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Benoît Duteurtre

January 01, 1970

Benoît Duteurtre (French: [dytœʁtʁ]) (born 20 March 1960) is a French novelist and essayist. He is also a musical critic, musician, producer and host of a radio show about music. He spends his time between Paris, New York and Normandy.

Benoît Duteurtre
Benoît Duteurtre in 2015.
Born (1960-03-20) 20 March 1960 (age 64)
Sainte-Adresse, Seine-Maritime, Normandy
Occupation
  • Writer
  • novelist
  • critic
  • musician
  • producer
  • host
Period1985–present

Early life and family edit

Benoît Duteurtre was born in Sainte-Adresse, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, where he spent his first years. He is the son of Jean-Claude Duteurtre and Marie-Claire Georges. He is also the great-grandson of the French president René Coty. He attended Saint-Joseph, a catholic educational institution in le Havre. Duteurtre began to write at an early age. At fifteen, he presented his firsts texts to Armand Salacrou, a French dramatist established in le Havre, who encouraged him to pursue his efforts. Le Havre, a heavily destroyed city during World War II and rebuilt in the structural classicism style will often reappear in Duteurtre's later works.

Music background edit

At the age of sixteen, Benoît Duteurtre was fascinated with modern music, especially the work of Pierre Boulez. In 1977, Benoît began musicology studies at the university of Rouen, France. That same year, he met Karlheinz Stockhausen and, a year later, Iannis Xenakis. In 1979, Benoît Duteurtre studied for a month with György Ligeti, whose musical theory later had a strong influence in his life. He graduated with a license in Musicology.

Life in the early '80s edit

However, Benoît Duteurtre also kept writing. In 1982, he sent Samuel Beckett a text called Nuit (Night); Beckett later convinced Duteurtre to publish it in La Revue des Editions de Minuit. At the time, Duteurtre lived in Paris, occasionally playing piano at the French music festival Le Printemps de Bourges, at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (in the Paris suburbs), or in a pop music French hit called Paris Latino. After that, he worked as a pollster, as a seller in a bazaar and worked as an accompanist in dance courses. He also wrote articles for the French Playboy magazine.

The first novels and the early '90s edit

Duteurtre's first novel, Sommeil Perdu, is about a depressed young man leaving his hometown to live in Paris. It was published in 1985, when Duteurtre was a journalist writing for several French newspapers. In 1987, he published his second novel, Les Vaches (completed and renamed À propos des vaches in 2000), which presents the life of a boy growing between his school year in Le Havre and his holidays in the French mountains. The magazine L'infini also published some of his short stories.

In 1991, Benoît Duteurtre became music advisor for the Lyon Biennal of French music, and started to host a radio show about music.

L'amoureux malgré lui (1989) started a social study followed by Tout doit disparaître (1992). In this novel Duteurtre relates some personal experiences from his activities as a journalist and music critic. He sent this novel to Guy Debord, who returned a friendly letter with these words "Il vous a suffi de voir le même siècle et sa sorte d'art, vous l'avez ressenti justement"[1] (you only needed to see the same century and its kind of art, you felt it precisely). Tout doit disparaître also revealed some Duteurtre's questions about contemporary music, especially wondering about what happened to French classical music in the late 20th century and why European contemporary music is unable to attract a large audience. These ideas would later be thoroughly developed in his essay Requiem pour une avant-garde.

Duteurtre discovered New York in 1990 and was charmed. This experience improved his understanding of the behavior of France towards the USA.[2] In 1993, he helped to revive the French musical collection Solfège (DuSeuil).

Requiem pour une avant-garde edit

Requiem pour une avant-garde, an essay published in 1995 analyzing and criticizing the institutionalization of contemporary music in France, triggered fierce criticism from some French newspapers. A journalist for the well-known French newspaper Le Monde published an article comparing Duteurtre to Robert Faurisson, a revisionist. Duteurtre sued the newspaper and won. Le Monde was forced to publish Duteurtre's answer. Supports came from several French newspapers and magazines (Le Point, Le Monde de la musique, Diapason) and from the International Herald Tribune newspaper.

Though the criticism of the work and the influence of Pierre Boulez as a composer is one of the main component of this essay, Duteurtre also put forward the problem of France's current nostalgia for its artistic leadership during the Belle Epoque in the late 19th-early 20th century. This idea will reappear later in some of these novels.

