Jean Gwenaël Dutourd (; 14 January 192017 January 2011) was a French novelist.

Biography

Dutourd was born in

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. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the

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. He entered the Resistance and was again arrested in early 1944. He escaped and took part in the

Liberation of Paris The liberation of Paris (french: Libération de Paris) was a military battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944. Paris had been occupied by Nazi Ger ...

. He was a candidate for the Democratic Union of Labour (UDT) in the legislative elections of 1967. His first work, ''Le Complexe de César'', appeared in 1946 and received the Prix Stendhal. He was elected to the

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on 30 November 1978. In 1997 he was elected as a member of

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

in the Department of Language and Literature. Dutourd died in Paris on 17 January 2011, at the age of 91.

Bibliography

*1946 ''Le Complexe de César'' (Gallimard) *1947 ''Le Déjeuner du lundi'' (Gallimard) *1947 ''Galère'' (Éd. des Granges-Vieilles) *1948 ''L’Arbre'' (Gallimard) *1950 ''Une tête de chien'' (Gallimard) n English: "A Dog's Head: A Novel" tr. Robin Chancellor (1998) ()*1950 ''Le Petit Don Juan, traité de la séduction'' (Robert Laffont) *1952 '' Au bon beurre, scènes de la vie sous l'Occupation'' (Gallimard) wo titles in English: "The Milky Way" tr. Robin Chancellor (Museum Press, 1955, UK); "The Best Butter" (Simon & Schuster, 1955, US)*1955 ''Doucin'' (Gallimard) n English: "Five A.M." tr. Robin Chancellor (Simon & Schuster, 1956)*1956 ''Les Taxis de la Marne'' (Gallimard) n English: "The Taxis of the Marne" tr. Harold King (Simon & Schuster, 1957)*1958 ''Le Fond et la Forme, essai alphabétique sur la morale et sur le style'' (Gallimard) *1959 ''Les Dupes'' (Gallimard) *1959 ''L’Âme sensible'' (Gallimard) n English: "The Man of Sensibility" tr. Robin Chancellor (Simon & Schuster, 1961)*1960 ''Le Fond et la Forme, tome II'' (Gallimard) *1963 ''Rivarol, essai et choix de textes'' (Mercure de France) *1963 ''Les Horreurs de l’amour'' (Gallimard) n English: "The Horrors of Love" tr. Robin Chancellor (Doubleday, 1967)*1964 ''La Fin des Peaux-Rouges'' (Gallimard) n English: "The Last of the Redskins" tr. Grace T. Mayes (Doubleday, 1965)*1965 ''Le Demi-Solde'' (Gallimard) *1965 ''Le Fond et la Forme, tome III'' (Gallimard) *1967 ''Pluche ou l’Amour de l’art'' (Flammarion) n English: "Pluche, or The Love of Art" tr. Robin Chancellor (Doubleday, 1970)*1969 ''Petit Journal 1965-1966'' (Julliard) *1970 ''L’École des jocrisses'' (Flammarion) *1971 ''Le Crépuscule des loups'' (Flammarion) *1971 ''Le Paradoxe du critique'' (Flammarion) *1972 ''Le Printemps de la vie'' (Flammarion) n English: "The Springtime of Life" tr. Denver and Helen Lindley (Doubleday, 1974)*1972 ''Le Paradoxe du critique, suivi de Sept Saisons'' (Flammarion) *1973 ''Carnet d’un émigré'' (Flammarion) *1976 ''2024'' (Gallimard) *1977 ''Mascareigne'' (Julliard) *1977 ''Cinq ans chez les sauvages'' (Flammarion) *1978 ''Les Matinées de Chaillot'' (SPL) *1978 ''Les Choses comme elles sont'' (Stock) *1979 ''Œuvres complètes, tome I'' (Flammarion) *1980 ''Mémoires de Mary Watson'' (Flammarion) *1980 ''Le Bonheur et autres idées'' (Flammarion) *1981 ''Un ami qui vous veut du bien'' (Flammarion) *1982 ''De la France considérée comme une maladie'' (Flammarion ) *1983 ''Henri ou l’Éducation nationale'' (Flammarion) *1983 ''Le Socialisme à tête de linotte'' (Flammarion) *1984 ''Œuvres complètes, tome II'' (Flammarion) *1984 ''Le Septennat des vaches maigres'' (Flammarion) *1985 ''Le Mauvais Esprit, entretiens avec J.-É. Hallier'' (Olivier Orban) *1985 ''La Gauche la plus bête du monde'' (Flammarion) *1986 ''Conversation avec le Général'' (Michèle Trinckvel) *1986 ''Contre les dégoûts de la vie'' (Flammarion) *1986 ''Le Spectre de la rose'' (Flammarion) *1987 ''Le Séminaire de Bordeaux'' (Flammarion) *1989 ''Ça bouge dans le prêt à porter'' (Flammarion) *1990 ''Conversation avec le Général'' (Flammarion) *1990 ''Loin d’Édimbourg'' (Le Fallois) *1990 ''Les Pensées'' (Le Cherche-Midi) *1991 ''Portraits de femmes'' (Flammarion) *1992 ''Vers de circonstances'' (Le Cherche-Midi) *1993 ''L’Assassin'' (Flammarion) *1994 ''Domaine public'' (Flammarion) *1994 ''Le Vieil Homme et la France'' (Flammarion) *1995 ''Le Septième Jour, récits des temps bibliques'' (Flammarion ) *1996 ''Le Feld Maréchal von Bonaparte'' (Flammarion) *1996 ''Scènes de genre et tableaux d’époque'' (Guy Trédaniel) *1997 ''Scandale de la vertu'' (Le Fallois) *1997 ''Trilogie française (Le Séminaire de Bordeaux, Portraits de femmes, l'Assassin)'' (Flammarion) *1997 ''Journal des années de peste : 1986-1991'' ( Plon) *1998 ''Grand chelem à cœur'' (Le Rocher) *1999 ''À la recherche du français perdu'' (Plon) *2000 ''Jeannot, mémoires d’un enfant'' (Plon) *2001 ''Le Siècle des Lumières éteintes'' (Plon) *2002 ''Dutouriana'' (Plon) *2004 ''Journal intime d'un mort'' (Plon) *2006 ''Les perles et les cochons'' (Plon) *2007 : Leporello (Plon) () *2008 : La grenade et le suppositoire (Plon) ()

Translations

''L'Œil d'Apollon'', by G. K. Chesterton; ''Les Muses parlent'', by

Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, ...

; and ''Le Vieil Homme et la Mer'', by

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century f ...

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