François Taillandier

François Taillandier (born in 1955, Clermont-Ferrand, France) is a French writer portraying the French contemporary society.

Life

Henri Vernes, creator of Bob Morane, fired a passion the 12-year-old Taillandier was not going to give up. In 1968 he began to read Honoré de Balzac. This classic French writer and Edmond Rostand, Cyrano's father, had a strong influence on him. Attending classical literature studies in the university, he graduated in 1977 with a memoir about the Marquis de Sade.

In 1979 he taught literature for 4 years before resigning from his position to become a full-time writer.

In 1984 he became journalist for the Revue Hebdo. Taillandier finds the inspiration walking in Paris, listening conversations while in the bistros. In 2006 he was appointed president of the Société des gens de lettres. Taillandier, divorcé, is the father of three.

Works

In 1990 he published Les Clandestins, rewarded by the Prix Jean-Freustié. In 1992 the novel Les Nuits Racine received the Roger Nimier Prize. In 1999 Anielka is published and received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.

In 2005 he published Option Paradis, the first novel in a series of a five-interlinked novels cycle, divided in fifty-five chapters (eleven chapters each novel) called La Grande Intrigue (The Big Plot), reviving a French classical literature tradition (La Comédie Humaine by Honoré de Balzac, Les Rougon-Macquart by Émile Zola). Following the evolution of five families through five generations, this work will be completed in 2010, celebrating the Taillandier's fifty-fifth anniversary. Telling, the second novel of this series was published in 2006.

Present days

He currently writes for French newspapers Le Figaro, l'Humanité[1] et la Montagne and keeps developing La Grande Intrigue, writing "only when everybody is sleeping".[2]

Bibliography

Novels
  • Personages de la rue du Couteau (Julliard, 1984)
  • Tott (Julliard, 1985)
  • Benoît ou les contemporains obscurs (Julliard, 1986)
  • Les clandestins (De Fallois, 1990)
  • Les Nuits Racine (De Fallois, 1992)
  • Mémoires de Monte-Cristo (De Fallois, 1994)
  • Des hommes qui s'éloignent (Fayard, 1997)
  • Anielka (Stock, 1999)
  • Journal de Marseille (Rocher, 1999)
  • N6, La route de l'Italie (Stock, 2000)
  • Le cas Gentile, (Stock, 2001)
  • Option paradis (Stock, 2005)
  • Telling (Stock, 2006)
  • Il n'y a personne dans les tombes (Stock, 2007)

Short stories
  • Intrigues (00h00 editions, 2001)

Essays
  • Aragon (Fayard, 1997)
  • Borges (François Bourin, 1993)
  • Les parents lâcheurs (Rocher, 2001)

Biography
  • Balzac (Gallimard, Folio)

Citations
  • Tout une part de la production romanesque contemporaine est rassurante. Ce sont des romans qui miment le roman. Ils trahissent une grande nostalgie pour le passé.[3]
gollark: … (!esowiki) WHY
gollark: Ah, ageist inequality …
gollark: Compile a language to Rust and then just use Rust Rust Rust ***RUST*** *praise rust* **Rust** **ruusususususususts** ***RUST*** *hail the overlord of languages* *rust*
gollark: *languages allowing correct, reliable programs are good
gollark: ```The loneliest is a.(Abs function)(returns the absolute value of 'a thought')Abs takes a thoughtIf a thought is greater than nothingGive back a thoughtElseGive back nothing without a thought(end Abs function)(Pow function)(returns 'all' raised to 'your base')Pow takes all and your baseIf your base is emptyGive back the loneliest (end if)If your base is less than nothingPut nothing without your base into your baseGive back the loneliest over Pow taking all, your base (end if)Put the loneliest into the onePut all into the magicWhile the one is smaller than your basePut all of the magic into the magicBuild the one up (end while)Give back the magic(end Pow function)(some constants for Sqrt function)The wing is strange.My song is knickknack. lumberjacksPut Pow taking my song, the wing into the dawnHalf is flummoxing. huzza(Sqrt function)(iterates until the estimate update is less than 'the dawn')Sqrt takes a mountainIf a mountain is nowhereGive back nothing (end if)Put a mountain into a molehillPut a molehill into the seaWhile Abs taking the sea is greater than the dawnPut a molehill into the seaPut Half of a molehill with Half of a mountain over a molehill into a molehillPut the sea without a molehill into the sea (end while)Give back a molehill(end Sqrt function)```A simple maths library.

References
  1. François Taillandier's chronicles in L'Humanité
  2. Taillandier's Interview in Lire
  3. Taillandier's interview in Chronicart Archived 2005-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
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