Pierre Swell

Pierre Boulle is a French writer (born the February 20th 1912 with Avignon - deceased on January 31st, 1994), of technical training (engineer Supélec 1933).

Biography

It was young, engineer Agronome of SOCFIN in Malaysia and it is by traversing the neighbouring regions that it piled up the matter and the decoration of his future novels. The SOCFIN had plantations of Hévéa S among largest of the world.

It engaged and fought in China, Burma and Indo-China. After the Second world war, he lived some time in Malaysia, before returning to be established in France.

In November 1939, it is mobilized and destined for Saigon. It multiplies the assignments in Cochinchine. In February 1940, it is affected in Annam, in October with the Laos.

In April 1941, demobilized, it awaits an English visa to turn over to Malaysia. In July, it returns to Singapore (still part of the Malaysia) and engages in the free French Forces (FFL). In August, in training course with the English service specialized in the espionage of the enemy installations abroad (the Force 316), he learns how to make jump of the bridges. From there " comes; The bridge of the Kwai" river;.

In January 1942, it joined China since the Burma, in Buick, under the name of Peter John Rule. In April, it approaches the border with Indo-China, country occupied by the Japanese whom it thinks more and more of joining. In August, it descends the Namna river in the hope to gain Hanoï, on a boat of bamboos which it manufactured. Captured by villagers, he recognizes his identity in front of an officer petainist and is imprisoned. In October, at the martial Court of Hanoï, he is declared guilty of treason and is degraded, deposed French nationality and is condemned to the forced labors with perpetuity. Under the control surface of the Admiral Decoux, the French Indo-China was petainist.

Work

Reception and perception of its work

Two of the novels of Pierre Boulle knew a world notoriety, thanks to their tographic adaptations Cinéma: the Bridge of the river Kwaï and the Planet of the monkeys (1963).

the Bridge of the river Kwaï obtained the Prix Holy-Beuve in 1952. Inspired one period of its life of engaged in the FFL, the novel and film of 1957 of David Lean, ensured the celebrity of Pierre Boulle.

the Planet of the monkeys knew many adaptations (telefilms, cinema (1967, by Franklin Schaffner and 2001 by Tim Burton), cartoons), none of them is not really faithful to the original. This work of Science-fiction calls in question the definition of the Humanité.

In 1976, for the whole of its work, Pierre Boulle accepted the Grand Prix of the Société of the Men of letters .

Pierre Boulle was, with Jacques Spitz and Rene Barjavel, the pioneer of the French science fiction. In a history written in 1949, One Night Interminable , published in the collection Tales of the Absurdity (1953), Pierre Swell cheek with the temporal paradoxes, with the manner of Barjavel in the Imprudent Traveller, showing an astonishing modernism. This collection is in addition the first collection of news of French science fictions.

It is one of the French authors most translated and most known abroad, more particularly in the United States where its novels were a great success, doped by the film adaptations of the Pont of the river Kwaï and the Planet of the Monkeys. It was thus the object of a literary study, Pierre Boulle of Lucille Frackman Becker, published at Twayne Publishers and ever translated into French.

For example, in the Televised series derived from X-Files The Lone Gunmen, in the episode Planet off the Frohikes , one finds the Boulle Behavioral Institute , in homage to the author of French science fiction. In addition, in episode 4 of the first season of X-Files ( Devil of the New Jersey ), one to arrange is called Peter Boulle .

Posthumous works

Five years after the death of Pierre Swell, his niece, whom it had raised like her own daughter, and her husband discovered new new manuscripts in the files of the author. Almost illegible, it was necessary to pass by again in twenty thousand pages discovered to restore them. At the conclusion of this tiresome work, a new novel left the lapse of memory: the Archeologist and the Mystery of Néfertiti, probably written between 1949 and 1951, and from now on appeared with the Seek-Midday in 2005, as well as new or ignored news, joined together in a collection: the Removal of the Obelisk .

Bibliography of works first

Novels

  • William Conrad (Julliard, 1950)

  • the Malayan Sacrilege (Julliard, 1951)
  • the Bridge of the river Kwaï (Julliard, 1952) - Price Holy-Beuve 1952
  • the Face (Julliard, 1953)
  • the Torturer (Julliard, 1954)
  • the Test of the white men (Julliard, 1955)
  • Ways of the hello (Julliard, 1958)
  • a trade of lord (Julliard, 1960)
  • the Planet of the monkeys (Julliard, 1963)
  • The Garden of Kanashima (Julliard, 1964)
  • the Photographer (Julliard, 1967)
  • Plays of the spirit (Julliard, 1971)
  • Ears of jungle (Flammarion, 1972)
  • Virtues of the hell (Flammarion, 1974)
  • the Good léviatan (Julliard, 1977)
  • Slides of the sky (Julliard, 1979)
  • the Energy of despair (Julliard, 1981)
  • Gleamings (Flammarion, 1982)
  • the Whale of the Falklands (Julliard, 1983)
  • For the love of art (Julliard, 1985)
  • the Professor Mortimer (Editions of Fallois, 1988)
  • the Misfortune of the ones… (Editions of Fallois, 1990)
  • With us two Satan (Julliard, 1992)
  • the Archeologist and the mystery of Néfertiti (Seek-Midday, 2005) - posthumous Work

Accounts

  • With the sources of the river Kwaï (Julliard, 1966)

  • Ilon, memories (Editions of Fallois, 1990) - autobiographical novel

Collections of news

If Pierre Boulle is famous for his novels, it is however in its news that it expresses the most originality and of force. Here the list of the news which he wrote, and the collections in which one can find them.

