Pierre Benoit (novelist)
Pierre Benoit in 1932
Pierre Benoit (16 July 1886 - 3 March 1962) was a French novelist and member of the Académie française.[1]
Pierre Benoit, born in Albi (southern France) was the son of a French soldier. Benoit spent his early years and military service in Northern Africa, before becoming a civil servant.[2] His first novel, Koenigsmark, was published in 1918; L'Atlantide was published the next year and was awarded the Grand Prize of the Académie française.[2] Benoit became a member of the Académie in 1931.[2]
A political right-winger, Benoit was an admirer of the French fascist Charles Maurras.[2] During the Nazi Occupation of France, Benoît joined the "Groupe Collaboration", a pro-Nazi arts group whose other members included Abel Bonnard, Georges Claude and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle.[3] This led him to be arrested in September 1944; he was eventually released after six months, but his work remained on the "blacklist" of French Nazi collaborators for several years afterwards.[2]
Late in his life, Benoit gave a series of interviews with the French writer Paul Guimard.[2]
He died in March 1962 in Ciboure.
Bibliography
- Koenigsmark (1918)
- L'Atlantide (1919; transl. as Atlantida, 1920)
- La Chaussée des Géants (The Giant's Causeway) (1922)
- L'Oublié (The Forgotten Man) (1922)
- Mademoiselle de La Ferté (1923)
- La Châtelaine du Liban (fr) (Lebanon's Lady of the Manor) (1924)
- Le Puits de Jacob (Jacob's Well) (1925)
- Alberte (1926)
- Le Roi Lépreux (The Leper King) (2016)
- Axelle (1928)
- Le Soleil de Minuit (The Midnight Sun) (1930)
- Boissière (1935)
- La Dame de l'Ouest (1936)
- L'Homme qui était trop grand (The Man Who Was Too Tall) (1936)
- Les Compagnons d'Ulysse (1937)
- Bethsabée (1938)
- Les Environs d'Aden (1940)
- Lunegarde (Moonkeep) (1942)
- L'Oiseau des Ruines (Bird of the Ruins) (1947)
- Aïno (1948)
- Les Agriates (1950)
- La Sainte Vehme (The Holy Vehme) (1954), illustrated by Jean Dries
- Villeperdue (Lost City) (1954)
- Montsalvat (1999)
Filmography
- L'Atlantide, directed by Jacques Feyder (France, 1921, based on the novel Atlantida)
- Koenigsmark, directed by Léonce Perret (France, 1923, based on the novel Koenigsmark)
- Le Puits de Jacob, directed by Edward José (France, 1925, based on the novel Le Puits de Jacob)
- La Chaussée des géants, directed by Robert Boudrioz and Jean Durand (France, 1926, based on the novel La Chaussée des géants)
- The Midnight Sun, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki (1926, based on the novel Le Soleil de minuit)
- Le Soleil de minuit, directed by Richard Garrick and Jean Legrand (France, 1926, based on the novel Le Soleil de minuit)
- The Lady of Lebanon, directed by Marco de Gastyne (France, 1926, based on the novel La Châtelaine du Liban)
- Princesse Mandane, directed by Germaine Dulac (France, 1928, based on the novel L'Oublié)
- Surrender, directed by William K. Howard (1931, based on the novel Axelle)
- L'Atlantide, directed by G. W. Pabst (French-language version, 1932, based on the novel Atlantida)
- Die Herrin von Atlantis, directed by G. W. Pabst (German-language version, 1932, based on the novel Atlantida)
- The Mistress of Atlantis, directed by G. W. Pabst (English-language version, 1932, based on the novel Atlantida)
- The Lady of Lebanon, directed by Jean Epstein (France, 1934, based on the novel La Châtelaine du Liban)
- Koenigsmark, directed by Maurice Tourneur (France-UK, 1935, based on the novel Koenigsmark)
- Boissière, directed by Fernand Rivers (France, 1937, based on the novel Boissière)
- Angélica, directed by Jean Choux (France, 1939, based on the novel Les Compagnons d'Ulysse)
- Girl of the Golden West, directed by Carl Koch (Italy, 1942, based on the novel La Dame de l'Ouest)
- Le Soleil de minuit, directed by Bernard Roland (France, 1943, based on the novel Le Soleil de minuit)
- Lunegarde, directed by Marc Allégret (France, 1946, based on the novel Lunegarde)
- Dizziness, directed by Antonio Momplet (Mexico, 1946, based on the novel Alberte)
- Bethsabée, directed by Léonide Moguy (France, 1947, based on the novel Bethsabée)
- Siren of Atlantis, directed by Gregg G. Tallas (1949, based on the novel Atlantida)
- Mademoiselle de La Ferté, directed by Roger Dallier (France, 1949, based on the novel Mademoiselle de La Ferté)
- Koenigsmark, directed by Solange Térac (France, 1953, based on the novel Koenigsmark)
- C'est arrivé à Aden, directed by Michel Boisrond (France, 1956, based on the novel Les Environs d'Aden)
- The Lebanese Mission, directed by Richard Pottier (France, 1956, based on the novel La Châtelaine du Liban)
- Journey Beneath the Desert, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (Italy-France, 1961, based on the novel Atlantida)
- L'Atlantide, directed by Bob Swaim (France-Italy, 1992, based on the novel Atlantida)
Screenwriter
- 1925: La ronde de nuit (dir. Marcel Silver)
- 1934: Les Nuits moscovites (dir. Alexis Granowsky)
- 1935: Moscow Nights (dir. Anthony Asquith)
- 1936: Taras Bulba (dir. Alexis Granowsky)
- 1943: Colonel Chabert (dir. René Le Hénaff)
- 1943: Vautrin (dir. Pierre Billon)
References
- ↑ French Twentieth Bibliography: Critical and Bibliographical William J. Thompson - 2001... - Page 17210 "Maltère, Stéphane: "Le monde littéraire antique dans L'Atlantide de Pierre Benoit, " Cahiers des Amis de Poirre Boneit Frenchaises, no. 10 (1999), 21-30. [BNF] X1361. Monestier, Louis: "Histoire de l'association des 'Amis de Pierre Benoit'. Première partie ..."
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hugo Frey, "Afterword" to The Queen of Atlantis, Bison Books, ISBN 0803269161, (p.289-312)
- ↑ Karen Fiss, Grand Illusion: The Third Reich, the Paris Exposition, and the Cultural Seduction of France. University of Chicago Press, 2009 ISBN 0226252019, (p.201)
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