Patrick Deville
Patrick Deville (born December 14, 1957 in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins ) is a French writer.
Life
Deville studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Nantes , where he initially worked as a lecturer. Deville lived in the Middle East, Nigeria, and Algeria in the 1980s. In the 1990s he visited Cuba, Uruguay, Central American states and states of the former Eastern Bloc. These trips are a starting point for his literary production. Deville founded and runs the “Maison des écrivains étrangers et des traducteurs” in Saint-Nazaire and its magazine “Meet”.
His novel Kampuchea was selected as the best novel of the year by Lire magazine in 2011 .
In 2012, the novel Peste et Choléra about the life of Alexandre Yersin received the Fnac Prize and the Prix Femina .
Works (selection)
- Cordon bleu . Minuit, Paris 1987 ISBN 2-7073-1120-0
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Longue vue . Minuit, Paris 1988 ISBN 2-7073-1177-4
- The perspective . Translated by Jürgen Ritte . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1989 ISBN 3-498-01281-9
- Le feu d'artifice . Minuit, Paris 1992 ISBN 2-7073-1420-X
- La femme parfaite. Minuit, Paris 1995 ISBN 2-7073-1507-9
- Absolutely homer . In: Walter Grond : Absolutely Homer. Novel . Droschl, Graz 1995, pp. 205-218
- Ces deux-là . Editions de Minuit, Paris 2000 ISBN 2-7073-1729-2
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Pura vida. Vie & mort de William Walker . Seuil, Paris 2004 ISBN 2-02-062877-5 .
- Pura vida. Life and Death of William Walker . Translated by Holger Fock. Haymon, Innsbruck 2007 ISBN 978-3-85218-475-3
- La tentation of the arm à feu. Seuil, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-02-079830-1
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Equatoria . Seuil, Paris 2009 ISBN 978-2-02-090680-7
- Equatoria . Novel. Translated by Holger Fock, Sabine Müller. Bilger, Zurich 2013 ISBN 978-3-03762-028-1
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Kampuchéa . Seuil, Paris 2011 ISBN 978-2-02-099207-7
- Kampuchea . Novel. Translated by Holger Fock, Sabine Müller. Bilger, Zurich 2015 ISBN 978-3-03762-050-2
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Peste et Choléra. Seuil, Paris 2012 ISBN 978-2-02-107720-9
- Plague & Cholera . Translated by Holger Fock, Sabine Müller. Unionsverlag, Zurich 2013 ISBN 978-3-03762-037-3
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Viva . Seuil, Paris 2014 ISBN 978-2-02-113596-1
- Viva . Translated by Holger Fock, Sabine Müller. Bilger, Zurich 2017 ISBN 978-3-03762-062-5
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Taba-Taba , Seuil, 2017 ISBN 978-2-02-124746-6
- Taba-taba . Translated by Holger Fock, Sabine Müller. Bilger, Zurich 2019 ISBN 978-3-03762-077-9
Literature (selection)
- Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf: photography and novel. Analysis, form, function. Intermediality in the field of tension between nouveau roman and postmodern aesthetics in the work of Patrick Deville. Transcript, Bielefeld 2011
- Oliver Eberlen: Roman impassible. The subversive and undogmatic handling of narration, language, reality and time in the novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Patrick Devilles . Kovac, Hamburg 2002
- Dorothea Schmidt-Supprian: Scope for inauthentic storytelling in the postmodern French novel: Investigations into the work of Jean Echenoz , Patrick Deville and Daniel Pennac . Tectum, Marburg 2003 ISBN 3-8288-8528-4 Zugl. Heidelberg, Univ., Diss. 2001
- Ingeborg Waldinger: The father of slaves , review, in: NZZ , August 3, 2013, p. 23
- Marina Ortrud Hertrampf, Isabelle Bernard Rabadi, ed .: Création (s) et réception (s) de Patrick Deville . Academic Publishing Association, Munich 2019 ISBN 978-3-95477-100-4 full text
- Isabelle Bernard Rabadi: cameras, binoculars, magnifying glasses and telescopes. Productive interaction of optical instruments with the contemporary novel. Study of Patrick Deville's "Longue vue" - Appareils photos, jumelles, loupes et longues-vues: Des instruments d'optique en interaction féconde avec le romanesque contemporain. Étude de "Longue vue" (1988) by Patrick Deville, in Raluca Hergheligiu Ed .: Études à la loupe. Optical instruments and literature. Parthenon, Mehlingen 2018 ISBN 3942994186 pp. 189 - 201 (bilingual German-French)
Web links
- Literature by and about Patrick Deville in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Patrick Deville in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Patrick Deville at perlentaucher.de
- Patrick Deville , at auteurs.contemporain
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf: Photography and Novel, Analysis, Form, Function. Intermediality in the field of tension between nouveau roman and postmodern aesthetics in the work of Patrick Deville . Transcript, Bielefeld 2011 ISBN 978-3-8376-1718-4 Zugl .: Regensburg, Univ., Diss., 2009. P. 52ff
- ↑ Patrick Deville ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nicolas Ungemuth: Patrick Deville: le monde lui appartient , Le Figaro , September 7, 2012
- ^ Patrick Deville, couronné par le Femina pour "Peste & Choléra" , Le Monde , November 5, 2012
- ^ Fock in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deville, Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Brevin-les-Pins |