Prix Renaudot (Prix Théophraste-Renaudot)
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Edition 24 (1949) Winner
Louis Guilloux
ルイ・ギヨー
Rui Giyō
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1899-01-15 （Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France）
- Died
- 1980-10-14 （Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, France） age 81
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French, English
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Saint-Brieuc (throughout his life)
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, literary translator, interpreter, journalist
- Active Years
- 1927-1980
- Influenced By
- Georges Palante, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Influenced
- Albert Camus
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | Prix du roman populiste | Le Pain des Rêves | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1949 | Prix Renaudot | Le Jeu de Patience | — | — | 受賞 |
Prix du roman populiste
1942
Work:
Le Pain des Rêves
Result:
受賞
Prix Renaudot
1949
Work:
Le Jeu de Patience
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Le Sang noir
1935 Social RealismDepicts the suicidal thoughts of anti-hero Cripure amid militarism during WWI, with existentialist elements.
class strugglehuman despairpolitical idealism
Translations
- Bitter Victory (English)
Bibliography
- La Maison du Peuple (1927)
- Lettres de Proudhon (1929)
- Dossier confidentiel (1930)
- Compagnons (1931)
- Souvenirs sur Georges Palante (1931)
- Hyménée (1932)
- Le Lecteur écrit (1933)
- Angélina (1934)
- Le Sang Noir (1935)
- Histoire de brigands (1936)
- Le Pain des Rêves (1942)
- Le Jeu de Patience (1949)
- Absent de Paris (1952)
- Parpagnacco ou la Conjuration (1954)
- Les Batailles Perdues (1960)
- Cripure (1961)
- La Confrontation (1968)
- La Bretagne que j'aime (1973)
- Salido, suivi de OK Joe! (1976)
- Coco Perdu (1978)
- Carnets 1921-1944 (1978)
Translations by Author
- Home to Harlem (trans. Claude McKay, 1932 as Ghetto Noir)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Social Realismexistentialist and absurdist elementssocial novels set in Brittany
- Recurring Motifs
- working-class lifepolitical struggleshuman despair and idealism
Legacy
Known for Social Realist novels depicting working-class life and political struggles in mid-20th century. Masterpiece Le Sang noir seen as prefiguring Sartre's La Nausée. Prix Louis Guilloux named after him established posthumously.
In Popular Culture
- Buried in Cimetière Saint-Michel, Saint-Brieuc.
Trivia
- Father was a socialist activist shoemaker.
- Befriended philosophy tutor Georges Palante in high school, whose despair inspired Le Sang noir.
- Fluent in English, served as interpreter for US occupation army.
- Friends with Albert Camus, André Malraux, and others.