Georges Omer, Robert François, Etienne Merpin, Frédéric Roche
Occupation
Novelist
essayist
screenwriter
Language
French
Literary movement
Surrealism
Draft of a letter to André Breton, 1948, about the Cadavre exquis, surrealist method for artist and writers (with translation).
Biography
Vailland was born in Acy-en-Multien, Oise. His novels include the prize winning Drôle de jeu (1945), Les mauvais coups (1948), Un jeune homme seul (1951), 325 000 francs (1955), and La loi (1957), winner of the Prix Goncourt. His screenplays include Les liaisons dangereuses (with Claude Brûlé and Roger Vadim, 1959) and Le vice et la vertu (with Vadim, 1962). He died, aged 57, in Millionaires, Ain.[1]
Vailland took part in the French Resistance during Nazi occupation. Drôle de jeu (Playing with Fire) is considered one of the finest novels about the anti-fascist Resistance.[2] Vailland joined the French Communist Party but resigned after the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He remained an independent leftist for the rest of his life.[2]
Bibliography
Novels
Drôle de jeu, Prix Interallié, Éditions Corrêa, Paris, 1945
Les Mauvais coups, Éditions Sagittaire, 1948
Bon pied, bon œil, Éditions Corrêa, Paris, 1950
Un Jeune homme seul, Éditions Corrêa, Paris, 1951
Beau masque, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1954
325 000 francs, Éditions Corrêa, Paris, 1955
La Loi, Prix Goncourt 1957. English: The Law
La Fête, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1960
La Truite, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1964
La Visirova, Messidor, Paris, 1986
Cortès, le conquérant de l'Eldorado, Messidor, Paris, 1992
N’aimer que ce qui n’a pas de prix, Éditions du Rocher, Monaco, 1995
Les pages immortelles de Suétone, Éditions du Rocher, Monaco, 2002
Le Saint-Empire, Éditions de la différence, Paris, 1978
Le Surréalisme contre la révolution, Éditions Complexe, Bruxelles, 1988
References
M. Kelly The Cultural and Intellectual Rebuilding of France After the Second World War 0230511163 2004 "Roger Vailland, whose prize-winning novel Playing with Fire (Drôle de jeu, 1945) explored ironies in the work of the Resistance, was a staunch fellow-traveller, who eventually joined the party in 1952.
Schalk, David L. (2015). The Spectrum of Political Engagement: Mounier, Benda, Nizan, Brasillach, Sartre. Princeton University Press. pp.95–96.
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