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Les Chambres by Louis Aragon, trans. John Manson

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First published in 1969, Les Chambres was Aragon’s last collection. Subtitled poème du temps qui ne passe pas, it is a beautiful and melancholy meditation on time, age and love, a last gift to his wife Elsa Triolet who died the following year: ‘C’est le dernier cadeau que j’ai fait à Elsa, histoire d’avouer que tout entre nous n’a pas été si ensoleillé qu’on se plaisait, qu’on se plaît à le croire, qu’il y a eu entre nous des journées comme celle-là par exemple où je t’avais perdue, dont il est question dans Les Chambres. Cette phrase tourne sur elle-même. Ainsi la vie et la mémoire.’

Front cover: Boris Taslitzky, Louis Aragon et Elsa Triolet, 1955, oil on canvas, copyright the Taslitzky estate, reproduced by permission of Évelyne Taslitzky.

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