Denis Belloc

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Denis Belloc (born 1949 in La Rochelle ; died December 31, 2013 in Paris ) was a French novelist and painter .

Life

Belloc was born Denis Quillivic in La Rochelle, France in 1949. Little is known about his life. However, Belloc's books are said to be strongly autobiographical .

The novel Neon , published in 1987, roughly tells the life story of Belloc: the early death of his father, the mistreatment by his stepfather, a stay in a correctional facility and prison, the drug line and the slow approach to his mother, until finally he saw painting as an important new perspective discovered for himself. Suzanne from 1988 is dedicated to the biography of Belloc's mother, while in 1989 in Päckn he focused on his time on the drug line.

Julien (1994) was adapted for the cinema screen by Sandrine Veysset in 1998 under the title Victor… pendant qu'il est trop tard .

reception

Denis Belloc met the zeitgeist of the 1990s with his simple language. Tempo magazine called him the shooting star in French literature .

Bruno Preisendörfer wrote in the Tagesspiegel : For me, the novels of D. Belloc are among the great lierarian events of the last few years because they portray life "at the bottom" in an aesthetic language that goes beyond social kitsch and brightly illustrated realism: these texts say the truth in a new artistic simplicity.

The Giessener Anzeiger sees in Belloc the congenial legacy of Georges Simenon , in terms of economic writing discipline as well as in psychological acuteness and in the human attention to detail.

Works in German

  • Neon (Original title: Néons , 1987). From d. Franz. By François Guesnet a. Ulrich Hartmann. Beck and Glückler, Freiburg 1989, ISBN 978-3-924175-08-5
  • Suzanne (Original title: Suzanne , 1988). From d. Franz. By Ulrich Hartmann u. François Guesnet. Beck and Glückler, Freiburg 1989, ISBN 978-3-924175-11-5
  • Päckn (Original title: Képas , 1989). From d. Franz. By François Guesnet a. Ulrich Hartmann. Beck and Glückler, Freiburg 1991, ISBN 978-3-924175-69-6
  • Julien (Original title: Les ailes de Julien , 1994). From d. Franz. By Ulrich Hartmann u. Thomas Wippenbeck. Beck and Glückler, Freiburg 1995, ISBN 978-3-89470-127-7

The above four titles were published as paperbacks between 1995 and 1997 by Rowohlt Verlag.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bibliothèque nationale de France (website in French), last accessed on June 18, 2019
  2. ^ David R. Godine , Bellocs , UK publisher, last accessed June 18, 2019
  3. ↑ See the blurb of the paperback edition of Neon , Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1995, ISBN 3-499-13624-4
  4. ↑ a b quoted from the paperback edition of Neon , Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1995
  5. ↑ quoted from the paperback edition by Julien , Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1997, ISBN 3-499-13876-X
personal data
SURNAME Belloc, Denis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quillivic, Denis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH La Rochelle
DATE OF DEATH December 31 2013
Place of death Paris