Late '90s works edit

In 1995, Marcel Landowski and Duteurtre created an association Musique Nouvelle en Liberté (New Music in Liberty) to promote new composers.

In 1996, Duteurtre published the novel Gaieté parisienne, about the Paris gay community. The novel also portrayed an almost 30-year-old man worried by the from now on known-pattern of his own life. Drôle de temps, a series of six short stories published in 1997 received the Prix de l'Académie Française (French Academy award). Milan Kundera was seduced and wrote a friendly article[3] which concurs with another fan of Duteurtre, Philippe Muray,[4] on important ideas about the role of a writer in the modern world.

In 1999 was published the novel Les malentendus, which details a series of crossed courses involving a young Arab immigrant in France, a company head woman, a young man who had graduated from Science-po, and a disabled gay middle-aged man. In 2001 the novel Le Voyage en France was awarded the Prix Médicis (Medicis award). In this last novel a young American, fond of the late 19th-early 20th century France discovers the modern France and in the same time, interlinked, the course of a middle-age man spending his life between euphoria and depression.

Service Clientèle (2003) is a series of short chapters related to commercial or technical assistances of companies selling cellulars, flight ticket and Internet connexions. This last work was kindly noted by François Taillandier in the French newspaper L'Humanité.[5] La Rebelle was published in 2004 and portrays a female TV show host, left leaning but nevertheless careerist and the plot which involves her, a young Egypt-born gay computer engineer, an old swindler and a big French company CEO.

Jérôme Savary's music-hall comedy Viva l'Opéra-Comique, whose texts were written by Duteurtre was premiered at Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris, in March 2004.

In 2005, La petite fille et la cigarette ( The Little Girl And the Cigarette ) was published, describing the horrible and slow chains of events by which a state employee will switch from a rather quiet life to the most horrible situation.

Duteurtre's novel Chemin de fer was published in 2006 and tells the story of a fifty-year-old woman divided between her career in Paris and her love for a small old-fashioned countryside house in the mountains. This latest novel is also a reflection about the evolution of our society and the so-called progress people have to adapt.

He also writes for the French literature magazine L'Atelier du Roman with authors like Milan Kundera and Michel Houellebecq. In April 2007 he wrote in this magazine an article for the death birthday of Philippe Muray, titled Muray est une fête (Muray is a feast).

In his last novel "La cité heureuse", published in August 2007, a big company (in French La Compagnie) acquired a whole city and turned it to a cultural theme park. Its inhabitants work as activity leaders. One of them, a TV series scriptwriter tries to adapt to this new life. Also published in 2007 "Ma belle époque", a collection of texts issued in different French newspapers, compose what Duteurtre thinks to be like a self-portrait of himself.

In 2009, he signed a petition in support of Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.[6]

Present times edit

Benoît Duteurtre is currently a journalist writing for several French newspapers as Marianne, le Figaro and Paris-Match and presents a radio show producer for France Musique, a French public radio. He is also a member of the publisher Editions Denoël's reading committee. His books have been translated in fifteen languages. Duteurtre works with the actress Fanny Ardant on Véronique, an operetta from André Messager for January 2008.

Bibliography edit

Novels edit

  • (1985) Sommeil Perdu
  • (1987) Les vaches
  • (1989) L'amoureux malgré lui
  • (1992) Tout doit disparaître
  • (1996) Gaieté parisienne
  • (1997) Drôle de temps
  • (1999) Les malentendus
  • (2000) À propos des vaches
  • (2001) Le voyage en France
  • (2003) Service Clientèle
  • (2004) La Rebelle
  • (2005) La petite fille et la cigarette
  • (2006) Chemin de fer
  • (2007) La Cité heureuse
  • (2008) Les Pieds dans l'eau
  • (2009) Ballets roses
  • (2010) Le Retour du Général
  • (2011) L'Été 76
  • (2012) À nous deux, Paris !
  • (2014) L'Ordinateur du Paradis
  • (2016) Livre pour adultes
  • (2018) En marche !
  • (2021) Ma Vie Extraordinaire
  • (2022) Dénoncez-Vous Les Uns Les Autres
  • (2024) Le Grand Rafraîchissement

