One century of writers

One century of writers is a collection of 257 documentary on writer S of the twentieth century, directed and presented by Bernard Rapp in collaboration with Florence Mauro, diffused on television Wednesdays of second part of evening on France 3 of the January 4th 1995 with the February 8th 2001. At the beginning, 260 “episodes” were envisaged. The last emission was devoted to Antoine Chuquet: an imaginary writer.

History

Jean-Pierre Cottet, at the time director of antenna and of the programs of France 3, on the initiative of the series in spring 1994. Their production is entrusted to independent production companies and often famous documentarists. The format of each one of them is that of documentary unit 52 minutes.

List episodes

This nonexhaustive list follows the alphabetical order of the writers who were the subject of documentary in this collection.

Guillaume Apollinaire of Jean-Claude Bringuier (1998)
Antonin Artaud of Andre S. Labarthe (2000)
Audiberti, of the tons of seeds of Philippe Condroyer (1998)
Marcel Aymé of Sylvain Roumette (1996)
Maurice Bars of Jean-Claude Lamy and Claude Vajda (1995)
Herve Bazin of Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe and Pierre Moustiers (1996)
Georges Bernanos of Patrick Zeyen (1994)
Borges, itman mirror of Alberto Manguel and Philippe Molins (1999)
Henri Bosco of Jean-François Jung (2000)
Mikhaïl Afanassievitch Boulgakov of Iossif Pasternak (1997)
Constantin Cafavis of Elgal Erera (1998)
Roger Caillois of Nicolas Stern and Dominique Rabourdin (1999)
Alejo Carpentier: Here and over there of Emilio Pacull (1997)
Blaise Cendrars of Claude-Pierre Cahvanon
Andree Chédid of Antoine Léonard and Vicky Summit (1998)
Cioran of Bernard the Jordan and Patrice Bollon (1999)
Bernard Clavel of Claude Vajda (1999)
Albert Cohen of Glenio To cram and William Karel (1995)
Arthur Conan Doyle of Marie-Dominique Montel (1997)
Julio Cortázar of Chantal Rémy (1997)
James Ellroy of Benoit Cohen and François Guérif (1999)
William Faulkner of Marc Jampolsky and Michel Abescat (1995)
Carlos Fuentes of Valeria Sarmiento and Guy Scarpetta (1998)
Anatole France of François Chaye and Olivier Deck-beam
Romain Gary of Olivier Thousand and Andre Asséo (1999)
Michel de Ghelderode, the Archangel of Patrick Zeyen (1999)
Edouard Glissant of Patrick Chamoiseau, Claude Chonville and Guy Deslauriers (1996)
Julien Gracq of Michel Mitrani (1995)
Graham Greene of Purple Bernard-Jacques (1995)
Louis Guilloux of Josiane Maisse (1996)
Sacha Guitry of Marcel Jullian and Philippe Piazza
James Joyce of Antoine Gallien (1995)
Chester Himes in black and white of Michel Lebrun and Godwin Djadja (1995)
Bohumil Hrabal of Patrick Cazals (1995)
Last days of Aldous Huxley of Beatrice Limare (1999)
Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994) of Philippe Truffault (2000)
Pierre Jean Jouve of Olivier Thousand and Robert Kopp
Ernst Jünger of Gero von Boehm (1996)
Kafka of Karel Procop (1995)
Kipling or the syndrome of Lahore (1865 - 1936) of Francis Guillery (1999)
Giuseppe Tomaso di Lampedusa of Dominique Large and Jean-Claude Navarro (1997)
London Jack, rebellious child of the Californian dream of Michel Viotte (1995)
Any mysterious walk towards a destiny, the case Lovecraft of Pierre Trividic, Patrick Mario Bernard and Anne-Louise Trividic (1998)
Curzio Malaparte of Jean-Paul Fargier (1998)
Alberto Moravia, the man who looks at Nico Di Biase (1998)
Henry Miller of Robert Mugnerot
Patrick Modiano of Paule Zajdermann and Antoine de Gaudemar
Pablo Neruda of Amalia Escriva (1998)
Jean Paulhan, the gift of ubiquity of Jerome Prior (1998)
Cesare Pavese of Alain Bargala (1995)
Charles Péguy of Jean-Paul Fargier (1995)
Georges Perros of Jerome Garcin and Paul Andre Picton (1999)
Marcel Proust of Pierre Dumayet (1995)
Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, the amateur of imprudence of Evelyne Clavaud (2000)
Two lives of the cat Radiguet of Jean-Christophe Averty and Pierre Trividic (2000)
Alain Robbe Grillet of Frederic Compain (1999)
Francoise Sagan of Mona Makki and Dominique Roller (1996)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry of Jacques Tréfouël (1996)
Nathalie Sarraute of Jacques Doillon (1995)
Leonardo Sciascia, a truth born in Sicily of Francoise Gallo (1995)
David Shahar of Elgal Erera (1999)
Alexandre Soljenitsyne of Francoise Wolf and Michel Parfenoff (1999)
Philippe Soupault of Antoine Gallien (2000)
incomplete Portrait of Gertrude Stein of Arnaud of Landing the (1999)
John Steinbeck or the spirit of the places of Alain Gallet and Michel Breaking (1995)
Andre Suares, the insurrectionist of Francoise Gallo and Robert Parienté (1998)
Rabindranath Tagore of Sylvain Roumette (1995)
Paul Valery of Pierre Dumayet and To wrap Bober (1997)
Lu Xun of Henry Lange (1999)

See too

Press

Bernard Rapp gives to reading (Serge Bolloch, Le Monde , January 1995)
Collection of Feathers (Valerie Cadet, Le Monde , November 17th, 1996)
a audio-visual odyssey in all letters (Valerie Cadet, Le Monde , February 4th, 2001)

External bonds

Site of the emission (via Internet Files)
Article on the site of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
nonexhaustive Liste of the episodes

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