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  French Literature - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Early 20th-century poets, like Emile Verhaeren, Jean Moréas, and Henri de Régnier, all initially embraced Symbolism, then abandoned it, Verhaeren for a violent lyricism that is almost Romantic, Moréas and Régnier for Classical forms and themes.
His own output is very small, but his influence is seen in dramatists like Jean Genet: in Les Bonnes (1947; The Maids, 1954) and Le Balcon (1960; The Balcony, produced earlier than the French version, in 1957), cruelty enshrined in ritual and masquerade, as advocated by Artaud, evokes a visceral response in the spectator.
These are but examples of a rich and varied genre, to which should be added the name of Georges Simenon, a master of the psychological detective novel, and a writer of straight fiction with an acute perception of human nature.
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 French Literature - Search View - ninemsn Encarta
The second part of the poem, of some 18,000 lines, completed by Jean de Meun between 1275 and 1280, is different in character, containing disquisitions on all aspects of medieval life: social, economic, political, and religious.
In the theatre, the tragicomedies of Alexandre Hardy and Jean de Rotrou dramatized conflicts of love and honour among high-born characters, and aimed at surprising and astonishing the spectator with violent action and lavish changes of scenery.
St Jean de Brébeuf, Racan, and the poets whose works appeared in the Recueil de Poésies Chrétiennes et Diverses (Collection of Christian and Other Poems, 1671), edited by Jean de La Fontaine, express personal sentiments in harmonious post-Malherbian verse.
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 Patapoufs & Filifers
Patapoufs and Filifers was enormous: the 75 drawings tell an additional story besides that of Maurois: Bruller for instance has worked out the differences between the land of the fatsos and the land of the skinny people into the smallest details.
Bruller is therefore often perceived as co-author of this children’s book, and Maurois himself was full of praise for his drawings: 'To my great pleasure,
Jean Bruller was not only involved with illustrated books as a writer and illustrator: for eight years, he wrote a column called 'The bibliophile's eye' in
www.kb.nl /bc/koopman/1926-1930/c87-en.html   (606 words)

  
 France-diplomatie [Label France, magazine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jean Echenoz has breathed new life into French literature in the last thirty years, bringing to it his offbeat, almost magical, style, totally devoid of any heavy psychology and nostalgia.
When his publisher died in 2001, Jean Echenoz was the only one who declined to make any tribute in the press.
Jean Echenoz himself prefers to explain his novelistic approach as paying homage.
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr /label_france/49/gb/18.html   (1067 words)

  
 Alex Richardson - Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the allegorical work, a young poet dreams of idealised love, and in his dream the woman he adores is symbolised by a rosebud in a garden representing courtly life.
In the theatre, the tragicomedies of Alexandre Hardy and Jean de Rotrou dramatised conflicts of love and honour among high-born characters, and aimed at surprising and astonishing the spectator with violent action and lavish changes of scenery.
His own output is very small, but his influence is seen in dramatists like Jean Genet: in Les Bonnes (1947; The Maids, 1955) and Le Balcon (1960; The Balcony, produced earlier than the French version, in 1957), cruelty enshrined in ritual and masquerade, as advocated by Artaud, evokes a visceral response in the spectator.
ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk /year3/2001/richardson/frenchlit.htm   (8106 words)

  
 Comic creator: Jean Bruller (Vercors)
Jean Bruller was a French writer and illustrator.
He has published several books since the 1920s, and was known for his absurd illustrated novels.
The first book that was printed was 'Le Silence de la Mer', which Bruller had writen under the pseudonym Vercors.
www.lambiek.net /artists/b/bruller_jean.htm   (120 words)

