Roger Vailland Explained

Roger Vailland
Native Name Lang:French
Pseudonym:Georges Omer, Robert François, Etienne Merpin, Frédéric Roche
Birth Date:16 October 1907
Birth Place:Acy-en-Multien, Oise
Death Place:Meillonnas, Ain
Language:French
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Roger Vailland (16 October 1907 – 12 May 1965) was a French novelist, essayist, and screenwriter.

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 Meillonnas, 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.

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Novels

Travel

Journals

Theatre

Essays

References

  1. 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.
  2. Book: Schalk . David L. . The Spectrum of Political Engagement: Mounier, Benda, Nizan, Brasillach, Sartre . 2015 . Princeton University Press . 95–96.

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