Frédérick Tristan

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Frédérick Tristan (* as Jean-Paul Frédéric Tristan Baron June 11, 1931 in Sedan ) is a French writer. In 1983 he received the Prix ​​Goncourt for his novel Les Égarés .

He also used the pseudonyms Danielle Sarréra (a fictional existentialist poet who died young) and Mary London.

Life

Frédérick Tristan is the son of a manufacturer of textile machines and was himself a textile engineer, who was also on long trips and stays in Southeast Asia (Vietnam) and China (including when he wrote his novel Les Égares).

In 1940 his group was attacked by German airmen while they were fleeing, which led to partial amnesia.

In 1948 he published his first volume of poetry (Orphée assassiné). Some of his novels have fantastic content, are based on historical fictions or are set in China. It is counted as part of nouvelle fiction , a term that was introduced by Jean-Luc Moreau in 1992 (in addition to Tristan, this includes Patrick Carré , Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud , François Coupry , Hubert Haddad , Jean Levi , Marc Petit ). The movement is close to Magical Realism and Tristan is influenced by Surrealism.

In addition to novels, he also published essays and poetry. In 2010 he published memoirs (Réfugié de nulle part). In it he also states that the Prix Goncourt also brought him bad luck. Actually, it would have been the turn of the publisher Grasset (with the candidate Elie Wiesel) for the award. Instead, the award went to a small publisher, Balland, which got into trouble because it had to print 300,000 copies after the Prix Goncourt. The novel was also deliberately panned, with the literary director of the empty Grasset publishing house playing an important role after Tristan. The novel Les Égarés is about two men who met during the First World War, the outwardly brilliant Englishman Jonathan Absalon Varlet and Cyril Pumpaker, who is about to publish his first novel and agrees to publish it under the pseudonym Chesterfield through his new friend Varlet to do. This promotes the fame of the author Chesterfield in public, but his books come from Pumpaker.

In addition to the Prix Goncourt, he received the Grand Prix du roman de la Société des gens de lettres in 1981 for Les Tribulations héroïques de Balthasar Kober and in 2000 for his complete works.

In the 1950s he dealt with graphics under Joël Picton. From 1983 to 2001 he was professor of early Christian and Renaissance iconography at the ICART art school (École des métiers de la culture et du commerce de l'art Paris) in Paris.

He is a high mason. Some of his novels are also about Freemasons (such as his detective novel Un meurtre chez les francs-maçons under the pseudonym Mary London). His wife Marie-France Tristan is a specialist in Italian literature (especially Giambattista Marino ).

Works (selection)

  • Naissance d'un specter , Bourgois 1969; Fayard 2000
  • Le Singe égal du ciel , Bourgois 1972; Fayard 1994
  • La Geste serpentine, La Différence , 1978; Fayard 2003
  • Les Tribulations heroes de Balthasar Kober , Balland 1980; Fayard 1999
    • German edition: In the wake of the alchemist. Translated from the French by Michael Gramberg . Zebulon 1992
  • La Cendre et la Foudre , Balland 1982
  • Les Égarés , 1983
  • L'Énigme du Vatican , Fayard 1995
    • German edition: The secret of the Vatican. Novel. Translated into German by Karin Meddekis , Bastei-Lübbe 1995
  • Stéphanie Phanistée , Fayard 1997
  • Les Obsèques prodigieuses d'Abraham Radjec , Fayard 2000
  • Dieu, l'Univers et Madame Berthe , Fayard 2002
  • L'Amour pèlerin , Fayard 2004
  • Un infini singulier , Fayard 2004
  • Le Manège des fous , Fayard 2005
  • Dernières Nouvelles de l'Au-delà , Fayard 2007
  • Christos, enquête sur l'impossible , Fayard 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alain Guyard, review by Jean-Luc Moreau. 1992. La Nouvelle Fiction, Paris, Critérion 1992
  2. ↑ He published (according to his memoir) initially in small publishers such as Bourgeois and Balland, since his style did not fit into the time of the Nouveau Roman
  3. ^ Jacques Chaboud, Frédérick Tristan: un grand auteur maçon , 2015
personal data
SURNAME Tristan, Frédérick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baron, Jean-Paul Frédéric Tristan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Sedan