Chapter 57 III Montparnasse, the open city (2)-3

...The result of my persuasive enlightenment is that Morris typed all day, and Vitrak did nothing all day... André Breton One day in 1928, Yoki Fujita was drinking at the White Stork Bar on Brea Street.At the next table a man in a tuxedo smiled at the young woman, much to her annoyance.The man had a strand of hair hanging down his forehead, and was playing with a handful of straw in his hand.Seeing that Yaoji was interested in his tricks, he got up and came to her table to show her his latest surreal game: he connected the already woven grass pieces to form a spider.Then he sprinkled a drop of water on it, and the spider's feet moved.

The man laughed and introduced himself: Robert Desnos. Yaoji was completely indifferent to his set performance. The next day, Yaoji drank an aperitif with Breton, whom he knew a little while dancing in the Montparnasse ballroom.She told him what happened on the first day and confessed to him that Desnos' behavior made her unhappy.Breton immediately called a waiter and asked for paper and pen.He immediately wrote a very stern letter to his fellow Surrealists, criticizing him for not knowing how to treat ladies in taverns.Yaoji tried to stop the maddened Breton, but to no avail, the letter was sent anyway.

A few days later, Yaoji found Desnos in another tavern.She invited him to her table and apologized for telling Breton what had happened that day.But Desnos didn't care.He just came back from Cuba, a free man. Yaoji invited him to have dinner at Fujita's home near Parc Montsouris that night.Thus, a friendship developed between them.A few years later, Yoki Fujita became Yoki Desnos. After Yaoji and Desnos met in the White Stork Bar, Breton wrote the flaming letter to the troubled young man, reflecting the strict control Breton had over his subordinates.Salvador Dali later commented on Breton in his preface to René Crevel's Difficult Death as a man of "integrity and strictness".In short, Breton asked his subordinates to strictly follow his baton at all times.

Breton intervened in many ways.For example, he considers buying and selling paintings (which he and Éluard do) to be a noble act, while journalism is the opposite, and Desnos, Klevel, Su Bo, and many others are due to the work of journalism. In 1944, in New York, Su Bo happened to meet Bronze, who was forced to make a living in journalism in New York. Redon: Pierre Lazarev hired him as a radio announcer. He drew himself a line that he could not cross under any circumstances: he could broadcast anything but about his surreal pope article). On Fountain Street, the music that Masson, Desnos, and regulars of the Negro ballrooms of Castle Street and Blomme Street liked and listened to was rarely or rarely heard.Even if you listen to it occasionally, you must secretly carry Breton.

One creed that Breton never gave up is: pure love is a noble character, while homosexuality is a morally corrupt behavior. Issue 11 of the magazine "Surrealist Revolution" published the presentations of the Surrealists at a round table on a special issue ("How to treat sodomy?").There was nothing wrong with Prevet; the same was held by Caino, who believed that the anti-homosexuality popular among the Surrealists was a prejudice, which he deeply regretted.Perret, Junic and Breton stood up against it, especially Breton.He said that all homosexuals except Sade are "attempting to challenge the tolerance of human nature with spiritual and moral emptiness." [Excerpt from "Reminiscences of Forgotten" by Philip Supper]

This rigor may partly explain the Surrealists' contempt for Cocteau, and Breton's hostility towards Ilya Ehrenburg, who lived in Paris but was loyal to Moscow. The main reason for the French Breton's dissatisfaction with the Russian was that he had lashed out at the Surrealists, not because he constantly changed his tactics to curry favor with the party leadership.Ilya sees the Surrealists as loafers, parasites, concerned almost exclusively with sodomy, the worst of sins.During preparations for the National Congress of the Union of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, Breton met Ehrenburg in Montparnasse, who had come downstairs from his home to the bar to buy cigarettes.He followed him, caught up and slapped him hard several times, but he didn't respond.

The author of the "Surrealist Manifesto" - Breton severely punished those who were unfaithful, no matter whether it was hands or words, or both at the same time, he was merciless.And often when the other party is unprepared, he is caught off guard.For example, when he divorced Simone Breton in 1929, he also regarded greetings to his wife as blasphemy.Some people even speculate that Breton and Pierre Navier fell out, possibly because Navier's girlfriend (future wife) Denise Levi was Simone's cousin. Whoever violates Breton's will, it is inevitable for Breton to sever ties with him.No matter who he cuts off relations with, Breton will definitely have a fierce fight or curse with him.The brutal words and deeds of the Dada School and the later Surrealist School were not only external, they also reaped the consequences themselves.When punishing or expelling members of the organization, the same brutal and brutal methods are often used. (In 1946, Breton published the "Notice of the Reprint of the Surrealist Manifesto (II)", expressing his regret for his "unsuitable irascibility" and "too hasty judgment".)

Su Bo, one of the founders of surrealism and one of the two authors of "Magnetic Field", was also ruthlessly abandoned. This is a harbinger of the ruthless expulsion of many people from the Stalinist family thirty years later.Many intellectuals were expelled from the party at the same time as Su Bo.After being expelled from the party, they all felt like orphans with no one to depend on, no home to return to.After being expelled from the surrealist school related to his fate, Su Bo was once in a state of neurotic depression. The following is Philippe Supo's account of his expulsion: (Supo was summoned to appear in court one night in November 1926. Like the trial of the Parles, the trial was presided over by Breton):

I enter a rather large room.The lights there were dim.I have long realized that, according to the custom, there are many people attending such a trial ceremony, presided over by Breton, assisted by Louis Aragon and Max Morris.Their complaint against me was hostile, even abusive.Little did I imagine that people whom I had considered friends in the past, whom I had tried to help no matter what, would treat me this way.It quickly became clear to me that they had planned it carefully in advance.This time they insisted on humiliating me until they broke me completely.The organizers have absolutely no intention of hearing my defense because they have already made the final decision.I feel that their approach is ridiculous and ridiculous.

