Pascal Lainé

Pascal Lainé (born May 10, 1942 in Anet , Département Eure-et-Loir ) is a French writer.

Live and act

In his childhood Lainé was always sick. During this time he discovered the novels by Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo , as he was able to pass the time very well with their works. Even as a schoolboy he developed a weakness for philosophy and was interested in a. for Martin Heidegger , Immanuel Kant and Maurice Merleau-Ponty .

Through philosophy, he also began to be interested in Karl Marx (→ Marxism ) and after learning English , Lainé learned Russian - according to his own admission - to be able to read the original of Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski and Anton Pavlovitsch Chekhov .

Lainé studied a. a. Philosophy at the École normal supérieure (ENS) of Saint-Cloud ( Département Hauts-de-Seine ). After successfully completing his studies, he got a job as a teacher at the Lycée technique of Saint-Quentin ( Département Aisne ). After a promotion he moved to Paris to the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and in 1974 he went to Villetaneuse ( Département Seine-Saint-Denis ) to the Institut universitaire de technologie.

In 1972 Lainé conceived and directed a sociological study on the identity of French women. A research group surveyed 1,100 women for this purpose. The results and conclusions of the study are the subject of his publication La femme et ses images . Lainé's novel La Dentellière , for which he received the Prix ​​Goncourt , is directly related to them .

As a longstanding member of the Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD), he also acted as its managing director for some time.

Honors

• 1971 Prix ​​Médicis for his novel L'Irrévolution
• 1974 Prix ​​Goncourt for his novel La Dentellière

Works (selection)

Scripts

• Christian Gion (Director): In the Garden of Torment . 1976 (based on the novel Le jardin des supplices by Octave Mirbeau )
• Jérôme Foulon (Director): Été brulant . 1995 (based on a novel by Eduard von Keyserling ).
• Jean-Louis Benoît (Director): La fidèle infidèle . 1995 (based on the short story Deux Oiseaux Bleus by DH Lawrence ).

stories

• Il ne s'est rien passé . Fayard, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-213-60185-2 .

Essays

• Le commerce des apparences . Fayard, PAris 1997, ISBN 2-213-59977-7 .
• Sacré Goncourt! Fayard, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-213-60762-1 .
• Un clou chasse l'Autre, ou La vie d'Artiste . Édition Punctum, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-35116-014-2 .
• Maman, quand je serai grand je veux être patron du CAC 40 . Gutenberg, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-35236-034-6 .

Scientific work

• La femme et ses images . Stock, Paris 1974, ISBN 2-234-00159-3 .

Detective novels

• Inspector Lester . Ramsay, Paris 1985ff.

1. Plutôt deux fois qu'une . 1985, ISBN 2-7152-1369-7 .
2. Trois petits meurtres et puis s'en . 1985, ISBN 2-85956-445-4 .
3. Monsieur vous obliez votre cadavre . 1990, ISBN 2-07-038276-1 .
4. L'assassin est une legend . 1987, ISBN 2-85956-587-6 .

• Collection: Les enquêtes de l'inspecteur Lester . Stock, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-234-04997-0 .

Fictional biographies

• Fleur de pavé. Novel sur un thème d ' Aristide Bruant . Fayard, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-213-59597-6 .
• Casanova . Dernier amour . LGF, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-253-15376-1 .
• La presque pure . Édition de Fallois, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-87706-465-4 ( Mme Du Barry )

Novels

• L'irrévolution . Gallimard, Paris 1971.
  • German translation: Irrevolution . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1974.
• La dentellière . Gallimard, Paris 1974.
  • German translation: The lace maker ( Kompass-Bücherei ; Vol. 296). New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1982.
• Comme Barabbas . Gallimard, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-231-00125-X (EA Paris 1967).
• Si on partait ... Gallimard, Paris 1978.
  • German translation: If you went away ... Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1980.
• L'eau du miroir . Mercure de France, Paris 1979.
• Terre des ombres . Gallimard, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-07-021064-2 .
• Jeanne du bon plaisir, ou Les hasards de la fidélité . Denoël, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-207-22997-2 .
  • German translation: Love's bittersweet plagues . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1985, ISBN 3-499-15662-8 .
• Tendre's cousines . Gallimard, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-07-037472-6 .
  • German translation: Tender cousins . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1981, ISBN 3-499-14743-2 .
• La moitié du bonheur . Fayard, Paris 1988/94

1. Les petites égarées . 1988, ISBN 2-213-59194-6 .
2. La semaine anglaise . 1994, ISBN 2-213-59195-4 .

• Elena . Pré aux Clercs, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-7144-2371-X .
  • German translation: Elena . Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12538-3 .
• Dîner d'adieu . Laffont, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-221-06656-1 .
  • German translation: The farewell dinner. Romance novel . Structure of the Taschenbuchverlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-7466-1002-8 .
• Dialogues du désir . Laffont, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-221-06655-3 .
• Collision fatal . Stock, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-234-04370-0 .
• L'incertaine . LGF, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-253-09789-6 .
• Comme une image . Stock, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-234-04728-5 .
• Anaïs nue . Lattès, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7096-1973-3 .
• À croquer . Fayard, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-213-60761-3 .
• Derniers jours avant fermeture . Fayard, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-213-60978-0 .
• The mystère de la Tour Eiffel . Michel, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-226-16915-6 .

Plays

• Capitaine Bringuier . Édition Avant-Scène, Paris 1998.
• Theater. 1993-1999 . Fayard, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-213-59286-1 .

Film adaptations

• Claude Goretta (director): The lace maker . 1977 (based on the novel La dentellière ).
• David Hamilton (Director): Affectionate Cousins . 1980 (based on the novel Tendres Cousines ).
• Simon Brook (Director): The Tower of Monsieur Eiffel . 2005 (based on the novel Le mystère de la Tour Eiffel ).

literature

• Jérôme Garcin (Ed.): Si j'ose dire. Entretiens avec Jérôme Garcin . Mercure de France, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-7152-0026-9 .
• Bernard Guyénot: Pascal Lainé, “La dentellière” (materials and didactic analyzes for understanding French literature). Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-425-04881-3 .
• Jean-Toussaint Desanti: Le philosophe et les pouvoirs, Et autres dialogues. Entretien avec Blandine Kriegel and Pascal Lainé . Hachette Littérature, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-01-279401-6 .
• Ghislaine Pignet: “La dentellière”, Pascal Lainé (Parcours de lecture; vol. 46). Bertrand-Lacoste, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-7352-0646-7 .

Web links

• Pascal Lainé in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Contents: "Plutôt deux fois qu'une", "Trois petits meurtres et puis s'en", "Monsieur vous oubliez votre cadavre" and "L'assassin est une légende".