Elsa's eyes

1Paris in the 1920s belongs to passion and innocence. Hemingway recalled Paris in one of his books and said: If you are lucky enough to spend your youth in Paris, then wherever you go in the future, Paris will be in your heart. ...

Aragon and Elsa met at the Paris Lovers Bar in 1928. Elsa was the girlfriend of the former Soviet poet Mayakovski. She accompanied Mayakovski to visit Paris, and at the same time translated for Mayakovski, who didn't speak a word of French. Aragon has just come out of a love that almost ruined him. He fell madly in love with Nancy, a beautiful young English aristocratic woman. Nancy, rich, rich, free and independent, can spend money in any hotel or Atlantic cruise ship, and no man can hold her firmly. When Aragorn accompanied Nancy to Venice, Nancy left him alone in the hotel and went out on a date with a pianist she just met. Aragon, in pain, thought of suicide, threw himself into the canal and took sleeping pills, but failed. In the end, she returned to Paris, scarred all over.

At the welcoming banquet held by Aragon for Mayakovski, Aragon had another worry. His best friend Thirion was lovelorn and in a bad mood, so he ran to the balcony alone. Aragon was afraid that he would do something stupid, so he had to stay with him all the time. Elsa, who lost her master, found them on the balcony. She wore a natural sheepskin hat and a fur coat, and was petite. Soon, Thirion felt her redundancy and went downstairs. When Aragorn and Elsa both appeared in the hall, they danced the lover's dance happily.

On that day, Aragon wrote this poem: The day I met you was the beginning of my life.

Before that, Aragon was a complete "madman". He and his friends who are also crazy about art have done a lot of ridiculous things. They smashed a group of hotels occupied by the middle class and attacked speakers and listeners with different artistic ideas. His early surrealist poems are full of despair and depravity.

"You held out your hands and stopped me from running on the crazy road." Aragon wrote. Elsa pulled Aragon back from the brink of pain and death.

What fascinated Aragon was Elsa's eyes. In Aragon's famous love poem Elsa's Eyes, Aragon described its beauty in this way: no wind blows away the sadness of the blue sky/your tearful eyes are brighter than it/your eyes are even jealous of the clear sky after the rain. In another war love poem, Aragon interprets the meaning of Elsa's eyes to him like this: In your eyes,

Aragon broke away from his former companions and concentrated on writing. His poems turned to the field of love because of lovers. On the title page of those beautiful poems, it says: Dedicated to elsa, without whom I can accomplish nothing.

Their love has ups and downs. Shortly after they met, Elsa negotiated with a German dancer who had a brief love with Aragon in the same lover's hotel. Five minutes later, the other party announced her withdrawal because she thought Elsa's love for Aragon was "more enthusiastic". After they got married, these troubles continued, but they never ruined their marriage. Just like after they lived together for 40 years, when Elsa died, Aragon hung a huge photo of Elsa in their apartment and wrote: My little girl, whether it is good or bad, whether it is rain or wind, our books will bind us together.

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Text/Mayakovski

I am strong,

They may need me.

If they order me:

"Desperate!"

Your name

Will condense into blood.

On my lips shattered by shells.

Last name.

Or in the distance.

On the desolate grassland along the coast of the Arctic Ocean,

In the quarrel between the northern wind and the river,

I'll carve Lily's name on my cufflinks,

I will kiss this handcuff chain in the darkness of the prison.

(Mayakovski dedicated to Lilia)

The first story is extraordinary love.

I am the cloud in pants.

19 15 One day, Mayakovski leaned against the doorframe and recited the long poem "Clouds in Pants" to his girlfriend Eliza. The most shocking thing was Eliza's sister Lilia, who stared into the distance and said nothing. From that day on, Mayakovski and Lilia began their love for fifteen years. Mayakovski desperately fell in love with her and dedicated all the poems in his life to her.

Lilia is elegant, smart and charming. She is two years older than Mayakovski and is already Blick's wife. Once, the three of them kept a strange and harmonious relationship and went to the theater for a holiday together.

Since 1925, Mayakovski and Lilia have gradually changed from lovers to confidants who respect each other. Mayakovski tried to resonate with other women. In Paris, Mayakovski fell in love with tatiana. Before returning home, Mayakovski and tatyana agreed to meet again next summer. In the process of communication, Mayakovski proposed to tatiana to end his wandering life. When he was determined to change his personal life, he was hit by fate and the authorities refused to let him go abroad.

The beautiful life turned into a rose bubble, and the miserable Mayakovski met the actress Veronica, and they fell in love for eleven months. Unfortunately, Veronica is also a married woman and does not belong to Mayakovski. Mayakovski desperately needs love to save his desperate life. He explicitly asks Veronica to give up everything and live with herself.

1930 On April 4th, Mayakovski called Veronica to make one last effort. Veronica's answer is still: "I love you and will definitely live with you in the future, but I respect my husband." I can't leave without saying goodbye and I can't leave the theater forever. "

Mayakovski quietly kissed her goodbye. When Veronica walked out of the room, there was a gunshot in the room. The 37-year-old outstanding Russian poet solved himself neatly. He scribbled in his suicide note that the boat of love was broken by daily life, and my life and I have made it clear, so there is no need to mention it again. Pain, misfortune, and mutual mistakes. I wish you happiness.

