7 avenue elsa triolet biography

French novelist, short-story writer, Communist sympathizer, and member of the French Resistance who was awarded the Prix Goncourt in Name variations: Mme Aragon. Elsa Triolet was a Russian, a Jew, and an ardent, lifelong supporter of Communism. She was an independent, seemingly innocent, promiscuous, and elusive woman who inhabited two worlds, her beloved Russia and her adopted country, France.

7 avenue elsa triolet biography: The French author Elsa Triolet (–),

Ever aware that she was an outsider, an alien, in France, Triolet realized: "To be a foreigner is not a question of a passport, it is to feel unwelcome. As she related in Putting into Words : "I have a husband who is a Communist. And the blame lies with me that he is a Communist. I am a tool of the Soviets…. I am a lady and a slut….

I am a moralist and a frivolous being…. I am the muse and the curse of the poet. I am beautiful and I am repulsive.