[Excerpt from "Reminiscences of Forgotten" by Philip Supper] What are they accusing Philip Subo of?Did not regularly attend the organizational meetings of the Surrealists, worked for some "bourgeois" magazines, wrote some controversial books, engaged in "nonsense literary activities" as a writer, refused to join the Communist Party, smoked compared to the workers Proletarian black cigarettes are more aristocratic British cigarettes. Aalto was fired as well, what are the charges against him?Shameful and unreasonable; metaphysics; "inferiority"; the articles in the third issue of the magazine "Surrealist Revolution" he is responsible for are all "semi-extremely liberal", "semi-mystic" [from Andrei Breton's "Conversation with André Parino"], which may lead the movement in a direction contrary to the intention of its founder.And the founders of the movement were relying on the magazine to combat these tendencies.

Two years later, Aalto staged "Dreams" at the Alfred-Jary Theater, and he became all acts "for the satisfaction of vanity" and "for personal gain" [Excerpt from André Breton The informer of "Surrealist Manifesto II" and Jean-Jacques Povel's "In the Surrealist Manifesto"].The gifted dramatist shrugged his shoulders and laughed off such accusations against him indifferently. Still in 1926, Max Ernst and João Miró were brought to the dock for agreeing to create a set for one of Diaghilev's most conventional plays, Romeo and Juliet.On the day when the play was staged, Breton, Aragon and their disciples came to the theater together, and dropped hundreds of abusive leaflets from the upper floors of the theater, saying that the two artists were tempted by money interests to destroy own reputation.Leiris suddenly unfurled a large banner not far from the stage, which read: "Long live Lautreamont!" Aragon, dressed in fashion and elegance, yelled at Perret and Desnos. The crowd present... Soon their cries were drowned out by the whistles of the gendarmerie.The result was that they were all locked up in a detention center. Then it was De Chirico's turn.People appreciate his early creations very much, but hate his later creations. In March 1928, in order to compete with Leonce Rosenberg, who exhibited new paintings, Breton, against de Chirico's wishes, sent Raymond Caino from de Chirico in Momba Nas's studio took the painter's early paintings and organized a surrealist gallery. On March 11, 1929, another liquidation took place in Castle Street.Not in the house occupied by the original tenants (who have ceded it to the more orthodox Georges Sadour and André Thirion), but in the bar opposite.Breton summoned the entire Surrealist movement there to discuss several major issues: the revolution, the fate of Trotsky under Stalin and what common action should be taken... Some important people who chose not to attend the meeting are: Navier, Aalto, Vitrac, Lambert, Masson, Tiard, Bataille.In view of their "jobs" and their "weird personalities", the Central Committee of Surrealism did not notify the two former tenants of Castle Street, Duamel and Preve, to attend the meeting.Although Man Ray and Tang Juyi were "forgotten", they still attended the meeting. Standing in the dock this time are some newcomers to the movement: Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, René Dormer and Roger Vaillant of the Big Game faction named after the magazine Big Game Accusations of: mysticism; support of Henri Landru (1869-1922), French murderer of ten women and one boy.He was sentenced to death and executed immediately.Instead of supporting Sacco and Wang Zeti, Nicola Sacco et Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists who immigrated to the United States, were born in 1891 and 1888 respectively, were sentenced to death in 1921, and executed in 1927.The charge was to rob a factory in Massachusetts, USA at gunpoint, but no strong evidence was found.The result was a surge of massive demonstrations, which took on even greater proportions in Europe. , so they got the charge of "the abettor of "Big Game" magazine; Roger Vaillant published an article in "Paris Noon" praising Police Chief Sharp.But the praise contained mockery and sarcasm. At the beginning of the article, the police chief was compared to "a grandfather who gave a lot of gifts to his children and grandchildren" (the "children" here obviously refer to foreign guests who came to Paris), and directly Poke