André Pieyre de Mandiargues
André Pieyre de Mandiargues (born March 14, 1909 in Paris , † December 13, 1991 there ) was a French writer.
He is considered a companion of André Breton and was influenced by Surrealism and German Romanticism . In 1967 he received France's most famous literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, for his novel The Edge ( La Marge , 1967) . His book Das Motorrad was filmed in 1968 with Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon and was considered a scandalous film .
He had been married to the Italian painter and sculptor Bona Tibertelli de Pisis (1926-2000), the niece of the painter Filippo De Pisis , since 1950 and had a daughter with her.
He found his final resting place in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
Works (selection)
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Smoldering embers. Stories. Übers. ( Feu de braise. ) Ernst Sander. Insel Verlag , Frankfurt 1964 a. ö., most recently Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1995
- from it: Rodogune, in Frauke Rother, Klaus Möckel Ed .: French storytellers from 7 decades. Vol. 2, Volk und Welt Verlag , Berlin 1983, 1985, pp. 396-411
- The edge . Translated from the French. and with an after. by Rainer G. Schmidt. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2012
literature
- Heide Friebel: The utopian dimension in the stories André Pieyre de Mandiargues' , Winter, Heidelberg 1975, ISBN 3533024172
Web links
- Literature by and about André Pieyre de Mandiargues in the catalog of the German National Library
- André de Pieyre Mandiargues in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mandiargues, André Pieyre de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1991 |
| Place of death | Paris |