Eduardo Manet

Eduardo Manet ( born June 19, 1930 in Santiago de Cuba, by his own admission, March 19, 1927 in Havana, according to official registration) is a French- Cuban writer.

Life

Manet wrote the late 1940s, film, theater and music reviews, and published in 1947 his first book of poems. As a student at the University of Havana, he worked at various theaters, his first play was produced in 1948.

In 1951 he went to Paris, where he singing, dancing and pantomime studied for three years at the École Pédagogique. He also wrote for a Cuban magazine article on the French theater. He moved then to Italy and studied at the University of Perugia to study as a teacher of Italian language and literature. During this time the amendment spiral originated in French.

In 1956 he came back to France and joined the theater troupe led by Jacques Lecoq. It originated plays and another novella. In 1960, he returned at the invitation of Fidel and Raúl Castro, whom he knew from his student days, to Cuba.

Here he was Director General of the Conjunto Nacional Dramático on Cuban National Theater and made the first refracting Chechen theater concept, later, the concept of " poor theater " by Eugenio Barba and Jerzy Grotowski in Cuba known.

From 1964 he worked as a director at the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos ( ICAIC ) and issued its magazine Cine Cubano. With Un Cri sur le Rivage he wrote the first novel about the Cuban Revolution.

After the Prague Spring, he left Cuba and settled in Paris. He established a workshop for film and theater and directed from 1973 to 1979 with his wife Véronique Petit improvisation group Groupe d' expression libre.

In 1979 he became a French citizen. He was active in the intellectual opposition led to the Castro regime in 1991 and the founding president of Cuba démocratique. In 1997 he was awarded the Chevalier dans l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and was made an honorary member of the Canadian Académie des Lettres du Québec.

Works

Biography

  • Mes années Cuba. Grasset, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-246-62781-8 ( autobiography)

Novels

  • Les Étrangers dans la ville. Julliard, Paris 1960
  • Un cri sur le rivage. Julliard, Paris 1963
  • La Mauresque. Gallimard, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-07-020804-4
  • Zone interdite. Gallimard, Paris 1984, ISBN 2-07-070215-4
  • L' Île du lézard vert Flammarion, Paris, 1992, ISBN 2-02-020504-1
  • Habanera. Flammarion, Paris, 1994, ISBN 2-08-066902-8
  • Rhapsody cubaine. Grasset, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-246-53361-9
  • D' amour et d' exil. Grasset, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-246-55211-7
  • La Sagesse du sing. Grasset, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-246-57421-8
  • Maestro! Laffont, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-221-09202-3
  • Ma vie de Jésus. Grasset, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-246-57431-5
  • La Conquistadora. Laffont, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-221-09872-2
  • Un Français au cœur dans l' ouragan cubain. Fayard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-213-62797-5

Dramas

  • Les Nonnes. En deux actes Parabole. German: The nuns. Fischer Theater Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1971
  • Eux ou la prize du pouvoir. Gallimard, Paris 1971
  • Le jour où Mary Shelley rencontra Charlotte Brontë. L'Avant- Scène, Paris 1971
  • Holocaustum ou le borgne. Gallimard, Paris 1972
  • L' autre Don Juan. Gallimard, Paris 1973
  • Madras, la nuit où ... Gallimard, Paris 1975
  • Lady rhinestones. Pièce en trois volets. L'Avant- Scène, Paris 1977
  • Un balcon sur les Andes, Mendoza Argentine s ... Ma'déa (along with Michele Armand Barthelemy and Fatima Soualhia ). Gallimard, Paris, 1985, ISBN 2-07-070526-9
  • Histoire de le boucher Maheu. Édition paper, Paris, 1986, ISBN 2-86943-069-8
  • Les chiennes. Ouvert Théâtre, Paris, 1987, ISBN 2-904742-16-6
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