Guillaume Dustan
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Guillaume Dustan born William Baranès, was an openly
gay
French
writer and journalist.
and worked as a legal judge before turning to writing. He used the nom de plume Guillaume Dustan from 1995 onwards. His first novel, Dans ma chambre, brought him fame. His work has been compared to Renaud Camus
, Marguerite Duras
, Herve Guibert
, Celine
's Journey to the End of the Night
, Eugene O'Neill
's Long Day's Journey into Night
, and Bret Easton Ellis
.
He also edited Le Rayon Gay, a collection of books, for Balland.
He was short film producer. Some of his films include Nous and Back.
He acted in the 2005 film PROCESS written & directed by CS Leigh playing the employee who checks Beatrice Dalle
in to the hotel where she will take her own life. The film also stars Guillaume Depardieu.
He was a proponent of barebacking
and at loggerheads with Act Up.
Baranès died of an accidental drug overdose on October 3, 2005.
Coming out
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gay
Gay
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French
French people
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writer and journalist.
Biography
William Baranès was born in 1965. He graduated from the École nationale d'administrationÉcole nationale d'administration
The École Nationale d'Administration , one of the most prestigious of French graduate schools , was created in 1945 by Charles de Gaulle to democratise access to the senior civil service. It is now entrusted with the selection and initial training of senior French officials...
and worked as a legal judge before turning to writing. He used the nom de plume Guillaume Dustan from 1995 onwards. His first novel, Dans ma chambre, brought him fame. His work has been compared to Renaud Camus
Renaud Camus
-Biography:He was born in 1946 in Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France. He spent some time studying in England and traveling in the United States, particularly New York and California...
, Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director.-Background:...
, Herve Guibert
Hervé Guibert
Hervé Guibert was a homosexual French writer and photographer. The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies, he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to AIDS...
, Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . Céline was chosen after his grandmother's first name. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and...
's Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of Night is the first novel of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. This semi-autobiographical work describes antihero Ferdinand Bardamu....
, Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...
's Long Day's Journey into Night
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Long Day's Journey Into Night is a 1956 drama in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play is widely considered to be his masterwork...
, and Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis is an American novelist and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 different languages. He was regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney...
.
He also edited Le Rayon Gay, a collection of books, for Balland.
He was short film producer. Some of his films include Nous and Back.
He acted in the 2005 film PROCESS written & directed by CS Leigh playing the employee who checks Beatrice Dalle
in to the hotel where she will take her own life. The film also stars Guillaume Depardieu.
He was a proponent of barebacking
Barebacking
Bareback is a slang term to describe acts of sexual penetration without the use of a condom.The term comes from the equestrian term bareback, which refers to the practice of riding a horse without a saddle...
and at loggerheads with Act Up.
Baranès died of an accidental drug overdose on October 3, 2005.
Further reading
- Lagabriell, Renaud, '»Je vis dans un monde où plein de choses que je pensais impossibles sont possibles«: »Queere Bedeutungen« in Dans ma chambre von Guillaume Dustan,' in Anna Babka und Susanne Hochreiter (Hg.), Queer Reading in den Philologien: Modelle und Anwendungen (Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009), 221-236.