Serge Rezvani (born Cyrus Rezvani in 1928) is a French painter, engraver, writer
(novels, plays), as well as a songwriter-composer-performer (he describes himself as "multidisciplinary") He is also known by his pseudonym Cyrus Bassiak.
Life
Born in Tehran, Rezvani is the son of a Persian father, Medjid-Khan Rezvani (1900–1962), and a
Jewish
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mother who had immigrated from Russia. His mother moved with him to France when he was age seven and spoke only Russian. He attended a boarding school for Russian immigrants, where he learned French.
[Alexie Lorca]
''Serge Rezvani or nostalgia for the present''
'' L'Express'', 1 June 2004
Rezvani has written more than 40 novels, 15 plays and two collections of poetry. He is the author of more than 150 songs, including the famous ', sung by
Jeanne Moreau in the film ''
Jules and Jim
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as well as ', also performed by Moreau (he signed these songs under pseudonym Cyrus Bassiak, which means "barefoot" in Russian).
Rezvani also wrote two songs for Godart's ''
Pierrot le fou'':
Jean-Paul Belmondo
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and
Anna Karina
Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; September 22, 1940 – December 14, 2019) sing, ''Jamais je ne t'ai dit que je t'aimerais toujours, ô mon amour'' and ''Ma ligne de chance''.
''Ma ligne de chance''
After losing his first wife, Lula, to Alzheimer's in 2004, in mid-2005 he re-established acquaintance with the French actress Marie-José Nat
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, who was then the widow of Michel Drach
Michel Drach (18 October 1930 in Paris – 14 February 1990 in Paris) was a French film director, writer, producer and actor.
Life and career
Drach was born in Paris, France, the son of Yvonne (Vanderheym) and Maurice Drach. His family was Jewis ...
. The two couples had known each other and had briefly met in the 1960s.[ Serge and Marie-José married on 30 September 2005, aware (as they themselves said) that they would have only a few more years to live, and he wrote a book about their relationship, ''Ultime amour''.] Rezvani lived with Marie-José Nat in Bonifacio until her death in October 2019.[.]
Work
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Novels, tales and autobiographical writings
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Essays
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Poetry
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Translations
* Translation in French of '' Platonov'', the first play by Anton Chekhov, which bears the seeds of Chekhov's entire future work. ''Platonov, le fléau de l'absence de père'', French text and foreword by Rezvani, Actes Sud, series "Babel", 2003.
* Translation of the Iranian author Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
''Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám'' is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (') attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".
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Art books
* ''Pour une philosophie du jardin'', éditions Tohu-Bohu, 15 March 2019, .
References
External links
Official website
Rezvani interprète
interview by RFI
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Le questionnaire de la chouette
on Les Belles Lettres
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The publishing house, originally named ''Société Les Belles Lettres pour le développement de la culture classique'', ...
publishing house, 20 May 2015.
''Le tourbillon de la vie''
the guitar player is S. Rezvani.
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20th-century French non-fiction writers
21st-century French non-fiction writers
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
21st-century French dramatists and playwrights
Grand prix Jean Giono recipients
20th-century French painters
20th-century male artists
21st-century French painters
21st-century male artists
20th-century French male singers
French lyricists
1928 births
Living people
People from Tehran
Naïve Records artists
Iranian emigrants to France
Iranian people of Russian-Jewish descent
French people of Russian-Jewish descent
French people of Iranian descent