They pledged all their work to now subordinate the party’s control. In general, Aragon renounced friends. But for the place of the main proletarian poet, he still had to fight for a long time.

There were competitors. Andre Malro tore the metal, proving that he was the main Bolshevik. But Aragon and Elsa had experienced consultants and powerful defenders Osia, Lily, and, therefore, Agranych. Aragon almost became the French Mayakovsky then. Lily introduced him to friends from the GPU, which, like everything else in the country of Soviets, really liked the free -loving Parisian avant -garde.

A little later, Comrade Ehrenburg announced in Litgazet that surrealists are sexual perverts according to Khrushchev, “fagots”, but back to Moscow explained that with sex I need to tie up, I ask the GPU to prepare the end of the world, who are pursued and killed, turn to the GPU LLC, it is against the Pope of Roman and all enemies. Glory to the GPU but even worse than this, he, perhaps, did not write either.

Aragon imitated everything Mayakovskoye, up to the hypocrisy. When, having gotten gloating, how do poets rich in the party? But it was not a mill, but a medieval estate of the Roan-Roshfors, more than five hectares of forest and the river bank. Remember Mayakovskoye when buying a car - “I did not accumulate the lines“ appearing in Fezandry, the poet Aragon now poured his party voice of the Comintern courses, he also visited, which, probably, turned out to be conspiracy in the choir, singing about the paradise Soviet life of a sample of the year.

The Count Ignatiev was still singing. However, after all, Mayakovsky, when he was still in Fezandry and Paris, according to Elsa, considered his duty to be his duty? But who needed to prove this in Fezandry? Count Caroli? His wife-communist? Komsomolskaya Pravda Mari-Claude? Member of the Central Committee Paul? Of course not. It was necessary to prove to those who were considered right, because they fled from Bolshevik violence.

Those whom the Red Count Caroli called the Fezandry guests “white” as we said in childhood - “Belyaks”, “White Guards”, “White Emigrators”. It’s not that there were a lot of “white” bourgeois and aristocrats, in this red estate. Well, there was a friend of Salome, Prince Svyatopolk-Mirsky, so he was already reder than cancer and even entered the Communist Party. And so there were some artists, intelligent ladies, singers, one composer.

On the other hand, since all these innocent people were fled from the red, from the most just regime in the world and the current "steps of fathoms", which means that they were still a little white. Here, let's say, Sasha Yakovlev. Although Tatyana called him an anti -Soviet, as his niece called him in old age, he was not the anti -Soviet at that time no longer exhibited at exhibitions in Moscow, they did not welcome the leader in Paris, but he was a defective.

Or, let's say, composer Sergei Prokofiev, of course, as any emigrants, they were not alien to nostalgic regrets and thoughts on the recklessness of their act. La Fezandri gave these regrets and these thoughts to be constant food. One Mayakovsky what was worth an agent of influence!