  • Tales of the absurdity (Julliard, 1953) - Grand Prix of the news (Literary prize of Evian 1953)

    • Contains: the Hallucination ; One night interminable ; the Weight of a sonnet ; the Reign of wise the ; the Perfect robot

  • E=mc ² (Julliard, 1957)

    • Contains: Luniens ; Love and gravity ; the Miracle ; E=mc ² or the novel of an idea

  • a strange event (Editions Florentin Mouret, 1957)

  • charitable Histoires (Julliard, 1965)

    • Contains: the enigmatic Saint ; the Man who collected the pins ; History of the good small writer ; the diabolic Weapon ; the Countdown ; the Man who hated the machines

  • Quia absurdum : on the Earth as with the Sky (Julliard, 1970)

    • Contains: Its Last Combat ; the Plumber ; Interferences ; the Mounting with the Duck ; When the Snake failed ; Holy Places ; the Heart and the Galaxy

  • Perfidious Histoires (Flammarion, 1976)

    • Contains: Royal pardon ; the Marvellous Palate of the Small town; the Laws ; Limits of the endurance ; Service Compassion ; Angelica Mr Edyh

  • the Removal of the Obelisk (Seeks It midday, 2007) - posthumous Work

    • Contient: the Removal of the Obelisk ; a strange event ; the Coded message ; a suspect death; on April 1st ; the Culprit ; the Cruising of the Alligator

News, novellas

  • a strange event (Florentin Mouret editor, 1957). For F.M. & his/her friends. In-12 stitched. Single pulling with 142 specimens on pure wire (after 1 Japan & 7 shangai).

Tests

  • the Strange crusade of the emperor Frederic II (Flammarion, 1968)

  • Universe ondoyant (Julliard, 1987)

Play

  • William Conrad: part in four acts . the Apron theater , February 1st, 1962, p. 8-36. Adaptation by the author of his novel.

Film scenario

  • Walt Disney' S Siam (New Editions, 1955) - Scenario for film of Armand Bigle according to Siam (Payot, Lausanne, 1955)

Forewords

Pierre Boulle is in addition the author of the forewords of the following works:

  • Jean Coué. the Man of the river Kwaï . Gallimard, 1980. (Coll Folio junior; N° 111; Series Full wind)
  • Anatole France. the Revolt of the Angels . Calmann-Levy, 1980.
  • Henri Falconer. Malaysia . Stock, 1986, Price Goncourt in 1930.
  • Frederic Louguet. Failures and Mips . Technical Montrouge Dunod, 1992.

Compilations

  • Four among its six collections of news was compiled in a volume published in 1992 at Julliard.

  • Romance heroic (Slow train, 1996)

  • Strange Planet (Bus, 1998)

Works second/adaptations, continuations…

Novels

  • the Gold of the river Kwaï (SAS)/Gerard de Villiers. Paris: Plon, 1968,252 p.

  • the Planet of the monkeys /a novelisation of John Whitman; according to a scenario of William Broyles Jr and Lawrence Konner & Mark D. Rosenthal; transl. of American by Pascal Loubet. Paris: Editions I read, 2001,158 p. (I read; N° 6050). ISBN 2-290-31407-2. Edition illustrated junior.

  • the Planet of the monkeys /a novelisation of William T. Quick; according to a scenario of William Broyles Jr and Lawrence Konner & Mark D. Rosenthal; transl. of American by Paul Benita. Paris: Editions I read, 2001,253 p. (I read; N° 6049). ISBN 2-290-31408-0

Cartoons

  • Planet of the monkeys . Lyon: Lug editions, February 1977, n° 1,58 p.

    • Contains: “Planet of the monkeys” (1st episode), scenario of Doug Moench, drawings of George Tuska and Mike Esposito p. 3-27. “Proscribed planet of the monkeys” (1st episode), scenario Doug Moench, drawings Mike Ploog, p. 35-58.

  • Planet of the monkeys . Lyon: Lug editions, March 1977, n° 2,58 p.

    • Contains: “Planet of the monkeys: Prisoners in the monkeys” (1st episode), scenario of Doug Moench, drawings of George Tuska and Mike Esposito p. 3-22. “Proscribed planet of the monkeys: Terror in the closed area” (2nd episode), scenario Doug Moench, drawings Mike Ploog, p. 34-58.

  • Planet of the monkeys . Lyon: Lug editions, April 1977, n° 3,58 p.

    • Contains: “Planet of the monkeys: the tracked man” (3rd episode), scenario of Doug Moench, drawings of George Tuska and Mike Esposito p. 3-22. “Proscribed planet of the monkeys: The Pit with the mutants” (3rd episode), scenario Doug Moench, drawings Mike Ploog, p. 35-58.