the spear dart in the heart of "Our capital's purifier - the police" for the end of the article.Vaillant was a journalist, and he wrote this article, which aroused the rage of the Surrealists. On the second day of the trial of the Grand Game faction, Ribemont-Desagne sent a letter announcing that the Surrealist Fountainists on the Right Bank of the Seine had severed ties with the Surrealism on the Left Bank of the Seine, and that they could no longer tolerate "God" and its followers with such ruthless passion in their trials. In 1930, Breton published the "Manifesto of Surrealism (2)".While reorganizing the movement he led, he reaffirmed his principles while attacking the "cowards, hypocrites and opportunists" who had betrayed the movement and had become corrupt. At that time, people knew that Masson was very jealous of Max Ernst and Picasso. Like Artaud, he also lacked "social abstentionism"; The communist Naville (whose father was very rich) quit quickly, with the aim of promoting himself; there was speculation that Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris would be punished soon after the former started a rival magazine, Documenta Materials, the latter serving as the magazine's editorial secretary, both of whom gave the green light to articles by Desnos, Prevet, Masson, Lambert, and others, traitors of the Surrealist movement. "Manifesto (2)" added elaboration: What Wytrak wrote for the troupe was "full of some very dirty thoughts", and Lambert's writing contained "the usual flattery and coquettishness in literature". Poe is nothing more than a "shameless" "little rat who hangs around a big rat all day long". [Excerpt from André Breton's "Surrealism Manifesto (2)"] In short, Breton's condemnation of his subordinates was comprehensive, and he even spoke indiscriminately, sarcasm and insults to the point where it is impossible to add.Posted by Ribemont-Desagne, Vitrac, Lambert, Maurice, Baron, Leiris, Kenot, Boisfar, Bataille, Desnos and Prevet in response to Breton published a pamphlet entitled "A Dead Body", which launched a powerful counterattack against André Breton.In fact, Breton was only a false brother to some of them, a false pope or bishop to others, a false friend to many, a policeman to all.He is an out-and-out demon who can put certain professional intellectuals to death and send them to prison at any time. In their articles these iconoclasts cite the title A Dead Body adopted by the pamphlet distributed by the Aragon gang in 1924 commemorating the death of Anatole France.They also used the end of Breton's "In Memoriam" essay commemorating the death of Anatole France: "This man deserves to die without a place to die." Dong was furious, his eyes were blood red, and his head was pricked like a needle. Faced with the disintegration of his former believers, Breton was not reconciled, and he still worked hard to unite his old and new believers around him.In order to turn his ideal into reality, there must be a clear goal.He finally found this goal-to make the final charge to Montparnasse.Lilac Garden has declined with the decline of the first batch of Surrealists, and the second batch of Montparnasse Surrealists chose a new bar-dance hall-dinner-soup function on Rue Edgar-Guinet A tavern as a whole, as a place for their gatherings and activities.It is not far from Rue de Parre and Montparnasse train station.Unfortunately, the knights of the Earl of Lautreamont could not bear to hang on the door of the tavern that served as their nightly entertainment, the name "Male" taken from the book "The Song of Maldoror" by Lautreamont. Doro". On the night of February 14, 1930, the Surrealists organized a raid on the tavern for this purpose.Not all of them were there, and not all the new members of the movement, Bunuel, Giacometti, Magritte, Dali, Sadour, and Thirion, were on the front line.Only a few of them came forward to help Aragorn, Pere and Tang Juyi.Breton shouted that he was a distinguished guest invited by Lautreamont, stepped into the door of Maldoreau's tavern, and took the lead in grabbing the wine glasses and dishes on the table and smashing them at the door and window glass. "The surrealists are attacking us!" a woman in a leather jacket screamed in panic. Thirion was punched in the chest, a plate containing champagne snails wrapped in fresh butter hit Tang Juyi's body, and a piece of dry ham was thrown on Ai Luya's face.He didn't