Pierre Assouline

Pierre Assouline (in Strasbourg, April 2009)

Pierre Assouline (born April 17, 1953 in Casablanca ) is a French writer and journalist .

Life

Assouline spent his childhood in Casablanca, but his final school years in Paris, where he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly . He then studied at the University of Paris-Nanterre and at the École des langues orientales .

Writer and journalist

Assouline has published more than twenty books, including some biographies , as well as several thousand articles and articles for newspapers, magazines and radio. He has worked as a reporter and commentator for various radio stations and is now one of the most widely read literary weblogs in France.

Critical attitude towards Wikipedia

In 2007, Pierre Assouline published several articles on his blog that heavily criticize Wikipedia. In addition, under his aegis, La Révolution Wikipédia: Les encyclopédies vont-elles mourir? (German: The Wikipedia Revolution: Will the (printed) encyclopaedias die out?) , which deals with the functionality and importance of the French Wikipedia in particular. The authors are the then journalism students Pierre Gourdain , Florence O'Kelly , Béatrice Roman-Amat , Delphine Soulas and Tassilo von Droste zu Hülshoff ; Assouline provided the foreword.

Part of the investigations were deliberately executed vandalism actions by the authors in Wikipedia in order to test in this way whether and how quickly the inserted errors are corrected again.

Works (selection)

author

Biographies

• Monsieur Dassault . Balland, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-7158-0406-7 .
• Gaston Gallimard . Un demi-siècle d'édition française . New edition Balland, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-07-033680-8 .
• Une Éminence grise. Jean Jardin (1904-1976) . Balland, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-7158-0607-8 .
• The man who sold Picasso. Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and his artists ("L'Homme de l'art. D.-H. Kahnweiler, 1884-1979", 1988). Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1990, ISBN 3-7857-0579-4 .
• Albert Londres . Vie et mort d'un grand reporter (1884-1932) . Balland, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-7158-0726-0 .
• Simenon . Biography . Julliard, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-07-038879-4 (reprint of the Paris 1992 edition).
• Henri Cartier-Bresson . The eye of the century ("Cartier-Bresson. L'oeil du siècle", 1999). Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-86521-183-6 .
• Grâces lui soient rendues. Paul Durand-Ruel , le marchand des impressionnistes . Plon, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-259-19302-1 .
• Lutetia's secrets ("Lutetia", 2005). Heyne Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-40532-5 .
• Rosebud. Éclats de biographies . Gallimard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-07-073230-4 .
• Hergé . Biography . Plon, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-259-18104-X .

conversations

• Le Flâneur de la rive gauche. Entretiens . F. Bourin, Paris 1988 ISBN 2-87686-022-8 (together with Antoine Blondin )
• Singulièrement libre. Entretiens . Perrin, Paris 1990 ISBN 2-262-00717-9 (together with Raoul Girardet )
• Le dernier des Camondo . Gallimard, Paris 1997 ISBN 2-07-074554-6

prose

• Le fleuve Combelle . Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1997 ISBN 2-7021-2696-0
• The customer. Roman ("La cliente", 1998). Persona, Mannheim 1999 ISBN 3-924652-28-7
• Lingerie. Roman ("Double vie", 2000). Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2004 ISBN 3-7857-1553-6
• État limit. Novel . Gallimard, Paris 2005 ISBN 2-07-030525-2 (Collection folio; 4129)
• As a guest, in blue, white, red. France tells. Anthology. Ed. Olga Mannheimer. dtv, Munich 2017 ISBN 9783423261524 pp. 243–250 (from Les invités. 2009. German first translation)
• The portrait of the baroness ("Le portrait"). Heyne, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-453-40903-3 (translator Maja Ueberle-Pfaff).

Non-fiction

• De nos envoyés spéciaux. Les coulisses du reportage . J.-C. Simoën, Paris 1977 (with Philippe Dampenon).
• Lourdes . Histoires d'eau . A. Moreau, Paris 1980
• Les Nouveaux convertis. Inquête sur des chrétiens, des juifs et des musulmans pas comme les autres (Folio actuel; vol. 30). A. Michel, Paris 1981 ISBN 2-07-032616-0
• L'Épuration des intellectuels (1944-1945) . Complexe, Brussels 1990 ISBN 2-87027-353-3
• Germinal . l'aventure d'un film . Fayard, Paris 1993 ISBN 2-213-03152-5

editor

• Desiree Dolron . Exaltation, gaze, xteriors . X. Barral, Institut néerlandais, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-915173-15-X (together with Mark Haworth-Booth)
• Gaston Leroux . The Rouletabille è Chéri-Bibi . BNF, Paris 2008 ISBN 978-2-7177-2421-9

Web links

Wikiquote: Pierre Assouline  - Quotes (French)

• Frank Fischer: "The Online Reich Ranicki". If you love books, you cannot avoid Pierre Assouline in France. His literary blog La République des livres reaches the masses. In: Friday , June 10, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ lemonde.fr: 15 blogueurs leaders d'opinion sur la toile
2. ↑ For example L'affaire Wikipedia ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. or De l'irresponsabilité de Wikipedia ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ See the English article La Révolution Wikipédia , which is more detailed than the French ( La Révolution Wikipédia ).
4. ↑ Ueberle-Pfaff in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019
5. ^ Catalog of the exhibition of the same name, November 9 to December 20, 2006
6. ^ Catalog of the exhibition of the same name, BNF , October 7, 2008 to January 4, 2009