Roger Nimier

Roger Nimier (October 31st 1925 with Paris - September 28th 1962 with Garches) is a French writer. Novelist, journalist and scenario writer, he is regarded as the leader of the Hussards.

Course

After brilliant studies (he was prize winner of the open Competition of philosophy), he engages in 1945 with the 2nd regiment of hussards.

He writes in a style evoking Cocteau a first novel which will be published posthumously, under the title: Foreign the . He is published for the first time at twenty-three years, with the Swords (1948), a novel full with insolence, mixing tenderness with the political provocation.

Two years later, it makes appear its most famous novel, blue Hussard , then Perfide and the Large one of Spain , a historico-political test with the tone lampoonist in which Nimier is placed under the supervision of Georges Bernanos.

Of royalist sympathy, influenced by Maurras and ventures it the French Action, he becomes the leader of the Hussards, and publishes the sad Children (1951), then Histoire of a love (1953). According to the council of Jacques Chardonne, which considers its production too fast (five books in five years), he abstains from publishing a novel during ten years.

During this period, it is devoted to criticism, in particular in the review Opéra which it directs, with the policy through regular chronicles in the royalist weekly magazine the French Nation , with the edition near Gaston Gallimard, and with the cinema, in particular at the sides of Louis Malle, with which it writes the scenario of Ascenseur for the scaffold . It prepares with him the adaptation of the Will-o'-the-wisp of Drieu La Rochelle when it dies, the September 28th 1962, in an car accident at the wheel of sound Aston Martin.

Its last novel, D' Artagnan in love , is published a few months afterwards. Perhaps this posthumous novel, which imagines the distress in love with the hero of Dumas, announced a new phase in the work of Nimier.

His/her daughter, Marie Nimier, it also writer, speaks about her relation with her father, dead when it had five years, in her book, the Queen of Silence (Prix Médicis 2004).

Today, a literary prize bears its name (see the article Prix Roger-Nimier).

Works

Original editions

the Swords , novel, Gallimard, August 30th, 1948, 213 pages.
Perfidious , novel, Gallimard, February 1950, 221 pages.
the Large one of Spain , the Roundtable, March 24th, 1950, 240 pages.
blue Hussard , novel, Gallimard, September 28th, 1950, 334 pages.
Love and Néant , Gallimard coll Tests, XLIX, August 31st, 1951, 194 pages. Setting on sale: spring 1953.
sad Children , novel, Gallimard, November 2nd, 1951, 331 pages.
History of a love , novel, Gallimard, October 1953, 277 pages. with the cinema: the large people of Jean Valère with Micheline Presle, Maurice Ronet, Jean seberg
D' Artagnan in love or Five years before , Gallimard, except series, October 26th, 1962, 283 pages.
Days of readings , foreword of Marcel Jouhandeau, Gallimard, February 1965, 274 pages. Reprinting in 1980.
Foreign the , foreword of Paul Morand, Gallimard, March 28th, 1968, 219 pages. Its first written novel, posthumously published.
the Pupil of Aristote , ED. established, introduced and annotated by Marc Dambre, Gallimard, December 15th, 1981, 285 pages.
Pamela was the wrong to repeat its sentence , news illustrated by an original lithography of Bengt Lindström, ED. established and presented by Marc Dambre, prefaced by Dominique Rolin, drawn with 165 specimens including 15 except trade, printed by the HMSO on vellum of Arches (32,5 cm X 24,7), placed under assembly fabric comprising the reproduction of the signature of the artists, Association of the Books Roger Nimier editor, 2nd quarter 1986,23 pages.
are the writers animals? Tests, choice established, annotated and prefaced by Marc Dambre, Shores 1990
the Indies Galandes , News and Tales, ED. established and presented by Marc Dambre, Shores, December 1989.
Varieties , air of Time (1945-1962), texts selected and presented by Marc Dambre, Arléa, March 1999.

Essential works

the Swords . - Francois, young man cynical and without ideal, maintains the doubtful relations with his sister. Under the Occupation, it joined the Milice to try to assassinate Joseph Darnand there, but by provocation, it sympathizes with overcome with the Libération of Paris.
blue Hussard . - A French regiment in occupation in Germany of year zero. Monologs and dialogs of a brilliant ease and a discrete romanticism.
sad Children . - Olivier Malentraide is completely assembled against his family; he makes silly things, becomes writer and has success. He represents the type of a new youth directed against the weakness and the taste of living parents, against a certain form of Catholicism.
History of a love . - Two women dispute the same man. The love is perhaps only one play useless. Is it worth only the sorrow to be told?

These works are published in book of pocket.

Studies on Roger Nimier

Marcel Aymé, Roger Nimier , Paris, “Books of France”, February 1967.
Yves Berger, Roger Nimier , in Writers of today, Paris, Grasset.
Antoine Blondin, Andre Fraigneau, Roger Nimier , Paris, “Grave accent”, Laffont, 1964.
Pierre Boutang, Bees of Delphes , Paris, the Roundtable.
Jacques Burrs, Lettres in Roger Nimier , Paris, Grasset.
Marc Dambre, Roger Nimier, Hussard of the half-century , Paris, Flammarion, 1989.
Olivier Frébourg, Roger Nimier, trafficker of insolence , Monaco, Editions of the Rock, 1989.
Alain Sanders, Roger Nimier: hussard blue and red heel , Editions of Paris 2006.
Christian Millau, With the gallop of Hussards , Paris, Fallois, January 1999

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