- Jean Pélégri
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name = Jean Pélégri
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birth_date = birth date|1920|6|20|mf=y
birth_place = Rovigo,French Algeria
death_date = death date and age|2003|9|24|1920|6|20|mf=y
death_place = Paris,France
occupation =Author ,Professor
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June 20 1920 –September 24 2003 ) was a writer and professor of literature. Of French descent, he was born in Algeria, but left as part of the diaspora of French colonists referred to aspied-noirs following theAlgerian War .He was friends with many Algerian writers (such as
Mohammed Dib andKateb Yacine ) and, likeJean Sénac , Pélégri considered himself to be one of them; he always saw himself as an "Algerian at heart". He supplemented his novels' prefaces with artwork from his painter friendsBaya ,Abdallah Benanteur ,Mohammed Khadda andJean de Maisonseul . Pélégri also assisted on the film adaptation of his novel "Les Oliviers de la justice" as screenwriter, dialogue writer and actor. The movie won the Cinema and Television Writers Award at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.Reviews
"Jean Pélégri, Algerian by birth and one of the great writers of our time, greater than
Albert Camus in any case, remains unknown in France. Why? Because he tried so hard to mark his terrority as an Algerian that he created a different kind of French language just for his own use. And for that, French readers rejected him.":Mohammed Dib, "Simorgh", Albin Michel, Paris, 2003 [his last book] ."No French writer from Algeria, the '
pied-noir s' as we ignorantly call them, with the possible exception of the poetJean Sénac , accepted Algeria completely for what she is and for what she has always been the way that he did. No one so naturally felt like a son of Algeria in all her forms: Arab, Berber, Spanish, French ... as Jean Pélégri did, notGabriel Audisio , notEmmanuel Roblès , notJules Roy , nor Albert Camus. From his novel "Oliviers de la justice" to "Maboul", Pélégri sings a veritable 'cante jondo ' of rural Algeria in all of its baroque complexity. With Kateb Yacine's "Nedjma", "Le Maboul" is the only Faulknerian novel of our literature.":Jean Daniel , "Pélégri l'Algérien",Le Nouvel Observateur ,Paris , 2-8 octobre 2003.Novels and Plays
*"L'Embarquement du lundi", Gallimard,
Paris , 1952.
*"Les Oliviers de la justice", Gallimard,Paris , 1959. Grand Prix catholique de littérature 1960
*"Le Maboul", Gallimard,Paris , 1963.
*"L'Homme-caillou", Abdallah Benanteur,Paris , 1965.
*"Les Monuments du déluge", Christian Bourgois,Paris , 1967.
*"Slimane" (pièce en quatre actes), Christian Bourgois,Paris , 1968.
*"L'Homme mangé par la ville" (dramatique), France-Culture, 1970.
*"Le Cheval dans la ville", Gallimard,Paris , 1972.
*"Le Maître du Tambour" (pièce), ThéâtreJean Vilar ,Suresnes , 1974.
*"Ma mère, l'Algérie", Laphomic,Alger , 1989; Actes Sud, 1990 (ISBN 286869554X).
*"Les Etés perdus", Le Seuil,Paris , 1999 (ISBN 2020367580).About Jean Pélégri
*"Jean Pélégri", dans Algérie Littérature/Action n° 29, Editions Marsa,
Paris , mars 1999.
*Dominique Le Boucher, "Jean Pélégri l'Algérien ou Le scribe du caillou", avec des textes inédits de Jean Pélégri, deux volumes, Algérie Littérature/Action n°37-38, Editions Marsa,Paris , 2000 (ISBN 2913868118).
*Dominique Le Boucher, " _fr. Les deux Jean; Jean Sénac, l'homme soleil, Jean Pélégri, l'homme caillou" ({correspondence 1962-1973, poèmes inédits), Montpellier, Chèvre-feuille étoilée, et Alger, Barzakh, 2002 (ISBN 2914467052).
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