Louis Guilloux

Louis Guilloux is a writer French born with Saint-Brieuc the January 15th 1899 and deceased the October 14th 1980 in the same city.

Biography

His/her father was shoe-maker and active socialist militant , as Guilloux told in the House of the People (1927).

With the college, it has as a professor of philosophy Georges Palante, of which it will be inspired to compose the character of Cripure, pathetic hero of the Black Sang (1935) which is regarded as its masterpiece. It has as a friend of adolescence the philosopher Jean Grenier.

Louis Guilloux exerts various trades (whose journalist with the Intransigent ), Marie in 1924, publishes the House of the People in 1927. He is the translator of the novel Home to Harlem of the American black author Claude McKay, published in 1932 pennies the title Black Ghetto . He translates also John Steinbeck ( Pastures of the sky , 1948), Margaret Kennedy, and with Didier Robert, part of the series of Hornblower, novels of marine of C.S. Forester.

In 1972, it signs for television the adaptation of the Thibaut of Roger Martin of Gard, and in 1973 that of two accounts of Joseph Conrad, the Line of shade and the Madness Almeyer .

It is deceased with Saint-Brieuc in 1980. It rests with the Saint-Michel cemetery. Its name was given to a place of Saint-Brieuc.

; Its political commitment In 1927, it signs the petition, published on April 15th in the review Europe, against the law on the general organization of the nation for the time of war which repeals any intellectual independence and any freedom of thought. Its name côtoie those of Alain, Lucien Descaves, Henry Poultry, Jules Romans, Severine…

He was secretary of the 1st World congress of the writers antifascists in 1935, then responsible for the International Red Secours (later Popular help), which comes to assistance of the refugees from Germany hitlérienne, then with the republican Spanish.

André Gide invites it to accompany it in its famous voyage in the USSR in (1936). He refuses to write to him also a Retour of the USSR .

the Bread of the Dreams , which he writes during the Occupation, is worth the to him Prix of the populist novel 1942.

; Its friendships Louis Guilloux was the friend many writers, particularly of Albert Camus, André Malraux, Jean Guéhenno, Jean Grenier…

Price

It received:
  • the Price Renaudot in 1949 for Puzzle ,
  • the National Grand Prix of the Letters (1967) for the whole of its work,
  • the Grand Prix of literature of the French Academy,
  • the Large Gold Eagle of the town of Nice
  • the Brittany price.

Works

  • Companions , 1931
  • Memories on Georges Palante , 1931
  • Hyménée , 1932
  • the Reader written , compilation of mails of readers of the newspaper the Intransigent , 1933
  • Angélina , 1934
  • black Blood , 1935
  • History of brigands , accounts, 1936
  • Bread of the dreams , 1942
  • Puzzle , 1949
  • Absent from Paris , 1952
  • Parpagnacco or the Conspiracy , 1954
  • the lost Battles , 1960
  • Cripure , part drawn from the black Sang , 1961
  • Confrontation , 1968
  • Brittany which I like , My Brittany, 1973
  • Salido , followed OK Joe! , 1976
  • Coconut lost , 1978
  • Notebooks 1921-1944 , 1978
  • Large Beta , 'tale, 1981
  • Notebooks 1944-1974 , 1982
  • the Grass of lapse of memory , memories, 1984
  • Labyrinth , 1999
  • Twenty years my beautiful age , 1999

Adaptations

  • black Blood of Louis Guilloux was adapted in 2007 for the television, put in scene by Peter Kassovitz and was produced by BFC production (Francoise Castro). The role of Cripure is held by Rufus. The film was made in March and April 2006 with Lille and Cambrai by the team of France 3 Lille Production.

Internal bonds

  • List of the Breton authors

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