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Bernard Frank

ベルナール・フランク

Berunāru Furanku

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1929-10-11 (Neuilly-sur-Seine)
Died
2006-11-03 (Paris) age 77
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Residence History
Neuilly-sur-Seine → Paris

Career

Occupations
journalist, writer
Active Years
1952-2006
Affiliations
Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur
Influenced By
Jean-Paul Sartre
Influenced
Roger Nimier, Antoine Blondin

Education

Lycée Pasteur
Khâgne
Country: France
Expelled for bad conduct

Awards

Prix des Deux Magots
1971
Work: Un Siècle débordé
Result: 受賞
Roger Nimier Prize
1981
Work: Solde
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Rats

1953 novel

Un Siècle débordé

1970 novel

Solde

1980 novel

Bibliography

  • Grognards et hussards (1952)
  • Géographie universelle (1953)
  • Les Rats (1953)
  • Israël (1955)
  • L'Illusion comique (1955)
  • Le Dernier des Mohicans (1956)
  • La Panoplie littéraire (1958)
  • Un Siècle débordé (1970)
  • Solde (1980)
  • Portraits et Aphorismes (2001)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
satirical
Recurring Motifs
literary criticismpolitics

Health

  • heart attack
    2006
    death

Legacy

French journalist and writer known for coining the term 'Hussards' for a literary movement

Trivia

  • Coined the term 'Hussards' for the literary movement