Prix Goncourt
1 appearances
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Edition 45 (1947) Winner
Jean-Louis Curtis
ジャン＝ルイ・クリュシス
Jean-Louis Curtis
Aliases:
Albert Laffitte
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1917-05-22 （Orthez）
- Died
- 1995-11-11 age 78
- Nationality
- フランス, French
- Languages
- French, English
- Residence History
- Orthez → Bordeaux → Paris (Sorbonne) → England → Morocco → Bayonne → Laon
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, English professor
- Active Years
- 1946-1995
- Affiliations
- La Table Ronde, Académie française
- Memberships
- Académie française
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bordeaux Faculty of Arts | — | Arts | — | — | France |
| Sorbonne | — | — | — | 1937以前 | France |
Bordeaux Faculty of Arts
Arts
Country:
France
After secondary studies
Sorbonne
Period:
1937以前
Country:
France
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | Prix Goncourt | The Forests of the Night | — | Académie Goncourt | 受賞 |
| 1972 | Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française | All works | — | Académie française | 受賞 |
Prix Goncourt
1947
Work:
The Forests of the Night
Organization:
Académie Goncourt
Result:
受賞
Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française
1972
Work:
All works
Organization:
Académie française
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Forests of the Night
1947 NovelAcid portraits of those who played at being members of the Resistance.
ResistanceBourgeois society
Bibliography
- Les Jeunes hommes (1946)
- The Forests of the Night (1947)
- Lucifer's Dream (1949)
- Haute École (1950)
- Chers corbeaux (1951)
- The Side of the Angels (1954)
- L'Échelle de soie (1956)
- Un Saint au néon (1956)
- La Parade (1960)
- Cygne sauvage (1962)
- La Quarantaine (1966)
- Le Jeune couple (1967)
- Le Thé sous les cyprès (1969)
- Un miroir le long du chemin (1969)
- Le Roseau pensant (1971)
- La Chine m'inquiète (1972)
- Questions à la littérature (1973)
- L'Étage noble (1976)
- L'Horizon dérobé (1978)
- La Moitié du chemin (1980)
- Le Battement de mon cœur (1981)
- Le Mauvais choix (1984)
- Le Temple de l'amour (1990)
- La France m'épuise (1992)
- Le monde comme il va (1995)
- Andromède (1996)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Conventional novel techniquesAnatomizing bourgeois societies
- Recurring Motifs
- Bourgeois societySatire
Legacy
One of the best 'conventional' novelists in France, known for satirizing bourgeois societies. Goncourt Prize winner and member of the Académie française.
In Popular Culture
- Homaged by Michel Houellebecq in La carte et le territoire
Quotes
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He is one of the best of the 'conventional' novelists now writing in France, but is very uneven: he is not worried about originality of technique, and prefers to concentrate on what he can do well, which is to anatomize bourgeois societies and 'artistic' communities.
Source: Martin Seymour-Smith, The New Guide to Modern World Literature (1985)
Trivia
- Real name Albert Laffitte
- Handled French subtitling for BBC Shakespeare adaptations