Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux explained

Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux is a poem written by Louis Aragon in January 1943, and published in in 1944. The poem reflects on the inherent contradiction between love and the pain that it inevitably brings to those who experience it. An underlying meaning, made explicit in the final stanza, applies this theme to the French Resistance, in which Aragon participated.

History

The poem was written in Montchat, a neighborhood in the third arrondissement of Lyon, at the home of Aragon's friend René Tavernier, a fellow poet and resistance member; Tavernier harbored Aragon there during the Occupation along with Aragon's partner Elsa Triolet.[1] The former location of the house, now occupied by, has been marked since 1993 by a commemorative plaque.[2] [3]

In a 1963 interview with broadcast on RTF, Aragon explained that at the time he wrote the poem, Triolet intended to leave him due to a Resistance rule that a couple active in the movement could not live together, as this would pose an operational security risk.[4] [5] [6]

The poem's manuscript was displayed in 1972 at a Bibliothèque nationale exposition on Triolet.[7] René Tavernier's son Bertrand, however, claimed that the poem's original manuscript was still in his father's possession, and that the one displayed at the Bibliothèque nationale was a later copy. The poem was in fact dedicated to his mother Geneviève,[3] [8] according to whom Aragon made a second manuscript after the war when the original dedication provoked a quarrel with Triolet.[1] [9] [10] A facsimile of the Tavernier manuscript was published in 2010 in the review .[11]

Adaptations

Adaptations of the 1950s

In 1953 the poem, stripped of its final stanza and subjected to minor changes, was set to music and recorded by Georges Brassens, who later reused the same melody for another poem,, by Catholic writer Francis Jammes.[12] Aragon, a lifelong Communist, took offense to this as well as to the abridgment of the poem's conclusion.[13] [14] In his estimation, this change altered the entire meaning of his work, which was intended as a poem of the Resistance and not simply a love song. Despite Aragon's objections, the adaptation proved popular and would go on to be covered by such prominent artists as Nina Simone. In 1955, Catherine Sauvage released a recording that reincorporated the final verse.

Other Adaptations

The work has since been performed by many other artists, including:[15]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: fr. Bertrand Tavernier.

    fr:Noël Simsolo

    . Tavernier. Bertrand. Simsolo. Noël. Écriture. Le cinéma dans le sang: Entretiens avec Noël Simsolo. Cinema in the Blood: Interviews with Noël Simsolo. Paris. 2011. 978-2-35905-036-3. .
  2. Web site: Ferenczi . Aurélien .

    fr:Aurélien Ferenczi

    . July 18, 2008 . Bertrand Tavernier habitait au 4, rue Chambovet, à Lyon . Télérama.
  3. Web site: Confluences, Tavernier, Aragon et les autres. Bruno. Thévenon. 10 July 2013. Le Progrès.
  4. Web site: Louis Aragon : 6ème partie. Louis Aragon: Part 6. Entretiens avec. Inathèque. Institut national de l'audiovisuel. . Can be viewed at "Louis Aragon (6/10) : Il y aurait des amours heureuses" À voix nue, France Culture, November 17, 2020 (begins at 13:50).
  5. Book: Entretiens avec Francis Crémieux: Le fou d'Elsa, l'écoulement du temps, la ponctuation, l'équivoque, le réalisme, le roman, Elsa, et autres sujets. Interviews with Francis Crémieux: Elsa's Fool, the Flow of Time, Punctuation, Ambiguity, Realism, the Novel, Elsa, and Other Subjects. Paris. Gallimard. 1964. 98. BNF 37449108.
  6. Book: Desanti, Dominique. Les Clés d'Elsa. Elsa's Keys. Paris. Ramsay. 1983. 2-85956-331-8. 312. .
  7. Book: ((Beaudiquez, M.)), ((Massuard, A.)), ((Avril, M.)), ((Bibliothèque nationale)) . 1972 . Elsa Triolet : [exposition], Paris, [Bibliothèque nationale, 10 février-30 mars] 1972 . Bibliothèque nationale. 16. BNF 35367007.
  8. Web site: Bertrand Tavernier, la lutte filmale. Libération. Guichoux. Marie. 12 March 1999.
  9. Book: Douin, Jean-Luc. fr. Tavernier. Paris. Édilig. Cinégraphiques. 1988. 75–76. 2-85601-185-3.
  10. Book: Douin, Jean-Luc. fr. Bertrand Tavernier: Cinéaste insurgé. Paris. . Ramsay poche cinéma. 2006. 108. 2-84114-813-0. Bertrand Tavernier: Insurgent Filmmaker.
  11. La leçon d’Aragon. . Corpet. Olivier. Olivier Corpet. 20. 43. May 2010.
  12. Web site: Album 'Chanson pour l'Auvergant'. Analyse Brassens.
  13. Book: [{{Google books|FNxCEAAAQBAJ|plain-url=yes}} Brassens: une vie en chansons]. fr. Brassens: a Life in Songs. Chaline. Thomas. Paris. Hugo Doc. 2021. 978-2-7556-9218-1.
  14. Book: Winter . Jean-Pierre . « Et quand il croit serrer son bonheur, il le broie » . Vous avez dit jouissance ? . You Said Enjoyment?. "And when he believes he embraces his happiness, he crushes it". Érès . 2019-04-25 . 10.3917/eres.guily.2019.01.0245 . 2022-01-02 . 245–257.
  15. Web site: Il N'y A Pas D'amour Heureux (1953). All versions of Some musics . 23 January 2011. .
  16. Web site: 2012-11-20. DYM AND DESTROY. Marc Ogeret - Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux (Aragon).