give in, and immediately used his hands and feet to fight.As a result, the scale of the melee in the entire tavern became larger and wider, and the scope became wider and wider.Ladies in tuxedos and men in tuxedos huddled to one side of the washroom.René Char fired a shot at a tablecloth, and the thick custard from a large soufflé dripped over the lace-trimmed tablecloth; a champagne cask sputtered; the head waiter threw A fruit hit Aragon in the back of the head, leading to an attacking battle with bordeaux barrels, tables and chairs.The thrown tables and chairs smashed against the kitchen doors and windows, and all shattered with a crackling sound.Three chefs rushed out, and one of them shouted hoarsely: "Go and call the police!" Wine bottles and salty, spicy and fragrant ham continued to dance in the air.Police cars with sirens sounding came to the scene of the incident, and the poets regrouped.They found René Charles bleeding from a kitchen knife on his thigh and Breton's shirt torn. The perpetrators all retreated into the door, leaving room for the police to enter.Amidst the din of people around him, Breton noticed that the Maldoreau tavern was in a mess: broken cups, plates and dishes, broken tables and chairs, and soup, gravy, and condiments flowing everywhere on the walls and floors.He rejoiced to be avenged for Lautreamont's honor. The Surrealists withdrew.Charles was taken by taxi to the hospital, and the rest went in the direction of the Montparnasse cemetery.Breton's eyes sparkled with the fire of joy that often follows a group fight.Pere was gearing up again, because he noticed a priest walking towards him from the sidewalk a hundred meters away.Aragorn had a big gash in his upper lip, so he left everyone and walked towards the Rue de Lambue.Arrive at the crossroads of Rue Vavan, turn left again, pass the Dome and Rotonde taverns, until you reach a restaurant with crimson curtains.Elsa Triole has been biding her time at the restaurant since the night it opened two years ago. In the past six months, artists have left Montparnasse quickly, and the speed is getting faster and faster.They evacuated expensive restaurants and studios as if fleeing.Their studios had become the studios of wealthy Americans, and fifteen nightclub billboards had been hung in places with picturesque views, some of which were occupied by self-interested local newspapers and magazines. Roger Wayan The Castle Bar covers an area of ​​1,400 square meters and is a multi-functional place integrating restaurants, dance halls, warmth, temptation, trysts and plundering fights.The first floor is the restaurant, the basement is the entertainment hall, and the second floor is the pétanque hall. In 1926, the partnership of Fro and Lafont, natives of Auvergne, bought the coal and timber warehouses opposite the Bar Célette.Before that, they had reclaimed the Dome from Father Chambon, who, after three years of faithful service, had reclaimed his property.After their dream failed, they made another plan: to open a bar in Montparnasse, if not the largest in the capital, it should be the largest bar in Montparnasse. Just do it and start construction in January 1927.A year later, the project was over and everything was ready for opening.The completed restaurant has three floors and three styles: the guests on the first floor dine under the eyelids of the artists who are carving beams and paintings; people come in through the revolving door facing the street, which is the bar, and the waiter Bob is behind the bar, ready to serve you at any time Serve.Push open a door connecting the two halls, and enter the restaurant from the bar. People who are willing to play petanque go up to the second floor from the stairs on the right side after the hall.There is a big platform there.People dine there in summer and play boules there all year round.Games were often organized by the painter Othon Frieze. Nightlife folks go to the basement.There are two bands accompaniment there all the year round, one plays blues and the other tango.Dancers can choose from them according to their favorite rhythm. In the afternoon, it was arranged as a tea room, and it was replaced with another kind of taste.Older women with heavy make-up come here looking for penniless young men.People trade their special skills for a little money. This operation continued until the 1970s, and the income seemed to have been good. Why go to the castle?The Kasbah Restaurant is actually in the same family as the Dom & Rodton Tavern.After Flo and Lafont named their bar "The Castle", they actually built a dome on the top of the building to vent the stale and smelly air in the basement entertainment hall. On the night of the opening of the Castle Bar, 2,000 people attended the opening ceremony, which was called congratulations, but actually took the opportunity to eat and drink.Not long after the dinner began, the 1,200 bottles of champagne had already been sold out.The taxi went to all directions in Paris to pick up people for the banquet. When they returned, the people around the wine and food table were crowded. Go to Tongde Tavern.There they asked for glasses and slowly gorged themselves in celebration of the peaceful life in New Montparnasse. In 1914 in the Luotongde tavern, Papa Libion ​​had only three assistants.Today's Castle Bar has more than 400 employees.Mr. Fro's alias is "Bar Citroen Citroen is the name of a large French car manufacturer.".his factory?It's the Castle Bar.Four years before the bar opened, André Varno predicted: The industrialist who opens the first bar here may make a fortune, and the artists will leave Montparnasse to set up camp elsewhere. [Excerpt from "The Cradle of the New School" by André Varno] The bar is open, the artists are still in Montparnasse, and will be there for a long time.So, are they still living the same life?No.De Lang has been driving his Bugatti since then, and Man Ray bought a Gabriel Voisin (1880-1973), a French engineer and industrialist. In 1908, he created the world's first aircraft factory and started manufacturing cars in 1918. , Keesling owns two American Willis-Konigs, Picabia has a six-cylinder Drager, and Sandras bought an Alfa-Romeo.Leopold Sporowski is very rich but has no driver's license.Fujita didn’t own a car either. He traded Yaoji’s “bullet” car for a Drager with a foldable top, but the driver refused to fold it because the foldable top would wrinkle.Replacing the top cover doesn't really cost a lot of money.The amount in the list of taxes and fees that the tax collector gave him was as high as several million francs.Fujita fired all his staff and was about to move out of the Montsouris residence.He held a big art exhibition in Japan, hoping to make a lot of money from it, otherwise he would have to sell the car. Only Parsons didn't change anything.He's the wealthiest of the gang, but doesn't show it in the slightest.He always came to Luo Tongde on foot, surrounded by his models and faithful followers.He made a passage through the old open-top cars parked on the side of the road to enter the tavern, came to the bar, and while buying a drink for all his followers, he looked around for Lucy Kroger.Right now, he is in a good mood, having just returned from a trip to the United States.During the whole trip, this girl Lucy had been with him, and she was pregnant with his child.At that time, he didn't know that such an angelic woman had brought him a devilish fate. Parsons, always true to anyone, has also been true to his love for Lucy Kroger.Others live chaotic lives. Yaoji is about to leave Fujita and fall into the arms of Robert Desnos, while Fujita has started their new life with fashion model and singer Marty Luck. After Paul Éluard traveled the world alone and returned to Paris, he lost Gala.And then he picked up Nushishi to accompany him without spending a penny on the street.For a long time, Gallas has been hesitating between Éluard and Ernst.She asked the two of them to negotiate a settlement, but she took the opportunity to choose Dali. Bronya has just recovered from the grief of Radiguet's death and is about to marry René Claire whom she met on tour. Kiki quarrels with American photographer Man Ray many times, because Man Ray is considering marrying an American girl.She is an excellent fashion model with a bold personality.She came to France to study photography.One day, she came to visit Man Ray on First Battle Street.Man Ray was not at home, and she waited for him in a nearby bar.When Man Ray entered the bar, she came up to him and said directly: "Hi. My name is Lee Miller, your student." "What did you say?" "Li Miller, from today onwards, I am your student." "But I have no pupils!" stammered Man Ray, looking at her. "No, I am your student." The next day, Man Ray was leaving for Biarritz, a seaside city in southwestern