Paul-Louis Rossi
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Life
His grandparents Queffelec spoke BretonBreton language
Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France. Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as...
and Cornish
Cornish language
Cornish is a Brythonic Celtic language and a recognised minority language of the United Kingdom. Along with Welsh and Breton, it is directly descended from the ancient British language spoken throughout much of Britain before the English language came to dominate...
. My father was Italian, of the Venice area. He was be shot by the Germans in 1943 in Tübingen
Tübingen
Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, on a ridge between the Neckar and Ammer rivers.-Geography:...
, when Rossi was a dozen years old.
Hr published a booklet entitled Liturgy for the night in 1958, during the Algerian War. Hecame to work early to Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
; he wanted to become a journalist. He wrote music reviews: in Jazz Magazine and in the Cahiers du jazz, and film criticism: "The Arbitrary", dedicated to Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson
-Life and career:Bresson was born at Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme, the son of Marie-Élisabeth and Léon Bresson. Little is known of his early life and the year of his birth, 1901 or 1907, varies depending on the source. He was educated at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, close to Paris, and...
, published in Camera Pen. He collaborated with French Letters
French Letters
Les Lettres Françaises is a French literary publication, founded in 1941 by writers Jacques Decour and Jean Paulhan. Originally a clandestine magazine of the French Resistance in German-occupied territory, it was one of the many publications of the National Front resistance movement...
and the journal Change, directed by Jean-Pierre Faye
Jean-Pierre Faye
Jean-Pierre Faye is a French philosopher and writer of fiction and prose poetry.-Biography:Faye was a founding member of the avant-garde literary review Tel Quel, and later of Change. He received the Prix Renaudot for his 1964 novel L'Écluse...
. In the 1970s he made, with Jacques Roubaud
Jacques Roubaud
Jacques Roubaud is a French poet and mathematician.Jacques Roubaud is a professor of poetry at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and he was a professor of Mathematics at University of Paris X...
, Lionel Ray
Lionel Ray
Lionel Ray, , is a French poet, and essayist.-Biography:Born of a Breton father and a Walloon mother, he spent his childhood in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie. He published several collections under his real name, Robert Lorho, Associate of French language and literature professor at the Lycee...
, and Pierre Lartigue, exercises on the world Oulipo: The Inimaginaires. His travel book of St. Ursula was published by Gallimard in 1973.
He lives in Paris.
Works
- Elévation de l'enclume (1997)
- Escalation of the anvil (1997)
- La Voyageuse immortelle (2001)
- Le Voyage de Sainte-Ursule (Gallimard, 1973)
- La Traversée du Rhin (Hachette POL, 1981)
- Crossing the Rhine (POL Hachette, 1981)
- Régine (Julliard, 1990)
- Cose Naturali (Éd. Unes, 1991)
- La Montagne de Kaolin (Julliard, 1992)
- Le Fauteuil rouge (Julliard, 1994)
- Le Vieil homme et la nuit (Julliard, 1997)
- André Lambotte (ARTGO, Bruxelles, 1997)
- La vie secrète de Fra Angelico (Bayard, 1997)
- Cose Naturali (Éd. Ergo Pers Gent, 1997)
- Fuscelli (Éd. Tandem, Belgique, 2000)