biography
pronunciation:
[dütoor]
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| lived:
| (1920– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and polemicist, born in France. A member of the resistance, he took part in the Liberation of Paris. He started to paint, then turned to writing with Le Complexe de César (1946), a treatise on seduction Le Petit Don Juan, and a novel Une Tête de chien (1950). In Britian he was attached to the BBC French service (1947–50). Les Mémoires de Mary Watson (1980), a pseudo-autobiography of the life of Mary Watson, companion to Sherlock Holmes, showed his mastery of English humour. He won the Prix Interallié in 1952 with Au Bon beurre, scenes of Paris under the Occupation. Les Taxis de la Marne is a satirical tract about June 1940, a style also found in his essays and columns, notably Le Paradoxe du Critique (1972), De la France considérée comme une maladie, and La Gauche la plus bête du monde (1985), the year in which he collaborated with Jean Edern Hallier to publish Le Mauvais esprit. |
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