Louis Calaferte
Louis Calaferte (born July 14, 1928 in Turin ; died May 2, 1994 in Dijon ) was a French writer of Italian origin.
Life
Louis Calaferte grew up in Lyon and initially worked in a factory during the war. At the age of 19 he went to Paris, where he made a living as an actor. Joseph Kessel took care of him and in 1952 saw to it that his autobiographical novel Requiem des innocents was published ; Partage des vivants followed in 1953 . In 1956 he moved back to the Lyon area. He became a freelance writer and found a job with local radio, and from 1974 with ORTF .
From 1984 he lived in Blaisy-Bas in the Dijon area, where he died in 1994 at the age of 65. His wife Guillemette edited more of his writings from the estate. In addition to novels, Calaferte wrote plays, poems and essays. His book Septentrion (1963) was put on the index for pornography .
Jérôme de Missolz filmed Calaferte's late work La Mécanique des femmes (1992).
Works (selection)
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Requiem des innocents . 1952
- Requiem for the innocent . From the French by Dieter Hornig. Zurich: Diaphanes, 2015
- Partage des vivants . 1953
- Septentrion . 1963
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No man's land . Gallimard, 1963
- No. man's land . Translated from the French by Rudolf Wittkopf. Frankfurt a. M. Suhrkamp 1966
- Satori . Gallimard, 1968
- Rosa mystica . Gallimard, 1968
- Portrait de l'enfant . Denoël, 1969
- Hinterland . Denoël, 1971
- Limitrophe . Denoël, 1972
- La vie parallèle . Denoël, 1974
- Episodes de la vie des mantes religieuses . Denoël, 1976
- Voyage stellaire . Denoël, 1977
- Campagnes . Denoël, 1979
- Tu as bien fait de venir, Paul . Stuttgart: Klett, 1983.
- Ébauche d'un autoportrait . Denoël, 1983
- Un riche, trois pauvres . Hesse, 1986
- L'Incarnation . Denoël, 1987
- Promenade dans un parc . 1987
- Memento mori . Gallimard, 1988
- Les sables du temps . Essay. Paris, Editions Le tout pour le tout, 1988
- La Mécanique des femmes . Gallimard, 1992
- Droit de cité . Essay. Gallimard, 1992
- C'est la guerre Gallimard, 1993
- L'homme vivant . Essay. Gallimard, 1994
- Perspectives . Essay. Hesse, 1995
- Le monologue . Gallimard, 1996
- Droguerie du ciel . Hesse, 1996
- Kind signal . Essay. Hesse, 1996
- Le sang violet de l'améthyste . Gallimard, 1998
- Maître Faust . Gallimard, 2000
- Villageoise suite . Hesse, 2000
- Les fontaines silencieuses . Gallimard, 2005
- The last honor. The funnel. It's good that you came, Paul . From the Franz. By Frank G. Hirschmann. Munich: Desch, 1984
- 26 booklets of Carnets
- 12 volumes of poetry
- 6-volume edition of the plays
literature
- Patrick Amine: Une vie, une déflagration: entretiens avec Louis Calaferte . Paris: Denoël, 1985
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis Calaferte in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Louis Calaferte in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Louis Calaferte in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Louis Calaferte , short vita at éditions Hesse (fr)
- Louis Calaferte , brief vita at Diaphanes
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Mécanique des femmes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Calaferte, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1994 |
| Place of death | Dijon |