Roger Vailland (born with Acy-in-Multien the October 16th 1907, deceased with Meillonnas the May 12th 1965) is a writer, essay writer and international reporter French. Its work includes/understands novels, tests and theater, newspapers of voyages and close friends. It took part in several films on its texts and those of other authors.

Biography

His/her father holds a cabinet of geometrician and the family settles in 1910, 18 rue Flatters in Paris.

In 1919, after the return of war of his/her father, they become rémois, always for professional reasons. Rheims is in full rebuilding. The father of Roger transmits to him the love of the countryside and Plutarque, Shakespeare and the Thousand and One Nights. In the club of the " Phrères simplistes" that it animates with his comrades (cf Rene Daumal), it discovers the taste of the disordered state of the directions, drugs and the female and male loves. It tastes by trouble with boxing and poetry. It is anticonformist.

In 1925, the family moves in with Montmorency. Roger enters to Louis-the-Large in class of hypokhâgne. Two years later, his/her grandmother places it in her apartment street Pétrarque, to allow him to prepare a license of Letters in the Sorbonne.

Thanks to the councils and in support of Robert Desnos, he is engaged in 1928 by Pierre Lazareff as journalist with Paris-Midday (an edition of Paris-Evening) and moves in a hotel of the street Bréa, where he can in all peace consume his drugs.

This same year, he is cofounder of the review the Big game , in which take part Rene Daumal, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte and the painter Joseph Sima, ventures literary who is defined as the “first revelation of experimental metaphysics”. This movement tries to reach the surreal world, where the life and death, reality and the imaginary one meet. Three numbers of the review the Big game will appear, the fourth will never be published. The group is surbedded in 1932 at the end of four years, because of the progressive departure of its members.

Roger côtoie cultural Paris of the time: Robert Desnos, Joyce, Cocteau, Gide,… He attends the club of the Bar of the Castle, street of the Castle, where live Prévert, Marcel Duhamel, Benjamin Péret, etc and where is accommodated as hosts of Aragon passage, Queneau, Robert Desnos, Michel Leiris. In March 1929, it is excluded from this club very closed by the political intransigence of Breton and Aragon.

To defer to Paris-Evening, he traverses various countries, voyages of which he will make detailed accounts. He publishes serialized stories.

In December 1934, he lives the 38 rue de l'Université, which he occupies with Andrée Blavette (called " Boule"), its future wife, in alternation with the private mansion of Blavette, Léandre villa with Montmartre, place which will be one of its home ports until during the war. He will separate from Andree at the beginning of 1947.

At the end of 1940, the war and its journalistic profession lead it Gambetta course to Lyon. It slips quickly of ideas Collaboration nists upon an engagement into the Résistance to the sides of the Communists. The war is the catalyst which will release Vailland of the anguish of the writing.

Engaged in the Resistance since 1942 and on mission to the residence of Daniel Cordier, an agent of Resistance, he discovers a specimen of Lucien Leuwen , plunges himself in his reading… and launches out at once in the writing of Drôle of play . Eager to withdraw itself with calm to write its novel, it settles in June 1942, on the council of a friend, with the " Marion" castle; , a little well off Chavannes-on-Reyssouze close to Borough-in-Bresse. Drôle of play appears with the Libération and will receive the Interallied Prix in 1945. Vailland put at it the daily newspaper of the life of a resistant Communist, shared between his political convictions and its heart of seducer.

He for a long time dreamed to write a large novel without reaching that point, then, until the end of its life, he connects them the ones following the others with an impressive facility… and an effective method: a diagram fixed on the wall indicates in X-coordinate the days of writing and ordinate the number of written pages.

In December 1947, his/her friends De Meyenbourg installed with Sceaux have pity of its material situation and offer hospitality until December 1950 to him. This same year 1950, it joint with other writers like Marcelle Auclair, Jacques Audiberti, Herve Bazin, Emile Danoën and André Maurois for the number of the Nave (re-examined Lucie Faure) entitled “the Love is to be reinvented”.

After a voyage in the Far East, it moves in spring 1951 with Elisabeth Naldi (met at the end of 1949) with the Barn with the Wolves (also called in its books the Barn with the Winds), an austere small house of the Allymes, hamlet with six kilometers of Ambérieu-in-Bugey. Far from the " intellectuals of gauche" Parisian, he discovers the life of the workmen and the peasants. Elisabeth and Roger then live the poorest years and happiest of their life.

In 1954, Roger and Elisabeth marry and settle, with the autumn, in a beautiful house of the center of Meillonnas, with twenty kilometers of Borough-in-Bresse.

Registered with the Communist party in 1952, it is disengaged after the rising of Budapest in 1956, it writes a series of novels " engagés" : the bad blows (1948) - history of a couple which is demolished -, Bon foot good eye (1950) - the discovery of the militancy -, Beau masks (1954) - the topic of trade-union fraternity and the fight against the alienation, 325.000 francs (1955) - lampoon against the capitalism which collected less votes of sworn of Goncourt than Water frays , of Roger Ikor. The class struggle is not its single topic of predilection. It creates rather cynical characters, even libertines.

This evolution set of themes marks a change in its literary work: thus in the law (Price Goncourt 1957), it draws up the portrait stendhalien of a dominating hero, in the festival (1960), that of a donjuanesque hero, in the trout (1964) that of an young woman decided to exploit the men without anything to concede to them. Vailland also devotes two tests to famous libertines: Laclos (1953) and Praise of the Cardinal of Bernis (1956).

" My work method consists in making each chapter a scene, I start to write my scene only when I perfectly imagined all the details I am content only if the imaginary decoration of the scene became so precise that I cannot change by imagination a piece of furniture of place without all the scene, including the behavior of the characters, being modified by it… " Roger Vailland, personal records. (Cf the biography of Yves Courrière, p. 604-605.)

All its life, Roger Vailland will have rejected the constraints and will have sought with an elegant ease, to know happiness: a practice hedonist which marginalizes it.

International reporter, communist novelist who will roll in Jaguar at the end of his life, drug addict, almost collaborator but large resistant, alcoholic, amateur of cycling and mountain, ascetic when he writes, ex-surrealist, sex maniac, sworn enemy of Aragon, Roger Vailland early started to operate the " disordered state of all sens" expensive with its Master Arthur Rimbaud.

Roger Vailland dies in fifty-seven years, on May 12th, 1965, of a lung cancer. He rests in the cemetery of Meillonnas, close to Borough-in-Bresse.

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