Pierre Bost

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Pierre Bost (born September 5, 1901 in Lasalle ; died December 6, 1975 in Paris ) was a French journalist , writer and screenwriter .

Life

Pierre Bost grew up in Le Havre and lived in Paris since the end of the First World War. He worked as a journalist, published around twenty novels, volumes of short stories, plays and essays between 1924 and 1945, making him one of the most important French writers of the interwar period. He wrote in the style of the French psychological novel. In 1931 he won the Prix ​​Interallié for the novel le Scandale . In 1937 he was editor-in-chief of the women's illustrated Marie Claire .

Since 1940, even during the time of the German occupation of France , he wrote scripts together with Jean Aurenche . a. filmed by Claude Autant-Lara , Jean Delannoy and René Clément . These films were for the most part adaptations of literary works that were reworked for the film according to a “method of equivalence” developed by the two. Among her better-known works were Le Diable au corps after Raymond Radiguet , La Traversée de Paris and La jument verte , both after Marcel Aymé , but also works by Stendhal and Émile Zola .

In 1954, Bost and Aurenche were attacked by the film critic François Truffaut in the film magazine Cahiers du cinéma in the article Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français for their way of working. With his radical criticism, Truffaut paved the way for the nouvelle vague in French film of the 1960s. In contrast, Bost's post-war filmmaking was forgotten.

In 1974/76, Bost worked in two films with Bertrand Tavernier , the script for Le Juge et l'Assassin received a César in 1977 . In 1984 Tavernier filmed Bost's novel Monsieur Ladmiral va bientôt mourir under the title A Sunday in the Country ( Un dimanche à la campagne ) and had great success with it.

Bost's much younger brother Jacques-Laurent Bost (1916–1990) also became a journalist.

Scripts (selection)

Signature from a book dedication (without year)

Also as a co-author. The film selection here under the translated German title.

Fonts (selection)

  • Hercule et mademoiselle . Paris: Gallimard, 1924
    • Hercules and Mademoiselle and other short stories . Translation of Lina Frender. Berlin: Weltgeist books, 1927
  • L'imbécile . Paris: Gallimard, 1924
  • Prétextat . Paris: Gallimard, 1925
  • Voyage de l'esclave . Paris: Éditions Marcelle Lesage, 1926
  • Crise de croissance . Paris: Gallimard, 1926
  • À la porte . Paris: Au sans pareil, 1927
  • Faillite . Paris: Gallimard, 1928
    • Bankruptcy . Novel. Translation EV Munich: Drei Masken Verlag, 1930
    • Bankruptcy . Novel. Translation by Rainer Moritz: Zurich: Dörlemann, 2015
  • Anaïs . Paris: Gallimard, 1930
  • Briançon . Grenoble: Editions Dardelet, 1930
  • Mesdames et messieurs . Paris: Gallimard, 1931
  • Le Scandale . Paris: Gallimard, 1931
  • Faux numéros . Paris: Gallimard, 1932
  • Porte mishap . Paris: Éditions Le Dilettante, 1932
  • Un grand personnage . Paris: Gallimard, 1935
  • Homicide par imprudence . Paris: Gallimard, 1936
  • La haute fourche . Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1945
  • Monsieur Ladmiral va bientôt mourir . Paris: Gallimard, 1945
    • A Sunday in the Country: Roman . Translation by Rainer Moritz. Zurich: Dörlemann, 2013
  • Un an dans un tiroir . Paris: Éditions Le Dilettante, 1945
  • with Pierre Darbon; Pierre Quet: La Puissance et la Gloire . Paris: Robert Laffont, 1952
  • with Claude-André Puget : Un nommé Judas . Paris: La Table Ronde, 1956
  • with Jean Aurenche; Claude Brule; Georges Neveux: Molière pour rire et pour pleurer . Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François Truffaut: Une certaine tendance du cinéma français , in: Cahiers du cinéma, January 1954
personal data
SURNAME Bost, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist, writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Lasalle
DATE OF DEATH 6th December 1975
Place of death Paris