  
 AMG Web: History of Arts et Métiers Graphiques
Symbolist poems from Paul Valéry[15] and Léon-Paul Fargue,[16] Surrealist works by Jean Cocteau[17] and Paul Eluard,[18] the fantasies of Apollinaire,[19] and writings by novelists Henry de Montherlant,[20] and André Malraux[21] were all featured on the magazine's pages.
Even though the graphic arts periodical was not sustainable after the war, the audience that read it could still be sated by occaisional arts publications.
Jean O'Meara then took over and was head until 1974.
ellie.rit.edu:1213 /amghist3.htm   (1424 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Poet of the underworld
Frustrated by the film establishment, which regarded him as an amateur, and angered by what he saw as the "communist dictatorship" of the unions, he built his own Studio Jenner, in 1947, the only director to have one.
His first film, an adaptation of Le Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (pseudonym of Jean Bruller, a celebrated Resistance hero) was shot in Vercors's own home.
It is the story of a German officer billeted with a French family who maintain a total silence throughout his cultured monologues.
film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,985428,00.html   (1258 words)

  
 Edition Jean Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 Jean Bruller Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on Jean Bruller
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 Spalding Tour Edition -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It was founded by writer and illustrator Jean Bruller (1902-1991) and writer Pierre de Lescure (1891-1963) in 1941 in Paris, during the German occupation of northern France (by November 1942, German forces occupied the whole of France).
The first book published was ''La Silence de la mer'' (The Silence of the Sea) by co-founder Jean Bruller (in 1942, under the pseudonym Vercors), which was distributed, like other Resistance texts, by being passed from person to person.
After the war, when ''Les Éditions de Minuit'' was first able to operate openly, it continued to publish books but for the first few years was financially unstable.
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 Authors "V" page of ULTIMATE ROMANCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
Lif killed Fenris at Ragnarok, avenging the death of Odin.
Jean Valjean: hero of Hugo's "Les Miserables" Jeffrey Valka: Locus/Contento Lists: Short Fiction: * "Heart's Desire" [Pirate Writings, no.15, 1997] Valkyries: [Norse = "choosers of the slain"] Odin's attendants or daughters in Germanic myth, who come to the battlefield and carry heroic fighters at death for transportation to Valhalla, the chief of whom is Brynhild.
Jean Vicary: Romance Novels: * Katherine Vickery: Romance Novels: * Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1744): jurist/philospher of ITALY who tried to apply scientific methodology to the study of Hostory.
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 Vercors - new and used books
Vercors, was the nom de plume of an engraver called Jean Bruller; He was the author of the Resistance classic "Le Silence de la Mer" and co-founder of the clandestine wartime publishing house Editions de Minuit.
Written by Jean Bruller under the nom de plume Vercors during the German occupation of Paris in the Second World War, this collection comprises Guiding Star, Night and Fog, and The Verdun Press.
Loosely inserted are press cuttings as follows: London Times, 17th and 21st September 1968 dealing with Vercors, and, Daily Telegraph 22nd July 1991, obituary of Jean Bruller.
www.isbn.pl /A-VERCORS   (1059 words)

  
 Private Press Information in University of Missouri Special Collections
Les Éditions de Minuit is a publishing company founded by illustrator Jean Bruller and writer Pierre de Lescure during the German occupation of France in 1941.
The press was originally part of the underground media connected with the French resistance and was intended to foil German censorship.
Bruller and de Lescure, along with various printers, risked their lives in order to publish and distribute banned literature by French and American authors.
mulibraries.missouri.edu /specialcollections/privatepressefg.htm   (3849 words)