France.When he told her about it, she smiled sweetly and asked a question: "What time does your train leave?" Man Ray, a good seductress, was jealous of any man approaching Lee Miller.From then on, his pistol was always in his pocket, ready to kill anyone who tried to take his place next to Lee Miller.Kiki couldn't bear it anymore. At the bar counter of the Old Castle Bar, she grabbed a stack of plates in front of her and threw it straight at Man Ray's face. Man Ray walked around the dining table, dodging Kiki's pursuit, and finally hid under the table.This is life. Happiness and troubles in life always coexist and accompany each other all the time.The earth is still turning and life is still going on. And what about Basic himself?She married a journalist and painter named Henri Broca.Broca founded several newspapers in Paris.Although still very young, Kiki's paintings sold a lot during several exhibitions.Since then, her reputation has grown and she was selected as the "Queen of Montparnasse". With the same vehemence of Man Ray's favorite ex-model, Derain ended his entangled relationship with his own mistress.Derain had a very wealthy mistress named Madeleine Anspark, the wife of a Belgian banker.He was so drunk, she watched him blushing, smashed the cups, chairs and tables of the Castle Bar, then jumped into his Bugatti car and headed southeast at 170 kilometers per hour Barbizon galloped in the direction.The next day, he returned to the bar, expressed his deep apology, compensated the bar for the loss, and praised the performance of his little car engine, which could not be compared with any art treasures.Madeleine agrees with him and asks him to give her two silver foxes.Most of the time he gives in and meets her demands. But the most infatuated among the regulars of the Castle Bar should be Louis Aragon, everyone has seen the funny scenes of him chasing love. Before Elsa entered his life, the poet Aragon was madly in love with Denise Levi, Simone Breton's cousin and soon-to-be wife of Neville, and Nancy Günard. Nancy exchanged frequent hugs with Aragon in 1926 and 1928.She often wore an ivory bracelet on her wrist, and thus often left the imprint of her bracelet on Aragorn's face.She wears a hat or veil and a cloak.Her companion, Aragorn, also often wears a cloak and carries a staff.He is a cane collector and has many canes.The man is beautiful and handsome, and the woman is slim and beautiful. They are a natural pair.They were both free: because she valued above all the fulfillment of her desires, and her wealth, which she could spend in any restaurant or Atlantic cruise, made it possible.He was a surrealist writer, she a generous inspiration.Now she takes him here, now there.When she finally decided to choose him among the regulars of the old castle bar, she was about to lead him to bed in one of her houses.He obeyed her wishes and followed her obediently. It was one day in early 1926, and Aragon spotted a woman in London.She is not only free, but independent.She had managed to avoid pregnancy and was able to get any man she wanted.She examines them carefully, takes them, takes them where she wills.They drink and play together, and then she dumps them.But Aragorn was left behind, and he fell at her feet.She could curse him at will in French with an English accent, and look at him grimly.Throwing 1,500 pages of "In Defense of the Infinite" into the fire in his hotel room in Madrid, accusing him of jealousy, narrow-mindedness, single sexual relations, etc., while he was always on one knee, obsessed with her To the point of being insensitive and unresponsive to all insults. Together they traveled to Spain, Holland and Germany. In July 1928, they were in Venice.Aragon is waiting to receive the proceeds from the sale of a Braque painting he bought at the Carnville Collection auction in 1922.He bought it for 240 francs. Six years later, the price increased a hundred times, but the money was delayed.He couldn't hang on to Nancy and depend on her for support.His sweetheart was walking in Piazza San Marco with a man named Henri Claude.Claude is a pianist, and it was Nancy, the heiress of the Gunnar family, who took him out of the piano for a walk. Aragorn was alone in the hotel room.He wanted to die, and he tried.He later told people that he jumped into the Grand Canal or took sleeping pills, maybe both.But in any case, he was saved just in time.Fortunately, the money finally arrived, and he returned to Paris. After returning to Paris, Aragon lived in the Rue de la Chateau.The house was formerly inhabited by Prevet, Tanguy and Duamel. In 1928, two young people from Nancy (one Communist, one Surrealist), André Thirion and Georges Sadour, asked them to return the house.When Aragorn returned, they offered him one of these chambers. Nancy returns to Paris from Venice.How long will the contact between them be resumed?Until the day a Bugatti car very similar to De Lang's was parked in front of the Castle Bar. After the car stopped, a young woman got out of the car.She was brown-haired and lively, wearing a bonnet and holding a large white mouse in her arms.She was a dancer, just back from Vienna, and her name was Lena Ansel.She was immediately surrounded by the crowd, but she chose Aragorn.Aragorn led her away from the castle bar.André Aragon later wrote: At that time, I thought to myself that I was in love with another woman, a German woman... I pretended not to love another, an English woman. [Excerpt from "Death" by Louis Aragon] The love with the "German woman" did not last long.Because in the corner of the bar, another woman has been staring at him.She thought it was time for her to show up.She bent down and said to a friend, Laurent Thiard, who was sipping a beer: "I want you to introduce me to that man." "Aragorn?" Tiar asked. "Yes, Aragorn," replied the woman. "Why did you choose him?" Elsa Triole, looking intently with her characteristic dark eyes into the eyes of the artist who had neither written nor painted, simply replied: "Because I've been waiting for this moment for three years." Love can be expressed as summing up life, or it can develop life. Louis Aragon November 4, 1928, Mayakovsky Vladimir Maiakovski (1894-1930), Russian poet and playwright.Sitting at a table in the old castle restaurant.Mayakovsky is a great Russian poet.He had just arrived in Paris a few days ago and was staying at the Hotel Istria.Elsa Triolet had invited him here.Elsa has known Mayakovsky since childhood, and Mayakovsky once loved Elsa.But in the end it was Elsa's sister Lily Brick who kidnapped him.Brick was her husband's family name.Like Eluard's attitude when Gala was in contact with Max Ernst, Brick didn't care too much about Elsa's relationship with Mayakovsky.At that time, Elsa was throwing herself into the arms of Triole, a Frenchman who came to Moscow in 1917.Later, Triolet took her to Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean, and finally settled in Paris.In Paris, Triole left her after marrying her. Many people from the Ilya Ehrenburg faction often surrounded Mayakovsky and became his good friends.马雅可夫斯基与众不同：大高个儿，宽肩膀，栗色厚发，手掌大得如同球拍，但目光却柔和而安详。 他的身边坐着一位18岁的姑娘塔蒂亚娜。他爱这位姑娘，但他比她年长20岁，还不属于同一种族，他是红皮肤，而她是白皮肤。除此之外，他也不大可能带她回到他的苏维埃老家。 阿拉贡从古堡酒吧大厅中间走过。马雅可夫斯基派人叫他过去。两位诗人相互久闻大名，但至今还从未谋面。俄国人一个法语单词不会，法国人一个俄语字母不懂。幸运的是，有翻译在场。他们借助翻译热烈地交谈起来。阿拉贡邀请马雅可夫斯基第三天去城堡街，他将组织宴会，为马雅可夫斯基接风洗尘。11月5日，阿拉贡来到古堡酒吧时，他的一位朋友罗朗·蒂阿尔招呼他到他的身边。蒂阿尔对他说：“我想给你介绍一个女朋友。”这位女朋友——艾尔莎就坐在另外一张桌子旁。她头戴天然色羊毛帽子，身穿皮大衣，内着黑色连衣裙。她身材矮小，棕红色头发，皮肤白净，看上去为人十分严肃。阿拉贡坐下。当时是晚上六点钟，天色还没有黑。阿拉贡邀请艾尔莎参加次日为马雅可夫斯基组织的活动。“我一定来。”她说。她的确来了，混在其他的来宾中。阿拉贡并未特殊关照她，他关心的是马雅可夫斯基和他的朋友、由于失恋而心绪不佳躲在阳台上的安德烈·蒂里翁。阿拉贡到阳台上陪伴蒂里翁。艾尔莎从下面看到那里发生的一切，她立即明白自己的机会到了。她上了阳台，用目光审视一下周围，像在开玩笑地说：“这里是干什么用的？是用来做爱的吗？”说着，她紧紧地贴在阿拉贡的身上。蒂里翁看着眼前发生的一切，惊呆了。 在1988年出版的安德烈·蒂里翁的《没有革命的革命派》中，就此事写道： 她丝毫不顾羞耻地向他立即发动进攻，而且十分顽强、很有耐心，坚信自己一定能够征服他。在后来的一生中，她的这种性格还得到了进一步的发展。 看到面前发生的一切，蒂里翁自己反倒感到有点儿难为情，知趣地离开阳台，下了楼。一刻钟之后，这一对情人面带微笑地回到来宾们中间，随着伴奏的乐曲欢快地跳起舞来。 以后事态的发展不难想像。他们经常在城堡街幽会，但他们的第一夜是在伊斯特里亚旅馆度过的，马雅可夫斯基在那里的楼梯上遇见过他们。此外，他们幽会的那一天，艾尔莎是在弗拉基米尔·波兹内陪同下去赴约的，她并且要求波兹内在适当的时候悄悄地离开［摘自1994年出版的伊里亚·马尔古的作品《艾尔莎·特里奥莱，其眼睛与头脑》］。 接下来，阿拉贡与艾尔莎这一对情人之间的关系发展得并不顺利。他们只开了个头，还没有足够的时间创造其神话。 我那时本来就不爱你，不爱你。我从未对你说过我爱你，因为我那时根本就不爱你。 ［摘自路易·阿拉贡的《寻死》］ 当时，艾尔莎的眼睛中还没有后来阿拉贡赞赏的那种神奇的目光。阿拉贡更喜欢舞蹈演员莱娜·安塞尔的眼睛、她的美貌和活泼性格。然而她很滑稽，与南希·居纳尔一样，过分开放，她也同其他男人调情，同一个雕塑家特别难舍难分。 艾尔莎想见他的情夫阿拉贡而找不到他时，就立即揪住蒂里翁或者萨杜尔问：“您看见阿拉贡了吗？” “没有啊。”他们回答的同时，目光躲躲闪闪。 他们当然知道他在哪里，但阿拉贡要求他们为他保密。他顺手牵羊地选择了俄罗斯人，不是为她的美貌，而是为莱娜和她的雕塑家报仇。起码他对蒂里翁是这么说的。他还说他不相信艾尔莎，她的纠缠不休到了令人畏惧的程度。而且她守不住秘密，嘴巴不严。他怀疑艾尔莎是为监视共产党员的警方工作的内奸。宪兵怎么就不可能派遣这样一位青年女子，来城堡街的卧室里收集在枕边泄露的机密呢？ 在这一点上，阿拉贡是过于多虑了。实际上，艾尔莎爱他到了要死的地步。如果说她第一步轻而易举地获得了成功的话，而第二步却没那么容易，至少她还必须奋斗几个星期。于是，聪明伶俐的她玩起了令人吃惊的也是最后的手段。 一天晚上，阿拉贡要求蒂里翁去“丛林夜总会”告诉莱娜，他无法在十一点钟准时赴约，他将迟到一会儿。“丛林夜总会”是在“赛马师夜总会”的老板去世之后，埃莱纳·吕班斯坦购买下第一战役街和蒙巴那斯大街夹角处的一整块地皮，建起的一座现代建筑。它足以满足那些夜间出来游荡、过夜生活的人继续他们喜欢活动的需求。“赛马师夜总会”的那些常客来此，仍然是踩着同样的布鲁斯舞曲跳舞。于是，“丛林夜总会”代替了“赛马师夜总会”，只不过换了个地方而已。 