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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221135013
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 360
Size : 1 x 215 mm
Rebellious Sisters : Elsa Triolet and Lili Brik

Release date : 19/03/2015
“The Kagan sisters bring together culture, beauty, talent, intelligence; they were unstoppable.”—Pierre Bergé
 
A true biography, but one that is novelistic to the utmost degree. As famous for their beauty as they were for their intelligence, the two Kagan sisters, Lili Brik and Elsa Triolet, formed a celebrity quartet with two of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Louis... A true biography, but one that is novelistic to the utmost degree. As famous for their beauty as they were for their intelligence, the two Kagan sisters, Lili Brik and Elsa Triolet, formed a celebrity quartet with two of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Louis Aragon. Lili befriended and stimulated geniuses with an infallible eye: the novelist and poet Boris Pasternak, the painters Rodchenko and Malevitch, the composer Dmitri Shostakovitch, the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, and the star dancer Maya Plisetskaya. Elsa became a writer and was the first woman to receive the Goncourt Prize. Ready to sacrifice anything for their artistic dream, the rebellious sisters spanned the twentieth century with a vision of revolution that was more romantic than political. Both were convinced that Russian society was to be recreated from top to bottom and that Fascism must be fought against at any cost.
 
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EAN : 9782221135013
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 360
Size : 1 x 215 mm
Robert Laffont