Pierre Véry
Véry Pierre ( born November 17, 1900 in Bellon, Charente, † October 12th 1960 in Paris) was a French novelist and screenwriter. Among his most famous novels include Les Disparus de Saint- Agil, Goupi - Mains rouges and L' Assassinat du Père Noël, which were filmed with success for the movies. As an author of detective novels he has also written books youth.
- 3.2.1 novella collections
- 3.2.2 novels of the series Prosper Lepic
- 4.1 Writer
- 4.2 film adaptations of his works
Biography
Pierre Véry was born in 1900 on a farm in the municipality couret in Bellon near Aubeterre -sur -Dronne in the Charente. During the reading of Jules Verne and Thomas Mayne Reid, Erckmann - Chatrian and Onésime Reclus he lived the first twelve years of his life. The Charenter landscapes are the backdrop of Pont- égaré of Goupi - Mains rouges and form of Metamorphoses. The preference of the young Pierre for the fiction came from his mother. Even his earliest youth was filled with local legends, which are then delivered his novel material universe. The father, a pragmatic man, former Mayor of Condé- sur- Noireau, was a math teacher who eventually lost his job because of his political activities.
According to Condé- sur- Noireau et Angoulême, where he was a high school student, he was 1913 students in the boarding school of Sainte -Marie de Meaux, the year in which he lost his mother. At the same time he founded the secret society of Chiche - Capon, whose aim was to raise funds to go to America, and inspire the adult Véry to his novels Les Disparus de Saint- Agil and Les Anciens de Saint- Loup will. In 1915 he came back to his father, residing in Paris, 111 Rue Lauriston; this had become a cloth merchant.
Several professions later and after some cycling and broken world travel experiments with his friend Pierre Béarn opened Pierre Véry 1914, the Galerie du Phenix, a tender bookstore, located in the Rue Monsieur -le -Prince in Paris. Until 1932, the date on which he left the bookstore Pierre Béarn, he saw many writers come by, and in particular the ones in the Rue de l' Odéon regularly the Maison des amis du livre ( The House of bibliophiles ) or Shakespeare and Company visited: André Gide, Valery Larbaud, René Trintzius. He also tried his hand at literary journalism for the Journal litteraire and Paris- Journal, and continued to write for himself during this period he had dealing with Marcel Achard, Maurice Féaudierre, Georges Charensol, then, in the mid-1930s, Paul Gilson Nino Frank and Roger Regent.
He initiated his literary career by publishing short stories and wrote under the pseudonyms T. Tremeur and Simon Périgord short articles for various magazines. In 1929 he published his first novel Pont- égaré, who achieved a moderate success and finds himself in the selection of literary awards "Prix Renaudot " and " Prix Femina ". The following year he was awarded the first prize for adventure novels: the " Prix du Roman d' Aventures " Le Testament de Basil Crookes, one in the collection " Le Masque " published under the pseudonym Toussaint Juge crime novel, although a failure of the publisher in inside the plant the name Pierre Véry revealed. Given the positive public admission the author hesitated between the desire to once again become a "serious" author and decided to get involved in crime fiction, hoping to renew their shape. The following novels Danse à l' ombre (1931 ), Les Metamorphoses (1931 ), Le jeu de meneur (1933 ) and Clavier universel (1933 ) reveal his doubts. In 1934, he finally chose the detective novel and created the character of Prosper Lepicq who appeared in half a dozen investigations. From this point on, the own style of Véry which his narratives themselves as "Romans de mystères " ( " mystery novels " ) developed called. In fact, come in his works as in the scripts the miraculous and the fantastic in a very unique way in contact with the fear and adventure. This supported his trademark. 1938 saw the audience on a larger scale, thanks to the movie theaters, with the film adaptation of Les Disparus de Saint- Agil the novel Disparus de Saint- Agil, which was published three years earlier.
In the 1950s he lived in the Rue du Boccador in Paris, where he died of a heart attack in 1960. He regularly spent his holidays in Saint -Romain (Charente), where his father lived part of the year.
Progeny
From his marriage with Jeanne Pierre Véry Rouvin had three children: Madeline, and Dominique Noël. Noël Véry, known cameraman and initiator of the Steadicam in France, actively takes care of the memory of his father's work.
Work
Novels
Series Prosper Lepicq
- Meurtre Quai des Orfèvres (1934 )
- Monsieur Marcel's pompes funèbres (1934 )
- L' Assassinat du père Noël
- Le REGLO (1934 )
- Les Disparus de Saint- Agil (1935 )
- Le Gentleman of the antipodes (1936 )
- Le Thé des vieilles dames (1937 )
Series Goupi - Mains rouges
- Goupi - Mains rouges (1937 )
- Goupi - Mains rouges à Paris ( 1948)
Other crime novels
- Le Testament de Basil Crookes (1930 )
- Le Baron Gaude, détective (1933 )
- Clavier universel (1933 )
- Le jeu de meneur (1934 )
- Les Quatre Vipères (1934 )
- Les Trois Claude ( 1936)
- Mam'zelle Bécot (1937 )
- Monsieur est mort Malbrough (1937 )
- L'Inspecteur Max ( 1937)
- Série de sept (1938 )
- Madame et le mort (1940 )
- Mort depuis 100 000 ans ( 1941)
- L' assassin a peur la nuit ( 1942)
- L' Inconnue du terrain vague (1943 )
- Histoire de brigands (1943 )
- Les Anciens de Saint- Loup (1944 )
- Léonard ou les Délices du bouquiniste (1946 )
- Le Costume of dimanches (1948 )
- La Route de Zanzibar (1949 )
- Un grand patron ( 1951)
- Le guérisseur (1954 )
Other novels
- Pont- égaré (1929 )
- Danse à l' ombre (1931 )
- Les Metamorphoses (1931 )
- Le Pays sans étoiles (1945 ), fantastic story
- Au royaume des feignants (1946 ), science fiction
- La Révolte des Pères Noël (1959 ), political fiction
Short Stories
Collections of short stories
- Les Veillées de la Tour Pointue (1937 )
- Cinéma, cyanure, et compagnie (1954 )
- Tout doit le 5 mai disparaître (1961 ), posthumous science fiction short story collection
Novels of the series Prosper Lepic
- Police technique ( 1935)
- Prenez garde aux ballons rouges (1939 )
- La Dame des musées (1939 )
Children 's and Youth Literature
- Signé: Alouette (1960 )
- Les Héritiers d' Avril (1960 )
Other Publications
- Lettre d' excuses à un assassin de romans policiers (2005)