Jean Queval

Jean Queval , writer, journalist, critic film, is also one of the founding members of the Oulipo.

Fanatic of football as of his more young age, it started as of 20 years a career of sports correspondent, before becoming critic film for various newspapers, of Clartés with the French Screen . He ensured thus a long time the cinematographic chronicle of the Mercure de France (of 1947 to 1962), collaborated in the Encyclopedia of the Pleiad and wrote serials for television ( the Beautiful eyes of Agatha , 1964; the Trunk of Hamburg , 1972). He is the author of monographs, of which those of Marcel Carné and Jacques Becker. Large translator (of James Old, Iris Murdoch, George Orwell, John Cowper Powys, Bertrand Russell, W.P. Thackeray…), Jean Queval was also a discrete writer and secrecy which published nevertheless an autobiographical account, Everyone descends (1959) and a novel, etc (1963).

Works

; In the Library Oulipienne
  • ; : ! ? !?! () '', BO n° 24,1984.
  • Insect contemplating the prehistory followed by Six other interpretations quite as enthralling , BO n° 31,1985.

; Publications

  • Of England , Gallimard, 1956.
  • Everyone descends , Mercure de France, 1959, rééd. Full Song, 1988.
  • etc, Romance , Gallimard, 1963.
  • Localities , Mercure de France, 1963.
  • Max-pol. Fouchet, study , New edition, Paris, Seghers, 1969.
  • All in all , Paris, Gallimard, 1970; rééd. 1971.
  • Queneau, speech and dream , New French Review, February 1971.
  • Henri Storck or the Crossing of the cinema , Brussels, national Festival of Belgian film, 1976.
  • Raymond Queneau: portrait of a poet , iconography gathered and captioned by Andre Blavier, Paris, Veyrier, 1984.
  • Raymond Queneau, test , 3rd edition, Paris, Seghers, 1971.
  • All is well which finishes better, illustrations of Gilles Vuillemard, Paris, Bordas, 1984.
  • Écrits to measure , the Oulipienne Library, n° 32,1985.
  • Fablier , joinings of Gilles Chapacou, Châteauneuf-on-Charente, Plein song, 1985.
  • Nestor and Agamemnon , foreword of Henry Thomas, foreword of Murdoch Iris, Paris, Messidor, 1986.
  • Zinzin ; followed by a Life of cat , Paris, Messidor it Farandole, 1987.
  • Everyone descends , Paris, Mercure de France, rééd., Bassac, Plein Song, 1988.

External bond

page of Jean Queval on the official site of Oulipo

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