Philippe Djian

Philippe Djian is a Romancier French born the June 3rd 1949 with Paris. He is regarded by certain as the French heir to the Beat generation. He is in particular the author of 37°2 the morning , adapted to the cinema by Jean-Jacques Beineix.

Biography

During a peaceful childhood in a family of the lower middle class of the 10th Parisian district, and whereas it is bored firm at the school, a classmate pushes it with the writing, initially in the form of notebooks. It is graduate University of journalism of Paris. Enthusiast besides, it leaves very quickly to South America for the realization a spontaneous report which it will succeed in later selling with the weekly magazine Humanity - Sunday. Its first readings forge to him a certain idea of the importance of the style: Died with Credit of Celine, Light of August of Faulkner, the Catch-Hearts of Salinger… its preference goes very quickly towards the American literature.

Connecting the odd jobs (it will be Docker to treat to an one-way ticket towards America, storekeeper at Gallimard, salesman, to interview of Lucette Destouches, the widow of Celine, for the literary Magazine, it will repair an old masonry in the Corbières…), it is the night, in small a guérite of highway, which it writes its first collection of news, 50 against 1 . Success is not immediate, but the novels which follow bring a new breath, in phase with its time, and where the urgency of the life makes forget the gentrification of the French literature. One speaks about cigarettes, love, cooked melancholic persons, pans in the sink, in short, of a daily newspaper which dictates universal emotions. It is the adaptation to the cinema of 37°2 the morning which will bring popularity to him that one knows to him today.

Antoine de Caunes presents later Stephan Eicher to him, with which Djian ties a deep friendship. It is besides since its lyric writer, at least for his French songs.

Fleeing monotony, he often moves - of Boston to Florence - and is installed today with Paris, from where he writes a novel on average every 18 months. Doggy Bag is its more recent project, of which the first opus Saison 1 left in bookstore in October 2005 and starts a " series littéraire" in 6 seasons (6 books), inspired by the American televised series like Six Feet Under, whose Philippe Djian is literally accro.

In addition to 37°2 the morning , Djian was adapted to the cinema with Bleu like the hell of Yves Boisset (1986). It also has Co-writing the Scénario of do not do that Luc Bondy (2004).

Quotations

That shown of the good from time to time that one is not all alone on the way, that widens the road during a small moment, it is nevertheless better than anything.

To set goals in the life, it is to twist itself in chains|Philippe Djian|37°2 the morning

Works

Novels

Blue like the hell , Bernard Barrault, 1983 (adapted to the cinema in 1986)
Erotogenic zone , Bernard Barrault, 1984
37°2 the morning , Bernard Barrault, 1985 (adapted to the cinema in 1986)
Curses horse-gear , Bernard Barrault, 1986
Échine , Bernard Barrault, 1988
Lent outside , Bernard Barrault, 1991
Sotos , Gallimard, 1993
Assassins , Gallimard, 1994
Criminels , Gallimard, 1997
Sainte Bob , Gallimard, 1998
Towards at the white , Gallimard, 2000
Slate , Julliard, 2002
That, it is a kiss , Gallimard, 2002
Frictions , Gallimard, 2003
Impuretés , Gallimard, 2005
Doggy Bag

season 1, Julliard, October 2005
season 2, Julliard, March 2006
season 3, Julliard, October 2006
season 4, Julliard, April 2007

News

50 against 1 , Bernard Barrault, 1981
Crocodiles , Bernard Barrault, 1989
When Lou , Gallimard/Futuropolis, 1992
Tales of Christmas , Méréal, 1996

Translations

Tender and cruel of Martin Crimp.
the Guard of Harold Pinter.

External bonds

Critical and analyzes " Blue like the enfer" of Critical Philippe Djian
and " analyzes; Zone érogène" of Critical Philippe Djian
and " analyzes; 37°2 the matin" of Philippe Djian
a site devoted to Philippe Djian
a doggyblog devoted to Doggy Bag of Philippe Djian

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