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Henri-François Rey

アンリーフランソワ・レイ

Henri-François Rey

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1919-07-31 (Toulouse)
Died
1987-07-22 (Paris) age 67
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Residence History
Toulouse → Paris

Career

Occupations
writer, dramatist, screenwriter
Active Years
1958-1987

Awards

Prix des Deux Magots
1959
Work: La Fête espagnole
Organization: Deux Magots
Result: winner
Prix Interallié
1962
Work: Les Pianos mécaniques
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Pianos mécaniques

1962 novel

A story of men's desires and destruction.

desiredestruction
Adaptations
  • [film] The Uninhibited / Juan Antonio Bardem (1965)

La Fête espagnole

1958 novel

Bibliography

  • La Fête espagnole (1958)
  • La comédie (1960)
  • Les Pianos mécaniques (1962)
  • Les Chevaux masqués (1965)
  • Le Rachdingue (1967)
  • Halleluyah ma vie (1970)
  • Le Barbare (1972)
  • Schizophrénie, ma soeur (1973)
  • Dali dans son labyrinthe (1974)
  • La parodie (1980)
  • Feu le palais d'hiver (1981)
  • A l'ombre de moi-même (1981)
  • Le sacre de la putain (1983)
  • La jeune fille nue (1986)
  • Le café Méliton (1987)

Adaptations

  • Les Pianos mécaniques adapted to film as The Uninhibited (1965, dir. Juan Antonio Bardem)

Legacy

A 20th-century French novelist who won two prestigious literary prizes.