The Heart by Marc Petitjean

Author:Marc Petitjean [Petitjean, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2020-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

After Frida left France, probably because war was about to break out, my father received no further response from the deputies. Nothing was achieved by Diego either. Mexican passports were never issued for the four hundred refugees, and the project fell apart.

Telegram sent by Frida Kahlo in Paris to Diego Rivera, March 23, 1939

While Frida is in Paris, Diego Rivera goes about settling his accounts with Trotsky in Mexico. He claims there has been a misunderstanding on the subject of a correspondence with André Breton, but in fact he is having his revenge for the idyll between Trotsky and his wife that he witnessed in 1937 and that, unfaithful husband though he himself may be, he cannot accept. He asks Trotsky to leave the blue house. Frida will second this.

Frida confides to my father that she loathes Trotsky. She thinks him a rather disgusting old man with wandering hands. She does not hate him as a person but hates the affair she had with him. She is wildly admiring of the founder of the Red Army, the key player in the October Revolution and the historian, and would in all likelihood be happy with a platonic relationship, but it was just as it had been with Diego: she was abused by a man whom she saw as a father figure, a guide, a reference. He wanted sex and that did not trouble her, even though it was not what she wanted. But perhaps in the back of her mind there was also an urge—however conscious or subconscious it may have been—to have revenge on Diego.

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