Eduardo Manet

Eduardo Manet (2012)

Eduardo Manet (born June 19, 1930 in Santiago de Cuba , according to his own information; March 19, 1927 in Havana , according to official registration) is a French-speaking Cuban writer.

Life

Manet wrote film, theater and music reviews in the late 1940s and published his first volume of poetry in 1947. As a student at the University of Havana , he was active in various theaters, his first play was performed 1948th

In 1951 he went to Paris, where he studied singing, dance and pantomime for three years at the École Pédagogique . He also wrote articles on French theater for a Cuban magazine. He then moved to Italy and graduated from the University of Perugia as a teacher of Italian language and literature. During this time the novella Spirale was written in French.

In 1956 he returned to France and joined the theater company around Jacques Lecoq . There were plays and another novella. In 1960 he returned to Cuba at the invitation of Fidel and Raúl Castro , whom he knew from his student days.

Here he became general director of the Conjunto Dramático Nacional at the Cuban National Theater and first made known the Brechtian theater concept, later the concept of the “poor theater” by Eugenio Barba and Jerzy Grotowski in Cuba.

From 1964 he worked as a director at the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) and published its magazine Cine Cubano. With Un Cri sur le Rivage he wrote the first novella about the Cuban Revolution .

After the Prague Spring , he left Cuba and settled in Paris. He founded a workshop for film and theater here and from 1973 to 1979 led the improvisation group "Groupe d'Expression Libre" with his wife Véronique Petit.

In 1979 he became a French citizen. He was active in the intellectual opposition to the Castro regime and in 1991 became the founding president of "Cuba démocratique". In 1997 he was honored as Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and became an honorary member of the Canadian Académie des Lettres du Québec .

Works

biography

• Mes années Cuba . Grasset, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-246-62781-8 (autobiography)

Novels

• Les Étrangers in la ville. Julliard, Paris 1960
• Un cri sur le rivage. Julliard, Paris 1963
• La Mauresque. Gallimard, Paris 1982 ISBN 2-07-020804-4
• Zone interdite. Gallimard, Paris 1984 ISBN 2-07-070215-4
• L'île du lézard vert.Flammarion , Paris 1992 ISBN 2-02-020504-1 Prix ​​Goncourt des lycéens 1992
• Habanera. Flammarion, Paris 1994 ISBN 2-08-066902-8
• Rhapsody cubaine. Grasset, Paris 1996 ISBN 2-246-53361-9
• D'amour et d'exil. Grasset, Paris 1999 ISBN 2-246-55211-7
• La say you sing. Grasset, Paris 2001 ISBN 2-246-57421-8
• Maestro! Laffont, Paris 2002 ISBN 2-221-09202-3
• Ma vie de Jésus. Grasset, Paris 2005 ISBN 2-246-57431-5
• La Conquistadora. Laffont, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-221-09872-2
• Un Français au cœur dans l'ouragan cubain. Fayard, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-213-62797-5

Dramas

• Les nonnes. Paraboles en deux actes.
  • Übers. Ruth Henry, Harald Schmunk: The nuns. S. Fischer-Theaterverlag, Frankfurt 1971
• Eux ou la prize du pouvoir. Gallimard, Paris 1971
• Le jour où Mary Shelley rencontra Charlotte Brontë . L'Avant-Scène, Paris 1971
• Holocaustum ou le borgne. Gallimard, Paris 1972
• L'autre Don Juan . Gallimard, Paris 1973
• Madras, la nuit où… Gallimard, Paris 1975
• Lady rhinestone. Pièce en trois volets. L'Avant-Scène, Paris 1977
• Un balcon sur les Andes, Mendoza en Argentine…, Ma'déa (together with Michèle Armand Barthélemy and Fatima Soualhia ). Gallimard, Paris 1985 ISBN 2-07-070526-9
• Histoire de Maheu le boucher. Édition Papiers, Paris 1986 ISBN 2-86943-069-8
• Les chiennes. Théâtre ouvert, Paris 1987 ISBN 2-904742-16-6
• Monsieur Lovestar et son voisin de palier . Actes sud, Arles 1995 ISBN 2-7427-0380-2
• Viva Verdi. Actes sud, Arles 1998 ISBN 2-7427-0464-7

literature

• Phyllis Slatin: The novels and plays of Eduardo Manet: an adventure in multiculturalism . Penn State Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-271-01949-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Eduardo Manet in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eduardo Manet in the Internet Movie Database (English)