Francis Berthelot

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Francis Berthelot (2010)

Francis Berthelot (born July 27, 1946 in Paris ) is a French writer, known as an author of science fiction and fantasy and as a composer of romantic and fantastic ballet works .

Life

Berthelot's father is a nuclear physicist , his mother was a teacher and later a preschool director. After attending the Lycée Louis-le-Grand , he studied molecular biology at the École polytechnique from 1966 . He then worked as a researcher at the CNRS at the Institut de biologie physico-chimique , at the Institut de biologie moléculaire (now the Institut Jacques-Monod ) and finally at the Institut Pasteur . In 1970, after two years of psychoanalysis and a crisis, he decided to renounce his homosexualityto confess. In 1975 he received his doctorate with a thesis on transfer RNA . He then worked in the neurochemistry department at the Collège de France until 1989 .

Berthelot had been interested in music, especially the works of Prokofiev , and in literature from a young age , and in particular in fantastic literature and its border areas. In 1976 he decided to become an author himself and in 1980 his first novel was published, which was awarded the Prix ​​de la SF de Metz in the same year . La Lune noire d'Orion is a science fiction novel that is set in the distant future on the human-populated planets around the suns of the constellation Orion and is about the persecution of the minority of the "Holoms", the descendants of those who were once called "homosexuals" "Designated sexual-cultural deviants. The inspiration for the novel was a trip to the USA, which he took in 1977 with his friend Jean Fournier. In 1984 he met the actor Luc Alexander, with whom he lived for the next seven years until his death in 1991. In 1986 he joined the Limite group , whose book of short stories Malgré le monde , published under this pseudonym, was published in 1987. Berthelot contributed the story Le Parc zoonirique , which was awarded the 1988 Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction Française .

From 1989 Berthelot worked scientifically with literature. He looked at the Center de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL) with literary theory , narratology and the boundaries between mainstream - realism and literary fantasy . In 1995, his essay La métamorphose généralisée: du poème mythologique à la science-fiction on mythopoesis in science fiction won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire . In 1997 he met Marc Bernard, who was to be his partner from then on.

In connection with his work on the border and gray areas between mainstream and fantasy, for which terms such as slipstream , interstitial fiction and others were suggested in the Anglo-Saxon field , Berthelot described literature that crosses genre borders in 2001 in Parole et dialogue dans le roman , initially as fictions transgressives to then speak of transfictions in 2005 in Bibliothèque de l'entre-mondes . In 2003 Berthelot organized, together with John Pier and Jean-Marie Schaeffer La Narratologie, aujourd'hui , a month-long narratological seminar at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales . In 2007 he withdrew from the academic field in order to devote himself exclusively to writing.

In 2011, after completing the ninth and last volume of his novel cycle Le Rêve du Démiurge , he finally turned away from literature and turned to music. With the help of composition software, he began to compose ballets , the subjects of which were in the range of the subjects he had already treated in literary terms. So came about:

  • L'Inaccessible. Ballet in five pictures. Op. 1, 2015 (Musea, 1 CD, 2015)
  • Kaël and Orian. Ballet in three acts. op. 2, 2018 (Musea, 1 CD, 2018)
  • Le Sang du hautbois. Op. 3, 2014 (Musea, 1 CD, 2019)
  • Le Chevalier obscur. Op. 4, 2015
  • De l'espoir à la nuit  : Azùn-Daar. Op 5, 2017
  • Nathan et Selma. Op. 6, 2017 (Musea, 1 CD, 2018)
  • Le Seuil. Op. 7, 2018

In 2016, Berthelot's partner Bernard was diagnosed with myelofibrosis , which soon required extensive care, which Berthelot took over from November until Bernard's death in April 2019.

Awards

  • 1980 Prix ​​de la SF de Metz for the novel La Lune noire d'Orion
  • 1987 Prix ​​Rosny aîné for the novel La Ville au fond de l'œil
  • 1988 Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction Française for the story Le Parc zoonirique (published under the community pseudonym Limite )
  • 1991 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the novel Rivage des intouchables
  • 1995 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the essay La métamorphose généralisée: du poème mythologique à la science-fiction
  • 2001 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the youth novel La Maison brisée
  • 2004 Prix ​​Masterton for the novel Nuit de colère
  • 2004 Prix Masterton for the story Le Serpent à collerette
  • 2005 Prix Masterton for the Forêts secrètes collection
  • 2009 Prix Masterton, special prize for Forêts secrètes

bibliography

Khanaor (series of novels)
  • 1 Solstice de fer (1983)
  • 2 Équinoxe de cendre (1983)
  • Khanaor (collective edition of 1 and 2, 2001)
Le Rêve du Démiurge (series of novels)
  • 1 L'Ombre d'un soldier (1994)
  • 2 Le juggler interrompu (1996)
  • 3 Mélusath (1999)
  • Le Rêve du Démiurge, l'intégrale - 1/3 (collective edition from 1–3, 1999)
  • 4 Le Jeu du cormoran (2001)
  • 5 Nuit de colère (2003)
  • 6 Hadès Palace (2005)
  • Le Rêve du Démiurge, l'intégrale - 2/3 (collective edition from 4–6, 2005)
  • 7 Le Petit Cabaret des morts (2008)
  • 8 Carnaval sans roi (2011)
  • 9 Abîme du rêve (2015)
  • Le Rêve du Démiurge, l'intégrale - 3/3 (collective edition from 7–9, 2015)
Novels
  • La Lune noire d'Orion (1980)
  • La Ville au fond de l'œil (1986)
  • Rivage des intouchables (1990)
  • La Maison Brisée (1999)
collection
  • La Boîte à chimères (2000)
  • Forêts secrètes (2004)
stories
  • L'Os érectile (1985)
  • Le Parc zoonirique (1987, published under the community pseudonym Limite )
  • Le Point de vue de la cafetière (1987)
  • Perplexités d'un visiteur mort (1987)
  • Vers le dieu Iceberg (1994)
  • L'Homme de la mer Morte (1996)
  • Le Condamné à cinq dimensions (1996)
  • Les Rhinocéros bleus (1997)
  • Le Triton (1998)
  • Les Camionneurs de Noël (1998)
  • Mélusath (novel) (1999)
  • Mérélune (2001)
  • Peinture de nuit (2002)
  • La Gantière et l'équarrisseur (2003)
  • Le Serpent à Collerette (2003)
  • La Nouvelle Alice (ou les bonheurs de l'impertinence) (2004)
  • Le Coeur à trois temps (2004)
  • Implosion (2004)
  • Peter Paon et la Fée Crochette (2004)
  • Rire de verre (2004)
  • Le Livre et le Portail (2005)
  • Mata Napari (2005)
  • La Symphonie inaccessible (2006)
  • Le Cimetière des toucans (2006)
  • Le Questeur (2007)
  • Au seuil de Loïkermaa (2009)
  • LXIX (2009)
  • Sextuor pour solo (2010)
Anthology (as editor)
  • Colloque de Cerisy. Science-fiction et imaginaires contemporains (2007)
Non-fiction
  • Contribution à l'étude des mécanismes de reconnaissance des acides ribonucléiques de transfert en systèmes procaryotes et eucaryotes (dissertation, 1975)
  • La métamorphose généralisée: du poème mythologique à la science-fiction (1993)
  • Le corps du héros: Pour une sémiotique de l'incarnation romanesque (1997)
  • Parole et dialogue dans le roman (2001)
  • You rêve au roman (2003)
  • Bibliothèque de l'entre-mondes (2005)
  • Colloque de Cérisy 2006: Science-Fiction et imaginaire contemporains (with Philippe Clermont, 2007)

Web links

Commons : Francis Berthelot  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contribution à l'étude des mécanismes de reconnaissance des acides ribonucléiques de transfert en systèmes procaryotes et eucaryotes. Université Paris VII, 1975,
personal data
SURNAME Berthelot, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Limit (community pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France