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Profile of Robert Merle
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Robert Merle |
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28th August 1908 |
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Tebessa, Algeria |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Robert Merle (August 28, 1908 - March 28, 2004) was a French novelist.
Born in Tebessa in French occupied Algeria, he moved to France in 1918. Merle wrote in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote. He has also written a 12 book series of historical novels, Fortune de France. Recreating 16th and 17th century France through the eyes of a fictitious Protestant doctor turned spy, he went so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslatable.
His novels Un animal doué de la raison (1967), a savage satire on the Vietnam War, and Malevil (1972), a post-apocalyptic story, were both translated into English and filmed, the former as Day of the Dolphin. The film The Day of the Dolphin bore very little resemblance to Merle's story.
He died of a heart attack in his house near Paris.
Bibliography
- Week-end à Zuydcoote (1949)
- La mort est mon métier (1952)
- L'île (1962)
- Un animal doué de la raison (1967)
- Derrière la vitre (1970)
- Malevil (1972)
- Les hommes protégés (1974)
- Madrapour (1976)
- L'idole (1987)
- Le Soleil ne se lève pas pour nous (1987)
- Le propre de l'homme (1989)
Fortune de France series (1977-2003)
- Fortune de France
- En nos vertes années
- Paris ma bonne ville
- Le prince que voilÃ
- La violente amour
- La Pique du jour
- La volte des vertugadins
- L’Enfant-Roi
- Les Roses de la vie
- Le Lys et la Pourpre
- La Gloire et les Périls
- Complots et Cabales
- Le glaive et les amours
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