Paul Louis Rossi (born 1933 Nantes,

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) is a French critic and poet.

Life

His grandparents Queffelec spoke Breton and Cornish. His father was Italian, of the Venice area. He was shot by the Germans in 1943 in

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, when Rossi was ten years old. He published a booklet entitled ''Liturgy for the night'' in 1958, during the Algerian War. He came to work early to

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; he wanted to become a journalist. He wrote music reviews: in ''Jazz Magazine'' and in the ''Cahiers du jazz'', and film criticism: "The Arbitrary", dedicated to

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, published in ''Camera Pen''. He collaborated with '' French Letters'' and the journal ''Change'', directed by

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. In the 1970s he made, with

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, Lionel Ray, and

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, exercises on the world ''Oulipo: The Inimaginaires''. His travel book of ''St. Ursula'' was published by Gallimard in 1973. He lives in Paris.

Awards

*1995 Mallarmé prize

Works

* *Elévation de l'enclume (1997) *Escalation of the anvil (1997) * * *La Voyageuse immortelle (2001) *Le Voyage de Sainte-Ursule (Gallimard, 1973) *La Traversée du Rhin (Hachette POL, 1981) *Crossing the Rhine (POL Hachette, 1981) * * *Régine (Julliard, 1990) *Cose Naturali (Éd. Unes, 1991) *La Montagne de Kaolin (Julliard, 1992) * * *Le Fauteuil rouge (Julliard, 1994) * * *Le Vieil homme et la nuit (Julliard, 1997) *André Lambotte (ARTGO, Bruxelles, 1997) *La vie secrète de Fra Angelico (Bayard, 1997) *Cose Naturali (Éd. Ergo Pers Gent, 1997) * *Fuscelli (Éd. Tandem, Belgique, 2000)

References

External links

"Paul Louis Rossi", ''P O L Catalogue''"Paul Louis Rossi", ''Le Printemps des Poetes''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rossi, Paul-Louis Writers from Nantes 1931 births Living people French literary critics French art critics Jazz writers 20th-century French poets 21st-century French poets 21st-century French male writers French male poets 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers