Pierre Bourgeade is a man of letters French at the same time Romancier, Dramaturge, Poète, Scénariste, Journaliste, critical arts person and Photographe. Descendant of Jean Root, he is also the brother-in-law of the écrivaine Paule Constant. Between history and fiction, erotism and crowned, the work of Pierre Bourgeade offers to the reader curious the charms about the hesitation. Reporting his memories of childhood and youth ( the pink Rose ), the author was led, to be sincere, to partly write his book with third person plural.

Biography

A childhood marked by the war of Spain

Pierre Bourgeade is born on November 7th, 1927 with Morlanne (small village located in the Yrénées-Atlantiques). His/her father, Eugene Bourgeade, tax collector of the taxes, go down from Bourgeade tinman and hawker in the Cantal; his/her mother, Henriette Navarron, are downward of Jean Racine The author ensures that it was thorough with the literature by the blows of gun which it heard, child, in the years 1936, on the other side of the mountain. The Spaniards, as fervent supporters of Christ or the Sickle, étripaient themselves. The steady schoolboy bought a book on which it paid, day after day, charts and photographs with the support, the detail meticulous person of these massacres. Peasants killed like deadwood, unearthed nuns then shot. These facts, thought the child, sowed his spirit by worst. Naivety! Less than four years after, the close tragedy became ours, incomparably more obscene and bloody, which the humble schoolboy (image, one sees it, of whole humanity) had been in sorrow to envisage well.

The Christian college (Saint-Louis-of-Gonzague with Bayonne), where the child pains on the Latin and Greek authors, is occupied by the Germans. Soldiers and schoolboys eat neck and neck with the refectory. Powerful odor men, odor of death. The father, modest civil servant, is anonymous link of a long succession of frontier runners, making escape towards Spain. The child each night trembles. One spoke about “camps”. The unnamable one, the horror are the daily bread of the daydream.

At the feverish days of the Release, one finds the author lengthened on a prostitute, distressed, not knowing if the man in love must insert his two legs between the largely open legs of the woman (the manner which one says, in traditional prosody, that masculine rhymes and feminine rhymes are embraced), or if it must intermingle his legs with the woman (with the manner which one says that these rhymes are alternate). This young man is really “an arts person”!

Literary beginnings

Its first manuscript, Immortal the , where it is much question of women, spends ten years to find an editor. Refused everywhere, it falls between the hands from Georges Lambrichs, director of the Chemin , which decides the publication at once of it. Days of joy, for the author, “second birth” which a crisis accompanies by dysentery. Maurice Nadeau, giving an account of the book in the literary Fortnight , locates of it the author, of which he is unaware of all, in the mobility of Breton and of Bataille, stars died, it is need to specify it, without to have left filiation. But Nadeau has a presentiment of that work to come will feed with terrors from the history and the sex (from where the reference to Bataille), last with the rolling mill of the writing (from where the reference to Breton). The author will keep a long time on him this article which draws the future ideally.

In the years 1965-1970, however, such a project is announced badly. The Parisian scene is very whole occupied futile debate between holding of the novel traditional and holding of the Nouveau Novel, that the author recently appeared returns back to back in a rather sharp article which publishes, in its number 100, the literary Fortnight . The debate does not take place, the Establishment taking refuge in the anathema. Declared by the ones “red Mallarmé”, Bourgeade is for different “fascist in his imaginary procedure”, mysterious judgment which in known as length on theologists taken of short. He goes back from there wisely in the future. Twenty years after, the facts gave him reason. As of the years 1965-1970, many writers engulfed themselves in the vacuum left by the theory. Each one with its manner discovered the axes of a “literature of the 3rd type” who marks out the end of this century. The thesis in vogue wanted to know only the glance, the present, the “writing white”. However each one reinvents for its account historicity, the Eros, the writing very short, as well asceticism as madness.

Work

Sets of themes of the work of Pierre Bourgeade

The work of Bourgeade is located in this vast movement. The author remains faithful to the account of excesses that the history, concerned to save any repetition to him, takes care regularly to renew. The sex and its demon, loneliness, hold their right place in this world in decomposition which the author endeavors to describe in his narrower reality, hidden door of the fantastic one. Would the writing be safety? Treason itself, compared with the action, it closes again a circle so vicious that one is tempted to laugh at it, in spite of oneself. What would be the horror, without the irony?

To laugh put aside, the heart of these texts is the compassion. Mercenary by honesty ( the Cupboard ), of torture by fidelity ( the Snakes ), torturer by purity ( the Camp ), damnant himself by charity ( Sade Holy Therese ), the hero bourgeadien seems a monster of innocence. Except for the reflection, one would like it.

The theater of Pierre Bourgeade

With the theater, the adventure of Bourgeade is identical. It arrives at the moment when the wise ones announce, after the success of the “theater of the absurd”, the impossibility of the theatrical act. Who awaited Godot does not await more anything. Obvious reason of a resurrection which did not have of equal, in these twenty years, which the literary explosion! The author in taken his share, carrying to the scene topics and forms which he had worked in the novel. Orden (created in XXVe Festival of Avignon with Lavelli and Arrigo) introduced the musical theater, new misadventure of the opera. Deutsches Requiem (with Daniel Benoin) tried a revival of the political theater. Palazzo Mentale (with Georges Lavaudant) introduced the theater of the phantasm, celebrating in seven languages frays - French, German, Italian, Spanish, English, Czech, Yiddish - agitated in empty cranium of the Borges, Dantes or the Kafka, the collapse of the culture.

The photography of Pierre Bourgeade

Faithful to its literary topics, Bourgeade especially photographed the naked one, in black and white. It was friendly several photographers, in particular Man Ray with which it carried out some talks and Pierre Molinier to which it devoted some texts.

Ultimate precision: the author writes poems, erotic often, and always in worms of seven feet.

Rewards

• Price Hermès-ESCP 1966 ( Immortal the , Gallimard)
• Price of the Trade union of dramatic Criticism 1976 ( Palazzo Mental )
• Price max Barthou of the French Academy 1979 ( a gray city , Gallimard)
• Mottart Price of the French Academy 1983 ( the Snakes , Gallimard)
• Price of the public and photography Monte Carlo 1990 ( negro District )
• popular Paul-Féval Grand Prix of literature of the Company of the Men of letters 1998 ( Pitbull , Gallimard)
• Selection Price Renaudot 1998 ( Jewish Hearts , Tristram)

Quotations

Remarks collected within the framework of talks

• “essence for a writer is to arrive at the mystery by clearness. ”
• “the political sex and events fascinate me. The writer érotise the world. To write is a political act. I was never registered with a party but I fundamentally believe myself a man of the left - of extreme left”.
• “To write is the desire of a whole life, an essential passion which devours all the others. That, but can one is not very original be a writer in another manner? ”

Quotations extracted from its works

• “If the Good god existed, that it had fourgué in its dustbin a few tons of steel, glass, of concrete, mixed with all that forty races human and reversed its dustbin in Hudson, then it had created New York. New York hello! hello, rigid virgin with the angles of Hudson and hello, reversed dustbin. And hello, brothers rats who excavate the dustbin. ”
• The old men are, usually, in such a state of decay that they can offend anything nor nobody, if it is not the language.

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