Philippe Djian

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Philippe Djian at the presentation of his book Doggy Bag in 2009

Philippe Djian (born June 3, 1949 in Paris ) is a French writer .

Life

Djian's Armenian father worked as a window dresser , his mother was a housewife. He has two brothers. Djian grew up in Paris, where he attended school from 1955 to 1968, including the Lycée Turgot . As a teenager, Djian had a vacation job at what is now Gallimard . The following year Djian studied literature at the University of Paris VIII in Vincennes and attended a school for journalism , but dropped out of both after a few months. He then worked for two months in Le Havre in the hope of being able to join a ship to South America . However, since he did not succeed in doing this, he bought a plane ticket to New York instead with his earnings . Djian worked there for six months for the Librairie française in the Rockefeller Center and then traveled to South America, namely to Colombia . There he worked as a journalist for the French press, but without success. He then gave up journalism and returned to France.

Here Djian first worked as an editor for the Détective publishing house , then as a bookseller , followed by a number of odd jobs. In 1973 Djian met Anne-Marie Angevin, a French painter who uses the stage name Année . After the birth of the first son the following year, Djian began literary writing. In 1978 he finished his first book with short stories under the French title 50 contre 1 , which was not published until 1981 after it had been rejected by several publishers with partly derogatory comments. Djian celebrated his breakthrough as a writer with the book Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning in 1985, which made him known worldwide and was also successfully made into a film. Since 1989 he has also been writing chanson texts for the Swiss singer Stephan Eicher on a regular basis . From the early 2000s, he translated several English-language plays into French. In 2008 he published his only own play Lui , which was published in 2010 in the form of a comic strip drawn by Jean-Philippe Peyraud. In 2012 he was awarded for the novel Oh ... the Prix Interallié .

Djian's life is characterized by numerous changes of residence. According to his own statements, he never lived in the same place for more than five years. He has three children with Année, whom he married in 1993. The eldest is the son Loïc, to whom the father dedicated the book Backbone . He dedicated the novel Pas de deux to his daughter Clara and the novel Matador to his daughter Lou-Anne .

style

Djian's literary role models are Richard Brautigan , Henry Miller , Jack Kerouac and Jerome David Salinger . He consciously places himself in the tradition of modern American literature and has said in this context: "I am only interested in style and language because I have no message that I want to pass on." When he began to read, the contemporary French authors are weren't particularly interesting because they didn't deal with real life, as many American writers did at the time. Djian's style is characterized by a sophisticated purism and the speed with which he opposed the established literary salon. He likes to use colloquial words and maintains a fluid, varied sentence structure. In several of his novels, the first-person narrator is a writer who works hard on his writing style: "Don't ask yourself why you are writing and for whom, but instead write as if every sentence could be your last."

Works

original Art year German edition translation year
50 against 1 stories 1981 100 to 1 Michael Mosblech 2008
Bleu comme l'enfer novel 1982 Blue as hell Michael Mosblech 1990
Zone érogène novel 1984 Erogenous zone Michael Mosblech 1987
37.2 ° le matin novel 1985 Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning Michael Mosblech 1986
Maudit manège novel 1986 Betrayed and sold Michael Mosblech 1988
Echine novel 1988 backbone Michael Mosblech 1991
Crocodiles stories 1989 Crocodiles Michael Mosblech 1993
Lent dehors novel 1991 pas de deux Michael Mosblech 1994
Lorsque Lou narrative 1992
Bram van Velde narrative 1993
Sotos novel 1993 Matador Ulrich Hartmann 1993
Assassins novel 1994 I worked for a murderer Ulrich Hartmann 1996
Aspirins Novella 1996
Mauvais rebonds Novella 1996
Criminels novel 1996 criminal Ulrich Hartmann 1998
pornography items 1998
Il dit que c'est difficile Story (new edition by Bram van Velde ) 1998
Sainte-Bob novel 1998 Hot autumn Ulrich Hartmann 1999
Vers chez les blancs novel 2000 Black days, white nights Uli Wittmann 2002
Ardoise Essays 2002 In the chalk Uli Wittmann 2004
Ça c'est un baiser novel 2002 Sirens Uli Wittmann 2003
Frictions Novella 2003 Frictions Uli Wittmann 2005
Impuretés novel 2005 The early ripening Uli Wittmann 2006
Doggy bag: Season 1–6 novel 2005-2008 Doggy Bag 1–6 Uli Wittmann 2009
Mise en bouche Comic 2008
Impardonnables novel 2009 The frivolous Uli Wittmann 2011
Lui Comic 2010
Incidences novel 2010 The restless Oliver Ilan Schulz 2012
Vengeances novel 2011 Like the wild animals Oliver Ilan Schulz 2013
"Oh…" novel 2012 Oh… Oliver Ilan Schulz 2014
Love song novel 2013
Chéri-Chéri novel 2014
Dispersez-vous, ralliez-vous! novel 2016
Marlène novel 2017 Marlène Norma Cassau 2018
A l'aube novel 2018 Dawn Norma Cassau 2020
Les inéquitables novel 2019

All German translations have been published by Diogenes Verlag .

Awards

Film adaptations

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script
  • 2004: Let it be (Ne fais pas ça) - Director: Luc Bondy

literature

  • Christiane Baumann & Gisela Lerch Eds .: Jean-Luc Benoziglio , Philippe Djian, Jean Echenoz , François Bon , Leslie Kaplan , Valère Novarina, Marie Ndiaye . in: Extreme Present. French literature of the 1980s. Contributions on the occasion of Berlin, European Capital of Culture 1988. Manholt, Bremen 1989 ISBN 3-924903-70-0 Each with own and third-party contributions (eg excerpts of works, interviews) of the named; Publisher's edition of the conference proceedings. Djian pp. 153-174
  • Corinna Libal: The portrayal of the person in Philippe Djian's novels: from “Bleu comme l'enfer” (1982) to “Lent dehors” (1991) . In: Literary Studies in the Blue Owl . No. 26 . Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1999, ISBN 3-89206-961-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait - Philippe DJIAN - Sans compter (March 17, 2017). Retrieved December 2, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ "The Cult of Philippe Djian, ABC Arts online, interview September 19, 2001"
personal data
SURNAME Djian, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris