Jean-Claude Brisville

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Jean-Claude Brisville
Born28 May 1922
Died11 August 2014(2014-08-11) (aged 92)
Occupation(s)Writer
Playwright

Jean-Claude Brisville (28 May 1922 – 11 August 2014) was a French writer, playwright, novelist and author for children. A screenwriter, in particular for the film

Académie française
in 1989 for all his body of work.

Recognition came later, in the same year, with

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord during an evening in 1815 when they decided together to impose a monarchical regime on invaded France. It was the film adaptation that Édouard Molinaro realized in 1992, Claude Brasseur taking the role of Fouché and Claude Rich
that of Talleyrand, which made him discover by the general public.

Biography

The son of an industrialist

Hachette publishing house then became a reader for the Éditions Julliard. In 1957, he wrote and published the first study about Albert Camus[3] who made him his last secretary until 1959.[4] The family responsibilities made him renounce the risky profession of playwright and devote himself entirely to that of publisher.[2] In 1964, after he became a literary director, he made Ernst Jünger known in France by publishing a new edition of the "Journal de guerre", thanks to the determination of Christian Bourgois [fr
]

In 1970, he established a lasting friendship with Julien Gracq who accepted the adaptation he wrote for the television production that Jean-Christophe Averty did of the Beau Ténébreux.[2]

In 1976, he was appointed director of

Napoléon and Hudson Lowe for tragic destiny and honest pettiness. It is in L'Antichambre that he expressed all his melancholy for a French language in the process of disappearance.[2]

In 1984, he approached René Char,[2] a brother in writing of Albert Camus. Starting in 1997, he began a work of "anamnesis"[2] "Not to be alien to oneself"[2] which he published, faithful to existentialism, in the form of fragments of the past which related less to his person than to their times,[2] memories mixed with aphorisms with pessimistic humor.[2]

Jean-Claude Brisville was a Chevalier of the

Légion d'honneur and Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
.

Works

Theatre

Essays

  • 1948: Prologue
  • 1954: La Présence réelle
  • 1959: Camus, la Bibliothèque idéale, NRF Éditions Gallimard
  • 1998: De mémoire (Souvenirs)
  • 2006: Quartiers d'hiver (Souvenirs)
  • 2009: Rien n'est jamais fini (Souvenirs)

Novels

  • 1954: D'un amour, Prix Sainte-Beuve
  • 1962: La Fuite au Danemark
  • 1972: La Petite Marie, published by Gallimard, under the pseudonym Sylvain Saulnier)
  • 1976: La zone d'ombre
  • 1982: La Révélation d'une voix et d'un nom
  • 2002: Vive Henri IV

Tales

  • 1975: Les Trèfle de Longue-Oreille. Première aventure : Petit Trèfle en péril (Éditions Grasset Jeunesse)
  • 1975: Les Trèfle de Longue-Oreille. Deuxième aventure : Lançons le cerf-volant (Grasset Jeunesse)
  • 1975: Les Trèfle de Longue-Oreille. Troisième aventure : Et hop dans le chapeau (Grasset Jeunesse)
  • 1973: Un hiver dans la vie de Gros-Ours (Grasset Jeunesse)
  • 1977: L'Enfant qui voulait voir la mer (Jean-Pierre Delarge éditeur, Prix des 50 plus beaux livres 1977)
  • 1978: Oleg, le léopard des neiges (tale for children)
  • 1981: Le Ciel inévitable, illustrations by Jean Garonnaire [fr] (Éditions de l’amitié)
  • 1981: Oleg retrouve son royaume (tale for children)

Screenwriter

Actor

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Jérôme Garcin, Brisville : agent d'entretiens, L'Express, Paris, 31 August 1995.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j François Busnel, Entretien avec Jean-Claude Brisville, L'Express, Paris, 1 March 2006.
  3. ISSN 1762-4983
    .
  4. ^ R. Quilliot, Roger Quilliot fait le point in Albert Camus n°18, p. 132, Les Lettres Modernes, Paris, 1999.

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