Biographie philippe claudel le rapport de brodeck
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Philippe Claudel
French writer and film director
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Philippe Claudel in 2013 | |
| Born | (1962-02-02) 2 February 1962 (age 63) Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, Film director, Writer |
| Years active | 1999–present |
Philippe Claudel (born 2 February 1962) is a French writer and film director.[1]
Claudel was born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, Meurthe-et-Moselle. In addition to his writing, Claudel is a professor of literature at the University of Nancy.[2]
He directed the 2008 film I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime).[3] Much admired, it won the 2009 BAFTA for the best film not in English.[4]
Life
[edit]After studying in Nancy, he remained there and for eleven years worked as a teacher in prisons. Contact with his students inspired short stories, novels, and then screenplays. He has said that the experience made him give up his simple op
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When a stranger with unusual manners is murdered for his unflattering and insightful illustrations, a government report writer and concentration camp survivor writes an official, whitewashed account of the incident while secretly penning the truth in a parallel narrative.Tags
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These are some of the questions explored in Philippe Claudel’s book, Brodeck’s Report. In a fairy tale village in the woods, a stranger has been murdered. Brodeck, a man recently returned from the camps, is asked to represent the village and write an official report of what occurred. At the same time, Brodeck writes a secret report, in his own voice, about what he learns and about his own life and the decisions he
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Brodeck's Report
2007 novel by Philippe Claudel
| Author | Philippe Claudel |
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| Original title | Le Rapport de Brodeck |
| Translator | John Cullen |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Stock |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 2010 |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 9782234057739 |
Brodeck's Report (French: Le Rapport de Brodeck) is a 2007 novel bygd the French writer Philippe Claudel. The narrative investigates the murder of a mysterious man in an indefinite country just after the war. The book won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.[1] The location and the time are never explicit in the novel. However the parallel with World War II fryst vatten obvious.
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[edit]Helen Brown of The Daily Telegraph called the novel "deeply wise and classically beautiful". Brown wrote: "Brodeck's Report won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in the original French and John Cullen's English transla