Benoît Duteurtre

Benoît Duteurtre (2015)

Benoît Duteurtre (born March 20, 1960 in Sainte-Adresse , Département Seine-Maritime ) is a French music critic and writer.

Life

Duteurtre is the son of Jean-Claude Duteurtre and his wife Marie-Claire Georges and great-grandson of the politician René Coty . He completed his school days at the Catholic private school, Collège Saint-Joseph in Le Havre .

In 1975 Duteurtre asked the playwright Armand Salacrou to read one of his texts. He was enthusiastic, encouraged him to continue writing and promised to support him as much as possible. Since Duteurtres's musical talent was recognized and promoted at school, he preferred music to writing for the time being. In 1977 he began to study music at the University of Rouen . In the same year he met Karlheinz Stockhausen and the following year Iannis Xenakis . In 1979 Duteurtre took the opportunity to study for a month with György Ligeti and he also received a degree in music.

By his own admission, Duteurtre began to see writing as a kind of counterpoint to music. In 1982 he had Samuel Beckett read his text Nuit and this immediately campaigned for a publication in the Revue Minuit . During this time Duteurtre settled in Paris and performed as a pianist at the Théâtre des Amandiers ( Nantes , Loire-Atlantique ).

As a writer, Duteurtre made a very successful debut in 1985 with his first novel Sommeil . As a result, he published a novel almost every year and also appeared regularly as an essayist to the public. He publishes in literary magazines such as Nouvelle Revue Française , L'Atelier du roman or L'Infini as well as in magazines such as the Revue des Deux Mondes or Commentaire.

Honors

• 2001 Prix ​​Médicis for his novel Le voyage en France
• 2012 Prix ​​Claude-Farrère for his novel L'été 76

Works (selection)

As an author

Novels

• Sommeil perdu . Grasset, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-246-35121-9 .
• Les vaches . Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-7021-1607-8 .
• L'amoureux malgré lui . Gallimard, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-07-071654-6 .
• Tout doit disparaître. Gallimard, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-07-072626-6 .
• Gaieté parisienne . Gallimard, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-07-074406-X .
• Drôle de temps . Gallimard, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-07-074808-1 .
• Les malentendus . Gallimard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-07-075447-2 .
• Speaking of the vaches . La Table Ronde, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7103-2558-6 .
• Le voyage en France . Gallimard, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-07-075896-6 .
• Service Clientèle . Gallimard, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-07-030569-4 .
• La rebelle . Gallimard, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-07-073500-1 .
• La petite fille et la cigarette . Fayard, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-213-62489-5 .
• Chemins de fer . Fayard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-213-62845-9 .
• La cité heureuse . Fayard, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-213-63420-3 .
• Les pieds dans l'eau . Gallimard, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-07-077617-7 .
• Ballets roses. Les lingerie de times 1958 . Grasset, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-246-68761-0 .
• Le retour du général . Fayard, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-213-62997-1 .
• L'été 76 . Gallimard, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-07-012523-4 .
• À nous deux, Paris! Fayard, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-213-62998-8 .
• L'ordinateur du paradis . Gallimard, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-07-013417-5 .
• Livre pour adultes. Gallimard, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-07-014576-8 .
• En marche! Gallimard, Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-07-270507-6 .

Essays

• Requiem pour une avant-garde . Laffont, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-221-07559-5 .
• L'operette en France . Fayard, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-213-62578-2 . (EA 1997)
• Le Grand Embouteillage. Rocher (Editions du), Paris 2002, ISBN 978-2-268-03613-7 .
• Ma belle époque. Bartillat, Paris 2007 ISBN 978-2-841-00400-3 .
• Polémiques. Fayard, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-213-67714-9 .
• La nostalgia des buffets de gare. Payot, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-228-91334-8 .
• Pourquoi je préfère rester chez moi . Fayard, Paris 2017, ISBN 978-2-213-69904-2

As editor

• 150 ans de musique française. 1798-1939 . Actes Sud, Arles 1991, ISBN 2-86869-754-2 .
• Paris, capitale de la musique. 1870-1940. Actes du colloque, Paris, May 30th, 2002 . Rosa Bonheur, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-907519-67-0 .
• André Messager . Ouvrage collectif publié à l'occasion du 150e anniversaire de la naissance d'André Messager . Klincksieck, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-252-03451-3 .
• Balade en Seine-Maritime . Editions Alexandrines, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-912319-37-1 .
• “Un siècle d'opéra. De la mort de Verdi à nos jours ”. Actes du colloque organized in Paris on May 17, 2001 . Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-907519-67-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inspired by this work, the director Gilles Nadeau created the documentation Paris, Vienna, Berlin for Arte in 2008 . A short history of the operetta (Part 1: The 19th century. A new genre is emerging. Part 2: The 20th century. About money and women. )