  
 TIME.com: Midnight Editions -- Sep. 25, 1944 -- Page 1
He was shy, thirtyish Jean Bruller, a onetime illustrator whose skittish prewar works included a book of cartoons entitled Twenty-One Delightful Ways of Committing Suicide.
In December 1941 Bruller and vivacious young Yvonne Paraf (who had connections with the underground) started their dangerous career as anti-Nazi publishers.
Two trusted girls on bicycles carried copies to noted French writers and critics; other copies were sent boldly through the mails or passed on to resistance groups for distribution.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,791686,00.html   (531 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Vercors Explains Art as Rebellion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Vercors, contemporary French author artist and critic explained yesterday his belief that the source of art is man's revolt against his fundamental ignorance and his attempt to create "a human universe, comprehensible for man and man alone."
The author of Le Silence de la mer, whose real name is Jean Bruller, spoke at M.I.T.'s Hayden Library on "he Esthetics of Revolt."
Because of the profusion of schools of art and the contradictory interpretations of critics, we have lost sight of the real meaning of art, Vercors said.
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 Pasquale Iannetti Art Gallery - Fernand Leger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Executed by Jean Bruller after a gouache by Leger.
Hand-signed in blue ballpoint pen at lower right and numbered "172/200" at lower left.
Stamped with Bruller's monogram "B." Printed by Jean Bruller; Distributed by Galerie International de la gravure, Paris.
www.pasqualeart.com /leger/leger50794.html   (49 words)

  
 Vassar History, 1961
They were later joined in the festivities by Gwendolyn L. Hamilton of the Music Department, Jean D. Fay, Curator of the Art Museum, and Martha M. Wyman, Head Resident of Main Building.
Thirteen Vassar students participated in the "Student Turn Towards Peace" demonstration in Washington D.C. The demands were to cease atmospheric testing, and to persuade the government to find alternatives to the arms race, and a call for disarmament.
The day began with a procession of "college trustees, faculty members, public officials, and representatives of the board of regents and state department of education." President of Radcliffe and a 1931 graduate of Vassar College Mary Ingraham Bunting spoke on the theme of "Cultural Evolution."
faculty.vassar.edu /daniels/1961.html   (2368 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: La bataille du silence: Books: Vercors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
Pour permettre aux écrivains français résistants de s'exprimer quand même à l'insu de l'ennemi allemand, après la défaite de 1940, Jean Bruller - dit Vercors - a créé en 1942, une maison d'édition clandestine: les éditions de Minuit dont il raconte ici l'histoire ainsi que celle du Paris occupé.
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 ALLO PARIS
Eugène montfort Lucie Prquerol Marc Stéphane André Salmon Dessin de Dignimont Lucien Boucher Jean Bruller Lallande
Ecrit : Jean Lorraine Fernand Fleuret Renaud de Jounevel André Salmon Dessin et illustrations de : Lucien Boucher Clark Fay Guy Arnaud Jean Bruller Mariette Lydis
Ecrit : Ramain Coolus Renaud de Jouvenel Louis Chéronnet Yves Gladine André Salmon Jean de Bosschère Dessin et illustrations de : Garreto Lucien Boucher Pierre Falké Jean Boddchère Jean Bruller
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 I Albright Lecture - Horace M. Albright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Man as a tool-maker is the subject of a book by an eminent authority: Oakley (1949).
The problem of what is "human" has been explored imaginatively in a novel by "Vercors" (jean Bruller, 1953) which turns on the discovery Of some living "ape-men" in a remote part of the world.
The reference to Leakey (1960) will provide an introduction to his ideas about Zinjanthropus; the volume on The Evolution of Man in which this paper occurs includes numerous other relevant discussions.
www.cnr.berkeley.edu /forestry/old_files/lectures/albright/1961albright.html   (8035 words)

  
 booksoutofprint
Jan 2: Philip Morin Freneau (1752; d.1832), American poet and political gazette editor (born NYC of French Huguenot family), the first poet to use themes from American nature, anticipating the English romantics; Wisconsin-born novelist and poet William Scott (1914); Oklahoma native, African American historian, biographer, and essayist John Hope Franklin (1915), whose 1947
In 1913, the Nicholsons bought Sissinghurst Castle and with Vita as plantsman and Harold as designer, they created a garden that is still one of the most important and well-known in the world.
[Jean Louis] Jack Kerouac, American beat writer (12 March 1922 - 21 October 1969)
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 References
Perry, John, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality, Hackett, Indianapolis, 1978.
Piaget, Jean, La causalité physique chez l'enfant [Paris, 1927].
Vercors (pseudonym for Jean Bruller), You Shall Know Them, trans.
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