Louis ARAGON – War Poem – “I await his letter at dusk”.

Louis ARAGON (1897-1982)

Autograph poem – I await his letter at dusk.

One and a half pages in quarto. Typographer's pencil.

[1939]

A remarkable manuscript of his poem " I await her letter at Twilight ," published in the collection "Le Crève-cœur" in 1941. From hours of war and resistance tinged with the love of Elsa Triolet, Aragon delivers, through these verses, the powerful expression of the melancholy that is part of this "poetry of waiting" typical of wartime.

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I await his letter at dusk

Under a creton sky

Pompadour and how

A small car

Navigate

And the echo lies

And what is this song that he is intoning?

Evening in the Sleeping Wood

In the monotonous park

Where a regiment dreams

Who in the shadows confines

At the forefront of beautiful autumn

How many hours were wasted

War in Crouy-sur-Ourcq

They die badly, and you are

My soul and my vulture

Fogging truck

Melancholy love

Who follows the avenue and

Master Captain

Even if it means going to the clouds

The disturbed earth

Do you see my mistress there?

Sad, sad, and dreamy

And is this gilding

Treasure often bitten

His earthly hairstyle

What is she telling me, O wind?

What did she tell me? Stay

Stay here as before

The battles of the east

The postman said nothing

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Heartbreak was written by Aragon between October 1939 and October 1940. It contains twenty-two poems in addition to the essay "Rhyme" (La Rime) from 1940 , which serves as the preface to the collection. The work was published by Gallimard in 1941 in the Métamorphoses series, and then in 1942 in the Blanche series.