André Pieyre de Mandiargues (Paris, March 14th 1909 - Paris, December 13rd 1991) is a writer French.

Its abundant work includes/understands poems, tales and novels, tests, plays, as well as translations.

Biography

Born in a family from tradition calvinist, Languedoc IEN and Cevennes by his/her father, Norman by his mother, it undertakes studies of letters before being impassioned for the Archéologie and in particular for Etruscan civilization. He visits the Europe and the Mediterranean basin before the war. He takes refuge with Monaco in 1943 when he publishes its first collection. Returned with Paris in 1945, it will make knowledge into 1947 of Bona Tibertelli de Pisis (1926-2000), Artist-painter, niece of the painter ferrarais Filippo de Pisis, which it will marry in 1950.

André Pieyre de Mandiargues obtained the Prix Goncourt for his novel the margin in 1967, novel which was adapted to the Cinéma in 1976 (under the same title, to see: the Margin ).

One of its news was also adapted like “sketch” (with Fabrice Luchini) in erotic film immoral Contes of Walerian Borowczyk in 1974.

It received in 1979 the Grand Prix of poetry of the French Academy.

Near to NRF, André Pieyre de Mandiargues left an important correspondence with Jean Paulhan and many others of writers. Its files - and those of its Bona wife - are deposited with IMEC, Institut report of the contemporary edition, with Saint-Germain-the-White-Grass, in the Abbey of the Ardennes, close to Caen.

Large erotomaniac, it prefaced works of Pierre Louÿs into 10/18 and had an impressive collection of objects, toys and photographs pornographic old.

It rests with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise in Paris.

Work

Poems

  • Hedera (Monaco, Homage, 1945)
  • monumental Incongruities (Robert Laffont, 1948)
  • Astyanax (Drawings of Bona, the Waste ground, 1956)
  • Cartolines and dedications (the Waste ground, 1960)
  • the chalk Age (Gallimard, first book of poetry, 1961)
  • Astyanax preceded by monumental Incongruities and followed Cartolines and dedications , third book of poetry, 1964)
  • the Point where I am followed by Dalila exaltée and of the Night the love (Gallimard, fourth book of poetry, 1964)
  • Tears of Generals (Lithographies of Enrico Baj, Stockholm, H. Igell, 1965)
  • Critiquettes (etching of Bona. Fata Morgana, 1967)
  • Brook of lonelinesses , followed Hyacinths and of Chapeaugaga (Gallimard, 1968)
  • black Cruiser (etchings of Wifredo Lam. Paris, O. Lazar-Vernet, 1972)
  • the Drunk Eye , followed black Cruiser and of Passage of the Egyptian woman (Gallimard, sixth book of poetry, 1979)
  • Gray of pearl , followed chalk Doors, Cuevas blues , Seven fantastic gardens and of town Variations (Gallimard, last book of poetry, 1990)

Tales and novels

  • In the sordid years (Monaco, 1943; Gallimard, 1948)
  • the black Museum (Robert Laffont, 1946)
  • Sun of the wolves (Robert Laffont, 1951)
  • Marbre (Robert Laffont, 1953)
  • the English describes in the castle closed (under the pseudonym of Pierre Morion. Seals, Oxford and Cambridge, 1953)
  • the Lily of sea (Robert Laffont, 1956)
  • Charcoal fire (Grasset, 1959)
  • the Motor cycle (Gallimard, 1963)
  • dévergondée Door (Gallimard, 1965)
  • the Margin (Gallimard, 1967. Prix Goncourt)
  • the Night of millet nine hundred and fourteen (Herne, 1971)
  • Mascarets (Gallimard, 1971)
  • Under the blade (Gallimard, 1976)
  • the Mourning of the pinks (Gallimard, 1983)
  • All will disappear (Gallimard, 1987)
  • Mr Mouton (Fata Morgana, 1995. Posthumous)

Theater

  • Isabella Morra (Gallimard, 1973)
  • the secular Night (Gallimard, 1979)
  • Arsene and Cléopâtre (Gallimard, 1981)

Tests

  • Masks of Léonor Finished (Photographs of Andre Ostier, the Parade, 1951)
  • Monsters of Bomarzo (Photographs of Glasberg, Grasset, 1957)
  • the lunar Dial (Robert Laffont, 1958)
  • the View-point (Robert Laffont, 1958)
  • Sugaï (G. Fall, 1960)
  • Second View-point (Grasset, 1962)
  • enlightened Bodies (Photographs of Frederic Barzilay, Mercure de France, 1965)
  • Beylamour (Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1965)
  • Third View-point (Gallimard, 1971)
  • Bona, love and painting (Skira, 1971)
  • Arcimboldo the marvellous (Robert Laffont, 1977)
  • Fourth View-point (Gallimard, 1995)
  • Ultimate View-point (Fata Morgana, 2002, posthumous)

Talks

  • Disorder of the memory (Gallimard, 1975)

  • merry Saturn (Gallimard, 1982)

Correspondence

  • Letters in Jean Paulhan, the New French Review n°554, June 2000

Critical bibliography

  • Esthetic Castant Alexandre, of the image, fictions of Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues . Publications of the Sorbonne, Paris, 2001

  • Dominique Fat-Durosini, Mandiargues and his accounts: The writing concerned . Paris, Harmattan, 2006
  • Grossman Simone, the eye of the poet. Pieyre de Mandiargues and modern-Minard painting , Paris-Caen, Letters, " Files of the letters modernes" n° 273,1999
  • Leroy Claude, the myth of busy of Baudelaire with Mandiargues . Paris, P.U.F., 1999
  • Books of France , " Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues" , n° November 9th, th and th 1966
  • Pierre Jose, the View-point Mandiargues . Paris, Biro/ArtCurial, 1990
  • Stétié Salah, Mandiargues . Paris, Seghers, 1978

Bonds

  • biography on site of the IMEC
  • short biography
  • biography
  • quotations 1
  • quotations 2
  • study on the fantastic one at Mandiargues

Others

The street Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, in the 13 {{E}} district of Paris, celebrates its memory.

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