Although Mayakovski had countless lovers in his life, he once said that he only loved Lilia. Probably the real prodigal son is like this. He looks bohemian, but he can't extricate himself from the depths of the ocean. He listed Lilia as his family in his will.

Many years after Mayakovski's death, the fate of his Lilia was ups and downs. First, she married primakov, a famous Soviet general, and primakov became the army commander in 1935. Two years later, she was killed in the cleaning movement, and Lilia married Kadanyan. 1978, Lilia, who is old, committed suicide by taking poison.

When she was young, she refused to marry Mayakovski. She said, "If I marry him and have children for him, then he may find everything boring and he will stop writing poems for me. And writing poetry is the most important thing for him, and poetry is his life ... "

Maybe Lilia is right. If Mayakovski gets worldly happiness, then Russia will have an ordinary couple and lose a talented poet.

Chapter III [Preface]

I can't listen without you.

When I looked down the path, I saw you coming towards me.

Through the hazy mist

I saw your lovely wrinkled pants coming towards me.

Without you, dear, dearest,

I can't see, hear, feel, think or even live.

Without you, I feel like begging for mercy from the storm.

Fear is like a face being destroyed or getting old.

I can't express how much I love you.

I'll think you know nothing about all this and die.

Come on, come to me, I can't live without you.

If you leave with someone else, it makes me hungry and sad.

I know I still want you.

(Excerpted from Zeldia's love letter to Fitzgerald)

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Leave me the waltz.

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A materially spoiled southern American girl whose madness and selfishness ruined her husband, the talented writer Fitzgerald, has long been Zeldia's bad comment.

Who knows, if there were no Zeldia, there would be a writer named Fitzgerald and the great Gatsby.

Zeldia grew up in a wealthy family, his father was a judge, and he blindly indulged little Zeldia. At the age of six, Zeldia climbed onto the roof of his house and called the fire station to say that there was a fire. The location is her home. Look at the mess of fire engines, neighbors and police below. Zeldia thinks this game is too interesting.

Until 18 years old, Zeldia was still interested in practical jokes. 18-year-old Zeldia, blonde and fair-skinned, a wild girl, fell in love with a pilot in a nearby military camp. She instructed them to do aerobatics on the roof of her house again and again. The roar made the neighbors unbearable and complained angrily to the military camp leaders.

Captain Fitzgerald met Zeldia in this year. At the country club dance, he left his head and walked to Zeldia. She was surrounded by officers and college students-they were proud to talk to her or dance with her-and introduced themselves shyly. "It's like sticking your nose to the mirror and staring at your eyes." After a waltz, Zeldia found his own kind, and they fell in love.

Captain Fitzgerald bravely proposed to Zeldia. Zeldia simply replied: Marry me? Simple, you want to get ahead, have money, have no money and have no name.

Fitzgerald was born in a poor middle-class family. To get a noble, mysterious and wild Zeldia, he has only one way: to write a best-selling novel and change his life. He retired and put all his bets on his novel. Before that, he refused to revise the completed novel Paradise on Earth. While receiving numerous rejection letters, he also received an ultimatum from Zeldia to break up.

Half a year later, the revised Paradise on Earth was a great success, and American youth competed to imitate the behavior of the protagonist in the book. Fitzgerald finally became a man with money in his pocket.

Zeldia accepted him this time and got married in April 1920. Fitzgerald is 24 and Zeldia is 20.

In the prosperous 1920s, Fitzgerald and Zeldia were the most striking couple. They spent 30,000 dollars a year, equivalent to millions now. They traveled all over Europe, spending money like water. They often jump into the fountain in the square in full view, or lie on the roof of taxis. They made a scene in the hotel and were expelled by the police. They run fast in the streets of the city at midnight. When all this was not enough to satisfy the thrill-seeking mind, Zeldia was addicted to drugs, while Fitzgerald was addicted to drinking.

They need Fitzgerald to continue writing to support the huge expenses. On the other hand, Zeldia's rival in love is Fitzgerald's literary dream. When Fitzgerald was obsessed with writing, Zeldia stubbornly dragged him to a cocktail party, making him unconscious, and then gave a smug smile. Hemingway once described Zeldia's crazy love: Vultures are not allowed to share food. Hemingway firmly believed that Fitzgerald had no great works after The Great Gatsby, because Zeldia's madness destroyed him.

Some critics believe that Zeldia can be found in the heroines in most of Fitzgerald's novels, and Fitzgerald also uses a lot of their daily communication and life materials in his novels. Fitzgerald is not Fitzgerald without Zeldia.

They tortured and quarreled with each other, like a pair of enemies. After being sad and painful, they made up again, and they were inseparable.

1934, Zeldia suffered from serious mental illness, and they separated. The era of the golden couple is over, but the marriage continues. They exchanged letters, and Fitzgerald affectionately called Zeldia "my patient".

Six years later, Fitzgerald died of a heart attack caused by alcoholism, and the scene was quite miserable. Eight years later, in a big fire, Zeldia was burned to death on the top floor of a mental hospital, leaving only a dark appearance. They are buried together, maybe only in this way will they meet every day and stop quarreling. On their tombstones, the last sentence of "The Great Gatsby" is engraved: We move on, sail against the current, and are constantly pushed back until we go back to the past.

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