Jacques-Laurent Bost

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Jacques-Laurent Bost (born May 6, 1916 in Le Havre , Département Seine-Maritime , † September 21, 1990 in Paris ) was a French journalist, writer and translator.

Live and act

Bost came from a middle-class background, his father Jean-Augustin Bost was a pastor of the Reformed Church in Le Havre. He completed school in his hometown and then went to PAris to study at the Sorbonne .

There he soon made the acquaintance of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir . Through his older brother Pierre (1901–1975) he discovered film for himself and remained loyal to this genre throughout his life. In 1939, during his studies, Bost was drafted into the army. He was wounded and during his recovery period he married the Polish student Olga Kosakiewicz (1915–1983), whom he had met through Sartre.

Although Bost's wife worked for the Resistance after the German occupation , he does not seem to have been ready for it himself. During the Second World War he made the acquaintance of the writer Albert Camus and after the liberation Camus brought him to the editorial office of Combat magazine . One of his most important publications there was Bost's report on the Dachau concentration camp .

Bost was one of the founders of the magazine Les Temps Modernes and he also published in L'Express magazine under the pseudonym "Claude Tartare" in addition to his own name . His nephew Serge Lafaurie also worked for L'Express and in their rejection of the Algerian war , the two were among the signatories of the 121st manifesto on September 6, 1960 .

In November 1978 the publisher brought Jean Clémentin Bost to the editorial office of the magazine Le Canard enchaîné and he stayed there until the end of his life. Jacques-Laurent Bost died on September 21, 1990 in Paris, where he found his final resting place.

Honors

Works (selection)

as an author
  • Trois mois aux États-Unis . Édition de Minuit, Paris 1946.
  • L'Espagne au jour le jour . Éditions Morihien, Paris 1951.
  • Le dernier des métiers . Gallimard, Paris 1977.
as a screenwriter
  • Jean Delannoy (Director): The game is over . 1947 (based on the drama Les jeux sont faits by Jean-Paul Sartre).
  • Marcel Cravenne (director): Dans de mort. 1948 (based on the play Totentanz by August Strindberg ).
  • Fernand Rivers (Director): Les mains sales. 1951 (based on the drama The Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre).
  • Marcello Pagliero (director): The honorable lady. 1952 (based on the eponymous drama by Jean-Paul Sartre).
  • Yves Ciampi (director): The doctor and the girl (Le guérisseur). 1953.
  • John Berry (director): Hard fists, hot blood (Ça va barder). 1955.
  • Yves Ciampi (Director): The heroes are tired (Les heros sont fatigues). 1954.
  • John Berry (director): Kisses, balls and canals (Je suis un sentimental). 1955.
  • John Berry (Director): The Great Seducer (Don Juan). 1956.
  • Yves Ciampi (director): The storm breaks loose (Le vent se lève). 1959.
  • Mauro Bolognini (director): We from the street (Les garçons). 1959 (based on the novel Ragazzi di vita by Pier Paolo Pasolini )
  • Patrice Dally (Director): Le tout pour le tout. 1963.
  • Alexandre Astruc (Director): La longue marche. 1963.
as translator

literature

  • Axel Madsen: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. The story of an unusual love . Reinbek, Rowohlt 1994, ISBN 3-499-14921-4 .
  • Perrine Simon-Nahum: Jean-Augustin Bost. In: Patrick Cabanel, André Encrevé (ed.): Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours, Volume 1 . Éditions de Paris, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-84621-190-1 , pp. 404-405.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reports that first appeared in Combat magazine .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bost, Jacques-Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Havre , Seine-Maritime department
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1990
Place of death Paris