The Law (French : La Loi) is a 1957 novel by French author Roger Vailland.
It won the 1957 Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize. [1]
The novel concerns the social structure of a small village in south Italy in the 1950s. [2]
René Daumal was a French spiritual para-surrealist writer, critic and poet, best known for his posthumously published novel Mount Analogue (1952) as well as for being an early, outspoken practitioner of pataphysics.
Roger Vailland was a French novelist, essayist, and screenwriter.
Les Mauvais Coups is a 1961 French psychological drama under the direction of François Leterrier. It tells the story of the tragic demise of a 10-year marriage. The austere screenplay is based on a Roger Vailland novel.
Playing with Fire may refer to:
Roger Gilbert-Lecomte was a French avant-garde poet and co-founder of the artistic group and magazine Le Grand Jeu. The group, associated with surrealists, was "excommunicated" from the movement by André Breton. Gilbert-Lecomte used drugs, in particular morphine, for both artistic and sociological reasons. As was predicted in his poetry, his death was the result of an infection caused by the use of dirty hypodermic needles. "Coma Crossing: Collected Poems", Schism Books, 2019, is the most comprehensive bilingual anthology of his poetry and "Theory of the Great Game" gives a hefty selection of his prose, along with that of René Daumal and other members of "Le Grand Jeu."
The Law may refer to:
La Loi may refer to:
Events from the year 1907 in France.
The Trout is a 1982 French drama film directed by Joseph Losey based on the novel by Roger Vailland and starring Isabelle Huppert. This was the last film that Losey directed to be released in his lifetime, as he died two years after its release.
François Leterrier was a French film director and actor. He entered the film industry when he was cast in Robert Bresson's film A Man Escaped. After this he went on to become a director himself.
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education is a 1989 semi-autobiographical novel by Sybille Bedford. It shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year. In many ways a follow-up to her earlier work, A Legacy, it is the story of a girl called Billi as she grows up and experiences sexual, intellectual and emotional awakenings. When Billi's father dies, she leaves behind her childhood in Germany for life with her morphine-addicted mother on the French Riviera.
Jacques Krier was a French television film producer and director. A communist, he directed many mini-series of television documentaries about the living conditions of French workers, including janitors, as well as Arabs in French Algeria and immigrants from Mali. He also directed films for television and documentaries for the General Confederation of Labour, a labor union. He was the author of several novels and the winner of the 2000 Prix Roger Vailland.
René Ballet was a French journalist, novelist and essayist. A communist, he was an international correspondent for L’Humanité. He was the author of 14 novels and 35 essays, many of which were about Roger Vailland.
Le Temps des cerises is a French publishing house founded in 1993 by 33 writers.
Yves Courrière, real name Gérard Bon was a French writer, biographer and journalist.
Michel Picard is a French professor, writer and literary critic.
François Bott was a French author who after a long career as a journalist and literary critic became a writer of novels, one of which, Une minute d’absence (2001), won the Académie Française's Prix de la Nouvelle. He continued as a literary critic, writing essays focused on other writers, especially Roger Vailland.
Drôle de jeu is a prize winning 1945 French novel by Roger Vailland first published by Éditions Corrêa. The work explores the ironies of the French Resistance.
Amir Nouri is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for ES Sétif.
Pierre Courtade was a French writer and journalist.