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See also: Robert, Blackbird
Robert Blackbird , writer French born with Tebessa (Algeria) the August 28th 1908 and deceased in its field of Malmaison with Grosrouvre, Yvelines, the March 27th 2004. He is the son of Felix Merle, captain interprets, born in Algeria and envoy in Dardanelles in 1915. Reached of a typhoid fever, it will be repatriated in Marseilles where it dies in September 1915.
Holder of a license of philosophy, aggregate of English, it devotes his thesis of doctorate of letters to Oscar Wilde and becomes professor in college with Bordeaux and Neuilly-sur-Seine. Mobilized in 1939, it finds liaison officer with the British forces with Dunkirk where it is made prisoner. It will remain in captivity until in 1943. After the war, it will become university lecturer at the university of Rennes then of Toulouse, Caen, Rouen, Algiers and finally Nanterre where it is in May 1968.
Works
Novels
Many treats obsession of the closed place and war after its captivity between 1940 and 1943. Most of the characters of its novels, and their life, are often inspired by its close relations and his personal life.-
1949 : Weekend in Zuydcoote (Price Goncourt): a French soldier tries to embark on a boat close to Dunkirk in 1940 to join England (film adaptation of Henri Verneuil in 1964).
- 1952 : Death is my trade : historical novel inspired of the Biography of Rudolf Höß, ordering Concentration camp of Auschwitz (film adaptation “ Aus einem deutschen Leben ” of Theodor Kotulla in 1977).
- 1962 : the Island (Price of Fraternity): inspired of the revolted of Bounty, a group of mutineers takes refuge on an island and tries to organize a company.
- 1967 : a gifted animal of reason : novel of science/policy-fiction on what separates the man from the animal (film adaptation under the title the Day of the dolphin (The Day off the daulphin) by Mike Nichols in 1973).
- 1970 : Behind the pane : fictionalized account of the occupation of the room of the professors the March 22nd 1968 with the university of Nanterre.
- 1972 : Malevil : a community of survivors, cut off in a castle after a nuclear explosion (film adaptation of Christian de Chalonge in 1981).
- 1974 : protected Men : sudden domination of the women after the men were struck down in great number by a type of encéphalite which even attacks their genetic function.
- 1976 : Madrapour : the adventure of a plane without crew, metaphysical metaphor on the passage to beyond.
- 1986 : the Day does not rise for us : a account-report on the life on mission on board a nuclear submarine launcher of machine (SNLE) French.
- 1987 : the Idol : in XVIe century, in Italy, a small middle-class woman become great lady unchains in her favor and against it passions.
- 1989 : the Characteristic of the Man : the challenge of a scientist who raises, in family, one chimpanzée, teaches the sign language to him to prove that it has a form of intelligence.
Series Fortune of France (historical novel)
Historical fresco extending from 1547 with 1661. The first part (the first 6 volumes) is described through the eyes of Pierre de Siorac, character fictitious, noble at the court. The second part, through those of his/her son, Pierre-Emmanuel.- 1979: In our green years
- 1980: Paris my good city
- 1982: the Prince that here are
- 1983: Violent the Love
- 1985: the Spade of the day
- 1991: Volte of the vertugadins
- 1993: the Child-King
- 1995: Pinks of the life
- 1997: the Lily and purple
- 1999: Glory and the dangers
- 2001: Plots and cabals
- 2003: the Sword and the loves (Grand Prix Jean Giono 2003)
Theater
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1950 : Volume I: Sisyphus and death, Flamineo , Sonderling
- 1957: Volume II: New Sisyphus , Justice in Miramar , the Parliament of the women (according to Aristophane)
- 1992: Volume III: Death and sharp the followed Nanterre the Madness (adaptation of Sylvie Gravagna)
- 1996: black and white Parts and irreligious people
Other works
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1955 : Oscar Wilde or “destiny” of homosexual the
- 1965: Moncada, first combat of Fidel Castro
- 1984: Oscar Wilde
- 1965: Ahmed Ben Bella
Rewards
- 1949 : Price Goncourt for Weekend in Zuydcoote .
- 1974 : Price John Wood Campbell Memorial for Malevil .
- 1962 : Price of Fraternity for the Island .
- 2003 : Grand Prix Jean Giono for the whole of its work.
External bonds
- Fortune of France
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