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Jean-Louis Curtis (22 May 1917 – 11 November 1995),〔(Curtis, Jean-Louis ). (2009). In ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', Retrieved March 20, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online〕 pseudonym of Louis Laffitte, was a French novelist best known for his second novel ''The Forests of the Night'' (French: ''Les Forêts de la nuit''),〔 which won France's highest literary award the Prix Goncourt in 1947. He is the author of over 30 novels.〔 Curtis was born in Orthez, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.〔 He was one of the founders of the literary monthly ''La Table Ronde'' in 1948. He was elected to the Académie française in 1986.〔(Obituary ), ''The New York Times'', November 12, 1995〕 Martin Seymour-Smith said of Curtis in the early 1980s: :He is one of the best of the 'conventional' novelists now writing in France, but is very uneven: he is not worried about originality of technique, and prefers to concentrate on what he can do well, which is to anatomize bourgeois societies and 'artistic' communities.〔 The author Michel Houellebecq made a homage to him in a long passage in ''La carte et le territoire'' (prix Goncourt 2010). ==Works== *''Les Jeunes hommes'' (1946) - first novel. *''Les Forets de la nuit'' (1947; ''The Forests of the Night'') - "acid portraits of those who played at being members of the Resistance"〔Quote by James Kirkup in (Obituary ) in ''The Independent'' 14 Nov 1995.〕 Winner of the Prix Goncourt 1947. *''Gibier de Potence'' (1949; ''Lucifer's Dream'') -"an acid picture of postwar Paris".〔Martin Seymour-Smith, ''The New Guide to Modern World Literature'', 1985. pg. 498〕 *''Haute École'' (1950) *''Chers corbeaux'' (1951) - "targets the Parisian bourgeoisie who had done well out of the Nazi occupation"〔 *''Les Justes Causes'' (1954; ''The Side of the Angels'') about the liberation of Paris. *''L'Échelle de soie'' (1956) *''Un Saint au néon'' (1956) *''La Parade'' (1960) "a devastating satire on rich old provincial upper-class drones".〔 *''Cygne sauvage'' (1962) *''La Quarantaine'' (1966) *''Le Jeune couple'' (1967) "dealt with the splendours *''Le Thé sous les cyprès'' (1969) *''Un miroir le long du chemin'' (1969) *''Le Roseau pensant'' (1971) *''La Chine m'inquiète'' (1972) *''Questions à la littérature'' (1973) *''L'Étage noble'' (1976) *''L'Horizon dérobé'' (1978) *''La Moitié du chemin'' (1980) - Volume 2 of ''L'Horizon dérobé'' *''Le Battement de mon cœur'' (1981) - Volume 3 of ''L'Horizon dérobé' *''Le Mauvais choix'' (1984) "attacked Christian bigotry. It is his only historical novel, set in the third century AD."〔 *''Le Temple de l'amour'' (1990) *''La France m'épuise'' (1992) *''Le monde comme il va'' (1995) *''Andromède'' (1996) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean-Louis Curtis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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