“Passerby, I beg you, spread roses on my tomb” Maybe you will end up with a bleeding heart… In 1959, Aragon wrote a book about his muse, Elsa, in the tormented context of the Russian revolution. Elsa Triolet and Louis Aragon met in 1929 when she arrived from Russia to join the surrealist movement in Paris. During the revolution, they…

In Pessoa-like poetic language, with slang-ridden sentences that move from interiority towards exuberance similar to those of Fief by David Lopez, Capucine and Simon Johannin have produced a powerful new novel that serves a testament to survival and undying love.