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Fallet René
(1927—1983)
Rene Fallet was a French writer and Scénariste.
Rene Fallet was born on December 4th, 1927 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, with origins of the Bourbonnais.
Wire of railwayman (Paul Fallet), it rather early leaves the way of the school, but however obtains its certificate of studies in 1940, and starts to work in Paris as of the 15 years age.
Between gray suburbs, daily railway, the life does not seem to offer its more beautiful prospects to him. Of warehouseman in an editor, with dispach rider in pharmacy, while passing through apprentice tun maker, Rene Fallet alternates these “odd jobs” which will mark sometimes the inspiration of the writer.
In 1944, whereas it has less than 17 years, the war finds Rene Fallet, or it is rather him which voluntarily finds it while engaging… Little known fact, the father of Rene Fallet, is imprisoned during the war to have sung International the in the streets of Villeneuve. Rene writes itself with the marshal Pétain to obtain his release. He obtains it and it is a decisive step in its awakening of the capacity of the words.
Whereas it is demobilized in 1945, Blaise Cendrars reference mark his first poems and the fact of entering to Libération … (cf letter of Blaise Cendrars). Since 1946, it publishes its first collection of poetries, the Periscope , drawn with only 50 specimens. But as of the following year, “the bed of roses runs on him” to take again its own words, since its first novel South-eastern Banlieue is the event of the literary re-entry (critical exhaustive of the Figaro).
The years which follow, Rene Fallet devotes them to the writing, criticism, and also to the voyages. Indeed, it enters to the Canard connected in 1952, visit London this same year, and travels to the Lebanon in 1953, year of its meeting with Georges Brassens… it Marie meanwhile with Michelle Dubois, become Agathe Fallet in 1956. These first years are already those of success, since the writer received the Prix of the populist novel for his the first three novels ( South-eastern Banlieue , the Fleur and the mouse , Pigalle ) in 1950…
It is often described as a rather slow writer (it publishes a book all the 2 to 3 years), Rene Fallet ensures his “self-sufficiency” until 1964, date of the publication of Paris in August, novel which brings back the Interallied Prix to him and definitively anchors Rene Fallet in the French literary landscape. It devotes the remainder of its life to the literature of course, but also with fishing, the Pétanque and cycling (it follows many races…). It will receive during its career of many prices, arts persons or not, one will quote inter alia the price of humor in 1970 for With the beautiful shore , it is made citizen of honor of the towns of Villeneuve Saint Georges and Jaligny, knight of the agricultural Mérite in 1965… Man in the middle perhaps not so light that, this last will release in 1983… Rene Fallet dies at 56 years, one July 25th…
As of its first work, that moves: I am the type which has the love. Of only one word I give it, from only one gesture I tear off it. The girl of the subway, I say to him: " Like to me " , and hung here to my jacket, pantelante, dribbling and all and all. It sweeps of a breath the conformism of the Régime of Vichy, lance of the new winds, by a sharp, threatening but merry feather. The critics of the moment are not mistaken there ( Here is a suburban train which would smash the stops of conformism rather. An insane train which one will have of the evil to direct on a siding. ), the Fallet train left, it will not stop more… It Grandson of peasants bourbonnais. Wire of railwayman. At summer journalist. Is writer. Man with a moustache like it describes itself, cannot be summarized at this populist side, labels that one sticks to him, not wrongly, but O how much restrictive. The author, enthusiastic reader of Arthur Rimbaud, Molière, Emile Zola, Guy of Maupassant, Marcel Aymé, enter others, alternate and mixes social satires, Rabelaisien laughter, but also poetry and keys sentimental… It is indeed necessary to perceive in Rene Fallet, an emblematic figure, ambiguous and dual.
The most current idea of the Rene Fallet remover and good friend, should not summarize all its work. Admittedly, the writer irritates the small middle-class practices of the time, draws his feather of the characters high colors, pillars of bars, eternal fixed on the counter to rewrite a Utopia written with the good red of the country. But these town or country antis-heroes, present inter alia in Soup at the cabbages , the new beaujolais wine arrived or the old men of the old woman , should not make forget the tormented and poetic face of the author. Itself was said irrigated by two veins, the Beaujolais vein, and Whiskey, the first veins it obviously indicating the side “popu” of its work, the second its sentimental side… The love is indeed always present in the work of Rene Fallet, fuel essential with the creative engine of the poet… Coloured, enjoué, dancing, the Falletien love hides in fact all contradictions of a covered character of paradoxes, testifies its tumultuous life with Agathe to it. Fallet goes to the love as a minor goes to coal. It is not a dilettante. , of him Jean Carmet said, to describe this in love naive, timid, bending under the errors of course in love… Through his work, the poet will never hide the passion side of the love, the physical attraction related to this one. However, it always knew to handle its feather so as to never not sink in the bad taste, proportioning feelings and impulses in love carefully…
Let us note that beyond its novels, Fallet with writing six collections of poetry and four tests, in particular one on the life of Georges Brassens, friend who was very close for him…
Rene Fallet thus seems a high character colors, with the multiple facets. To carry out a second analysis of Claude Chanaud, one can perceive Fallet like a Russian headstock… The frontage connects would be the cleaner of the great feelings, would follow in love stiff one (Of Paris in August), then the popular cantor of suburbs, and under all that, poetry, art of which it uses in each page with much personality. Thus, this character with the words hung goods, the bad temper of the mornings of the great evening, disappointed human condition without however never not losing the laughter, hides aspects goods more complex than his populist side. Single in his kind, Rene Fallet made his all alone market, with the conk, to take again last Chanaud once… He marked the French literary landscape of the last half of the 20th century, of a single and refreshing print. Far from the great ceremonies and Parisian gratin, it forms whole part of the universe of Brassens, Renaud and of all those which will be able to follow…
If the adaptations to the cinema of the universe of Rene Fallet were not always really of successes, in all the case in the posterity, these attempts do not have to however be reduced with nothing.
Last nine books of Fallet were adapted, whose Paris in August celebrates it, where Plantin, main character was interpreted by Charles Aznavour… If the charm of the writing could not found its equal to the cinema, it remains interesting to re-examine certain adaptations, for the dialogs of Audiard, or the play of Pierre Brasseur and Jean Gabin… His novels thus inspired by many films, among which: the Tri-car with Darry Cowl, the lost Steps , the Old men of the old woman , Paris in August, It was a small ship under the title: the black flag floats on the pot, the new beaujolais wine arrived and most known: Soup with the cabbages with Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet and Jacques Villeret.
Guinea, 2008, Golden bear winners