  • Planet of the monkeys . Lyon: Lug editions, May 1977, n° 4,58 p.

    • Contains: “Planet of the monkeys: judges” (4th episode), scenario of Doug Moench, drawings of George Tuska and Mike Esposito p. 3-22. “Proscribed planet of the monkeys: It was a small ship” (4th episode), scenario Doug Moench, drawings Mike Ploog, p. 31-58.

  • Planet of the monkeys . Lyon: Lug editions, June 1977, n° 5,50 p.

    • Contains: “Planet of the monkeys: in the closed area” (5th episode), scenario of Doug Moench, drawings of George Tuska and Mike Esposito p. 3-22. “Proscribed planet of the monkeys: Malagueña the gipsy” (5th episode), scenario Doug Moench, drawings Mike Ploog, p. 33-50.

  • Planet of the monkeys . Lyon: Lug editions, July 1977, n° 6,50 p.

    • Contains: “Planet of the monkeys: the secrecy” (6th episode), scenario of Doug Moench, drawings of George Tuska and Mike Esposito p. 3-22. “Proscribed planet of the monkeys: heirs to planet” (6th episode), scenario Doug Moench, drawings Mike Ploog, p. 28-50

  • Planet of the monkeys. Lyon: Lug editions, January 1978, n° 12,58 p.

    • Contains: “The secrecy of planet of the monkeys: The Last holocaust” (6th episode), scenario of Doug Moench, drawings of Alfredo Alcala p. 3-23. “Man among the monkeys”, scenario Doug Moench, drawings Herb Trimpe, daN Adkins and Sal Trapani, p. 31-50.

  • Planet of the monkeys . Lyon: Lug editions, April 1978, n° 15,58 p. ISSN 0152-1861

    • Contains: “Escaped prisoners of planet of the monkeys: A paving stone in the pond! ” (3rd episode), scenario of Doug Moench, drawings of Rival Rico p. 3-22.

  • the Planet of the monkeys: the official adaptation of film of Tim Burton /Scénario Scott Combines; drawing Davidé Fabbri; transl. Jerome Wicky. Semic comics, n° September 1st, th and th 2001, 52 p.

  • the Planet of the monkeys: the Human war ''/Scenario Ian Edginton; drawing Paco Medina and Adrian Sibar; transl. Jerome Wicky. Semic comics, n° November 2nd, th and th 2001, 76 p.

  • the Planet of the monkeys /Pierre Swell; an extract adapted by Michael Gall; drawn by Patrick Deubelbeiss. I Bouquine , January 2003, n° 227, p. 65-76. File of Veronique Gosselin p. 77-82.

Films

Telefilms

See too

Critical bibliography

Études devoted to Pierre Swell

  • FRACKMAN BECKER, Lucille. Pierre Swell , Twayne Publishers, 1996 (in English).
  • ROY, Paulette. Pierre Swell and his Work , Julliard, 1970.

Files in reviews

  • “the Bridge of the Kwaï river: complete account in photographs of film”. My film , n° 619, July 2nd, 1958, p. 8-9.
  • Fantastic zone , September-October 2001, n° 2.
  • “Special except series Tim Burton & the Planet of the monkeys”. the fantastic Screen: the cinema of the new millenium , be 2001, except series n° 1,82 p.
  • CAMY, Gerard. “As stupid as us”. Télérama , August 2nd, 2000, n° 2638, p. 47.
  • DESCHAMPS, Jean-Marc, LAMORY, Laurent-Xavier, PITTILONI, Pierre. “The Planet of the monkeys: novel with film”. Tenth planet: the magazine of the derivative products , August-September 2001, n° 12, p. 30-37.
  • DJOUMI, Rafik. “The Planet of the monkeys: Tim Burton, a man among the monkeys”. Mad movies , September 2001, n° 134, p. 32-40.
  • JAUBERTY, Christian. “Planet story: monkeys of Tim Burton”. First , August 2001, n° 293, p. 94-101.
  • KIKO. “The Planet of the monkeys”. Generation series , January-February - March 200, n° 31, p. 50-55.
  • LEBRETON, France. “The Return of planet of the monkeys”. Pilgrim magazine , August 17th, 2001, n° 6194, p. 50-51.
  • MICHAUD, Juliette. “Planet of the monkeys: the photo album, interviews”. Studio magazine , September 2001, n° 170, p. 66-77.
  • PAUMIER, Philippe. “The Planet of the monkeys: slides of turning”. Movies live , April 2001, n° 45, p. 108-113.
  • TOULLEC, Marc. “The Planet of the monkeys: the remix of Tim Burton”. Movies live , September 2001, n° 49, p. 46-55

External bonds

  • Bio-bibliography
  • a summary study of the work of Pierre Swell
  • Another study summary on the work of Pierre Boulle
  • Critique of the '' Jeux of the Spirit ''
  • Témoignage of Rene Poujade, General secretary of the Federation of the Resistance networks in Indo-China.
  • Article of the BNF concerning the gift of the manuscripts of Pierre Swell.

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