十一点差几分，蒂里翁进了“丛林夜总会”大厅，在一张桌边就座。夜间活动刚开始，大厅里的人稀稀拉拉。城堡街的送信人边喝酒边等。十一点过几秒钟，一个青年女子进了大厅，径直地过来坐在了他的面前。但来人不是莱娜，而是艾尔莎。气氛突然变得紧张起来，讨论的话题立即转向：阿拉贡在哪里？这是一个一方兴趣甚浓，而另一方却十分反感的话题。 蒂里翁苦于找不到脱身之计，恨不能找个地缝溜之大吉，而同时担心阿拉贡真正的情妇到来。最后只好边战边退，步步为营，一点儿一点儿地往外倒： “阿拉贡在哪里？” “他同另一个女人在一起。” "Who?" “一个舞蹈演员。” “这是临时性的。” “您说的完全正确。他爱她。在他为南希·居纳尔的离去痛苦得不能自拔时，她给了他安慰，缓解了他的痛苦。” “您是说他爱她吗？” "kind of." “就一点儿，对吗？” "A little more." “还多呢？” 蒂里翁像一个正在经受着多么大苦难折磨的人一样，长长地出了一口气，接着叹了一口气，说： “他的确爱她。” 艾尔莎受到了沉重的一击，突然变得哑口无言。接着，痛苦地哭了起来。 就在此时，一对情人出现在了舞池的另一侧。他们正是莱娜·安塞尔和路易·阿拉贡。 “糟了！”蒂里翁嘀咕道。 “啊！”艾尔莎惊讶得不由自主地喊出声来。 她如同一股旋风似的从椅子上站起来。阿拉贡一看见她，一转身，便消失得无影无踪。艾尔莎仔细地端详了一会儿莱娜，然后对她说： “请过来同我喝上一杯吧……” 两位女人在蒂里翁的桌子旁落座。俄罗斯人艾尔莎转身示意蒂里翁：“请你回到阿拉贡身边吧，免得他干出什么傻事来！” 蒂里翁没有等她重复，像一枝上了弦的箭，嗖地起身冲出了“丛林夜总会”，奔向第一战役街。在拉斯帕伊街上加快了步伐，飞也似的从蒙巴那斯墓地后经过，在城堡街刹住脚步停了下来。 阿拉贡在那里。他正在南希·居纳尔的肖像前自我陶醉呢。 几分钟后，莱娜·安塞尔和艾尔莎·特里奥莱二人笑眯眯地推门进来。艾尔莎走到阿拉贡的身边，温情脉脉地宣布了她们的谈判结果：莱娜明白了，与艾尔莎对阿拉贡怀有的激情相比较，她对阿拉贡的爱情简直是微不足道。所以，她自动离开。阿拉贡还没来得及反应过来，还没有时间说一句话，莱娜转身向安德烈·蒂里翁说：“请您陪我去找一辆出租车。”接着，就出门走了。 当这位信奉共产主义的超现实主义者（将来有一天他还会成为戴高乐主义者）蒂里翁返回来时，城堡街的那座房子里已经关了灯，拉上了窗帘。诗人阿拉贡和他的缪斯，已经在从前邦雅曼睡觉的房间里休息了。 以具有顽强的求爱精神并且获得成果而名扬天下的玛丽-洛尔·诺瓦耶将南希·居纳尔比做罕见的夜蝴蝶，而将艾尔莎比做常春藤。正如1997年出版的多米尼克·德桑蒂写的《阿耳戈乘坐快艇赴阿耳戈寻觅金羊毛的人。英雄》中所说：“常春藤很难缠，一旦粘上就难以摆脱掉。” 特里奥莱夫人（艾尔莎）没有能够嫁给马雅可夫斯基成为马雅可夫斯基夫人，而最终于1935年成为阿拉贡夫人。三十五年之后，艾尔莎仍然因为阿拉贡对南希·居纳尔的恋情而耿耿于怀，当南希需要阿拉贡帮助时，艾尔莎阻止他做丝毫的表示。 南希·居纳尔的继承人艾尔莎此时已经将她的财富挥霍一空：全部给了超现实主义者、西班牙共和派和美国黑人。1970年的一天夜间，为了避免在医院的公用病房里结束自己的生命，瘦得吓人、重病中喝醉了的她死在一辆出租车中。 面对艾尔莎的死，阿拉贡无能为力，只好听之任之。 莱娜·安塞尔在离开阿拉贡后很快就死了。1929年11月3日，德朗向这位年轻的舞蹈演员提议，一起去巴黎南郊的巴尔比宗吃午饭。同时，带上弗洛朗丝。一年前，马克斯·恩斯特曾经成功地将弗洛朗丝诱骗到手。弗洛朗丝当时正准备回安德烈·蒂里翁在城堡街的住处。布加蒂汽车容纳不下三个人，于是他们开了两辆汽车。 他们带着弗洛朗丝一起去了巴尔比宗。在返程的路上，德朗和莱娜各驾驶一辆车，在公路上你追我赶开得飞快。布加蒂汽车的速度很快，但有一个缺陷：它的马力很大，但车身过轻，本来应该在行李箱中加一个重量砝码方可快跑。德朗曾经想到过这一点，但莱娜没有想到。当时正是收获甜菜的季节，道路泥泞，很滑。在两辆汽车的你追我赶中，布加蒂紧紧咬住画家的车一步也不放松。突然，车轮一打滑，车身失去了控制，横着打了一个滚、两个滚、第三个滚。接着，汽车着火了。救援人员赶到时，一切都已经无可挽救，人们见到的只是两具完全烧焦的尸体。 1930年2月14日，阿拉贡在砸了马尔多罗酒馆之后，推开古堡酒吧的旋转门进了大厅。此时的阿拉贡已经成了只有自己妻子一个女人的男人，他也成了这个艺术家日渐减少的新蒙巴那斯的一根顶梁柱。 曾几何时，艺术家们为蒙马特尔带来无数的游客和金钱，继而日渐衰败。如今的蒙巴那斯也每况愈下，大势已去，日薄西山。光彩夺目的豪华汽车和丁当作响的金钱银币还在，但画家、诗人等艺术家们已经悄然离去，各自去寻找更加安静的做爱之处。他们中的一些人去了圣-日耳曼-德-佩，他们在将来的某一天还会返回蒙马特尔和蒙巴那斯高地，而大多数人到了别处。许多人完全改变了原有的生活方式（第一次世界大战瓦解了、第二次世界大战彻底粉碎了他们时常在一起聚集的生活方式）。 毕加索很早以前就已经离开了那里；马克斯·雅各布逃跑到了另一条江（卢瓦尔河）边；纪尧姆·阿波利奈尔去世了；弗拉芒克整天喝酒，喝醉后大喊大叫，大吵大闹；凡·东根在诺曼底多维尔的海滨木板浮桥上同人谈写作合同；安德烈·萨尔蒙写了大量的专栏文章，但也并不总是那么安分；勃拉克独来独往，很少同他人接触；德朗整天在计算为他的汽车应该交多少税费；胡安·格里斯去世；莫迪利阿尼去世；基斯林每年到萨纳里过冬；扎德基恩再也没有什么消息了；苏丁从不再来；桑德拉斯整天旅游。 如果说还有一个人仍然留在蒙巴那斯，这也许就是朱勒·帕森。他头戴瓜皮帽，身穿深蓝色制服，嘴角始终叼着一枝烟卷。他时不时地朝阿拉贡递去一个小小的微笑。他和阿拉贡之间至少还存在一个共同点：他也是只有一个女人的男人。 最后一位放荡不羁的艺术家 自由人。用他那双流血的手推开金制的门。有血有肉的帕森不屑进行选择。主宰生命，由自己安排死亡。 Andre Salmon 爱情之舟在日常生活中被撞毁。 Mayakovsky 帕森患了严重的肝硬化，其原因与吕西·克罗格有关，也与他自身心绪欠佳有关。在多年的绘画创作中，他逐渐地丧失了创作的自由。他本来一直喜欢流畅的线条和随意的水彩画，但他必须作油画，因为它可以卖出好价钱。小贝尔南向他提议签署一份甚至连德朗和毕加索都渴望得到的高价合同，他没有签，因为他不想成为“绘画界的男鸨”。 赚钱做什么呢？他要让吕西·克罗格有地方住，让埃尔米娜·戴维有衣穿，让他画室中的十来个模特儿有饭吃，还必须养活人们送到他这里来的一些年仅13岁的小姑娘。他让她们做他的绘画模特儿，他付给她们钱，但他不画她们。每人摆三次姿势，拿了钱，就高高兴兴地走了。 但她们接着还来，继续养活她们对帕森来说逐渐变得困难起来。他开始像躲避恶魔般地躲避她们。他从一家旅馆到另一家旅馆，寻找酒和女子稀少的旅馆，寻找无人能发现的他的画室。 吕西为他在蒙巴那斯的边缘地带的万屋门找到一个小小的私人公寓——山茶花别墅。他被安置在那里。他希望吕西也到那里同他一起生活。他也回克里西大街，在那里溜达，在那里创作。由于吕西常迟到，后来干脆决定不再来见他，但他却无论如何也无法忘记她，于是他就常给她写一些令人撕心裂肺的信件。她责怪帕森过度饮酒，疏于工作，夜间游荡回来时常常满脸鲜血，而他每次都说：“你坏，你这人真是太坏了。” 1930年5月的一个晚上，她对他说他们之间的一切都完了。帕森见他们之间的关系再无挽回的可能，提出要把在万屋门公寓中他的衣物和几幅画取回来。She replied: “好吧，但必须在七点之前取走。” “晚上七点？” “不，早上七点。” 帕森请他的朋友帕帕洛夫来帮助他。他们在蒙巴那斯墓地的围墙外等了整整一夜，拦了两辆出租车，拉他们去了万屋门。 帕森回到克里西大街他们的原住处，吕西也回去了。他们两位既无法在一起生活，又无法果断地分手，就这样拖了十年。 1930年6月1日，帕森在画室的桌子上工工整整地写了几行字。然后，从他的画作中选了一幅，穿上他那件早已破烂不堪的海蓝色制服。它和他的靴子和瓜皮帽一样，哪怕已经破旧不堪，蒙马特尔和蒙巴那斯的人也一眼就能认出来。为什么要换呢？换给谁看呢？ 他下楼去见他的医生——特赞克大夫。自从特让克大夫任他的医生以来，从来没有收他的钱。为了表示感谢，他送一幅画给大夫。 如同从1905年以来他经常做的那样，他跨过塞纳河，去了瓦万大街。他对那条街的每个门洞、每条长凳和每棵树都了如指掌。他推开古堡酒吧的旋转门进去。和通常一样，服务生博布站在吧台后。帕森要了一杯白兰地，然后将他从前的欠款全部付清。 “帕森先生，您结账啊？” "yes." 帕森用了这一天的整个晚上和夜间告别巴黎。凌晨，他在皮卡尔广场遇见作家皮埃尔·马克·奥尔朗从一家酒吧出来。帕森对他说： “请您过来，咱们喝上最后一杯吧！” 但十分疲倦的马克·奥尔朗没有留步，走远了。 帕森自己独自喝了最后一杯后，回到家，锁上门。朝霞已经映红了蒙马特尔和它周围的山丘，帕森的百叶窗紧闭，他不想看到外面的任何东西。 他在地上放了两个垫子，垫子两边各放一个盆。在一张柏林展览会请柬的背面，他给吕西写下以下诀别词： 吕西，请不要责怪我选择现在的道路。谢谢你给我的东西。你太好了。为了你能够幸福，我必须走了！ farewell!farewell! 他进了浴室，拿起剃须刀的刀片，割断了左手腕上的动脉血管。接着回到画室，重新读了一遍他当天早上写的遗嘱：他将银行的全部存款和所有的绘画作品遗赠给埃尔米娜·戴维和吕西·克罗格。 他用右手食指蘸上从左手腕上淌出的鲜血，在壁橱门上写下“永别了吕西！”几个大字。 他重新拿起刀片，割断右手腕上的动脉血管。他静静地躺在垫子上，两只手臂分别放在垫子两侧的盆里。 he waits.时间过得很慢，很慢。 在他的眼前出现了他孩童时代的一幅图景：一个上吊自杀的男子。 他重新站起来，走到厨房，从一个抽屉里找到一根绳子，打了一个活结后，套在脖子上。他又回到画室，目光到处寻找，最后选择了门把手。他走过去，将绳子的一头系在上面，另一头抓在手中，让自己的身体沉下去、沉下去…… 当6月5日吕西发现他时，她和开锁的人同时尖叫起来。接着就是埃尔米娜·戴维的号哭，警察局长对现场的验证和进行笔录，朋友们送花……有关帕森自杀身亡的消息公布之后，全巴黎都在为失去他而无限惋惜。举行葬礼的那天，人们哭泣、叹息，画家们为他挥笔作画，诗人们为他创作悼念诗篇。在蒙巴那斯墓地的三块墓碑上，留下了生活在三个时代的三位伟大艺术家的名字： 纪尧姆·阿波利奈尔。 阿姆多·莫迪利阿尼。 朱勒·帕森。