Stefan Wul

Stefan Wul is the pseudonym of the writer of Science-fiction French Pierre Pairault (born the March 27th 1922 with Paris, dead the November 26th 2003).

Biographical note

Pierre Pairault is born in 1922 in the fourth district from Paris and follows traditional studies to the College Rocroy Saint-Leon. He obtains his baccalaureat of philosophy in 1940. In his youth, Pierre Pairault wrote already stories of which it sold the chapters to his comrades against the moderate amount of a penny. But at the time of choosing the die of his studies, his/her father disadvises to him making studies of literature. At the end of the Second world war, it obtains its diploma of Chirurgien-dentiste and Marie in 1951. It leaves soon Paris to settle in the countryside Norman starting from 1952.

Pierre Pairault written under the pseudonym of Stefan Wul as from 1956 and thus begins his career of writer at thirty-four years, parallel to his trade of dental surgeon. The pseudonym Stefan Wul refers in the name of an atomic scientist of the Ural discovered in an specialized magazine. After some unfruitful tests in the field of the detective novel, Pierre Pairault chooses a little the Science-fiction by chance, simply because his wife had complained about a novel of S.F which it had just read. Convinced to better be able to make, Pierre Pairault launches out in the adventure of anticipation and will publish eleven novels between 1956 and 1959, all appeared in the famous collection “Anticipation” of the editions black Fleuve, and this in spite of the literary bad reputation of the science fiction at that time. Stefan Wul also took part in the creation of the cover designs of its novels by sending to the illustrator Rene Brantonne several sketches of work. From the point of view of the method, Stefan Wul always stated to work without plan nor guiding line, on the basis of a simple starting idea developed little by little with the wire of the writing. Many its surprising falls came to him only in the course of drafting, without premeditation. Speaking about science fiction, Stefan Wul had an artistic approach near to painting, affirming to be interested only in the sensible universes, made odors, colors, forms, landscapes and animals marvellous:

The magic of the decorations and the environment evoked by the music, here what inspires to me, I believe. And all the remainder is additional. The booklet of opera, I don't care passionately; what interests me, they are the cymbals, an environment, here is, a climate.

After one long period of eighteen years silence, Stefan Wul delivers its last novel in 1977 with Noô , thus creating last once the event.

These novels are regarded today as the traditional ones in the world of the French Science-fiction and were republished many times. Its greater French success remains the Post-apocalyptic novel Niourk which recalls the history of a black child, rejected by his tribe, party in search of the mythical city of Niourk .

Stefan Wul briefly took part in the fandom One would say Pierre Versins and published some news and collections of poetry which draw their inspiration in the universe of the science fiction.

Works

Novels

The novels of Stefan Wul are presented by order of publication:

News

The news which follows is presented with the references of their first publications:

the Noise (1957), in Fiction n°43;
Failure in plan 3 (1958), in Satellite n°1;
Expertise (1958), in Fiction 54;
It is enough to one nothing (1958), in Satellite n°5;
Sets of vestals (1960), in Fiction special n°2;
Gwendoline (1961), in Fiction n°87;
Right of reply (1974), in new arts persons, n°2427;
the Archangel (1982), in Stefan Wul, Odyssey under control , Denoël, coll Presence of the future, n°542, 1993;
the Wolf boot (1995), in Stefan Wul, complete Works - 1 , Lefrancq, 1996;
Forfeiture (2000), in Phoenix n°50.

Collections of poetry

Apocalypses.

Adaptations to the cinema

the novel WHO in series was adapted in Cartoon film in 1973 by Rene Laloux under the title the wild Planet , with drawings of Roland Topor.

the Orphan of Perdide was also adapted in 1981 by Rene Laloux under the title the Masters of time , with drawings of Moebius.

External bonds

Chronic on Chronic Noô
on Stefan Wul

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