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...Elsa Triolet: Left-Wing Writer And Heroine for the French Resistance--by Helena Lewis, Bunting fellow '84-'85. Bunting Institute, Colloquium Room, 34 Concord Ave. For more information, call...
...modern poets have got so worked up over their women as Louis Aragon and Vladimir Mayakovsky. For nearly 40 years the poet laureate of the French Communist Party rhapsodized in verse over Les Yeux d'Elsa and other cherished features of his wife Elsa Triolet. Mayakovsky, the bard of the Bolshevik Revolution, was no less attentive to his mistress Lili Brik, though his poems were scarcely as complimentary as Aragon's. Lili was Elsa's older sister, and the series of stunning lyrics that Mayakovsky dedicated to her in the 1910s and 1920s agonized over her indifference...
...WHITE CHARGER (345 pp.)-Elsa Triolet-Rinehart...
...Elsa Triolet is the wife of Poet Louis Aragon, one of whose recent volumes was named The Eyes of Elsa. In 1944, she won France's Prix Goncourt with her short stories; but readers are not likely to find her new book a prizewinner...
...types of literature: the brief familiar essay, from 500 to 1000 words, the informal personal sketch, from 300 to 600 words, the tabloid book review, from 50 to 100 words, the humorous or satirical sketch, from 100 to 300 words, the sonnet, 14 lines, the rondeau, 13 lines, the triolet, 8 lines, humorous verse, not more than 20 lines and not free verse...