Essays edit

  • (1995) Requiem pour une avant-garde
  • (1997) L'opérette en France
  • (2002) Le grand embouteillage
  • (2007) Ma belle époque
  • (2013) Polémiques
  • (2015) La nostalgie des buffets de gare
  • (2017) Pourquoi je préfère rester chez moi

Papers and short stories in edit

Common books under the direction of Duteurtre edit

  • (1991) 150 ans de musique française
  • (2002) Un siècle d'Opéra
  • (2003) Paris, capitale de la musique, 1850–1950
  • (2003) André Messager

Notes edit

  1. ^ Bourseiller, Christophe (1999). Vie et Mort de Guy Debord. Plon. ISBN 2-259-18797-8.
  2. ^ "Novelist, gadfly and rebel without a niche". International Herald Tribune. 2003-12-01.
  3. ^ "L'école du regard". Le Nouvel Observateur. 1997-01-30.
  4. ^ "Portrait de l'avant gardiste". Commentaire. 73. Spring 1996.
  5. ^ "Vers l'homme futur". L'Humanité. 2003-10-16.
  6. ^ "Signez la pétition pour Roman Polanski !". La Règle du jeu (in French). 10 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

References edit

  • "International Herald Tribune". Novelist, gadfly and rebel without a niche. Retrieved 5 April 2007. [dead link]
  • "Duteurtre Official Web Site (fr)". Biography. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
  • . Archived from the original on 10 April 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
  • "Benoît duteurtre by radio.cz (fr)". 5 May 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2007.
  • . About Requiem pour une avant-garde. Archived from the original on 26 April 2007. Retrieved 5 April 2007.

External links edit

  • Benoît Duteurtre official website
  • , trans. Charlotte Mandell, Melville House Publishing, 2006

January 01, 1970
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Benoit Duteurtre French dytœʁtʁ born 20 March 1960 is a French novelist and essayist He is also a musical critic musician producer and host of a radio show about music He spends his time between Paris New York and Normandy Benoit DuteurtreBenoit Duteurtre in 2015 Born 1960 03 20 20 March 1960 age 64 Sainte Adresse Seine Maritime NormandyOccupationWriter novelist critic musician producer hostPeriod1985 present Contents 1 Early life and family 2 Music background 3 Life in the early 80s 4 The first novels and the early 90s 5 Requiem pour une avant garde 6 Late 90s works 7 Present times 8 Bibliography 8 1 Novels 8 2 Essays 8 3 Papers and short stories in 8 4 Common books under the direction of Duteurtre 9 Notes 10 References 11 External linksEarly life and family editBenoit Duteurtre was born in Sainte Adresse Seine Maritime Normandy where he spent his first years He is the son of Jean Claude Duteurtre and Marie Claire Georges He is also the great grandson of the French president Rene Coty He attended Saint Joseph a catholic educational institution in le Havre Duteurtre began to write at an early age At fifteen he presented his firsts texts to Armand Salacrou a French dramatist established in le Havre who encouraged him to pursue his efforts Le Havre a heavily destroyed city during World War II and rebuilt in the structural classicism style will often reappear in Duteurtre s later works Music background editAt the age of sixteen Benoit Duteurtre was fascinated with modern music especially the work of Pierre Boulez In 1977 Benoit began musicology studies at the university of Rouen France That same year he met Karlheinz Stockhausen and a year later Iannis Xenakis In 1979 Benoit Duteurtre studied for a month with Gyorgy Ligeti whose musical theory later had a strong influence in his life He graduated with a license in Musicology Life in the early 80s editHowever Benoit Duteurtre also kept writing In 1982 he sent Samuel Beckett a text called Nuit Night Beckett later convinced Duteurtre to publish it in La Revue des Editions de Minuit At the time Duteurtre lived in Paris occasionally playing piano at the French music festival Le Printemps de Bourges at the Theatre Nanterre Amandiers in the Paris suburbs or in a pop music French hit called Paris Latino After that he worked as a pollster as a seller in a bazaar and worked as an accompanist in dance courses He also wrote articles for the French Playboy magazine The first novels and the early 90s editDuteurtre s first novel Sommeil Perdu is about a depressed young man leaving his hometown to live in Paris It was published in 1985 when Duteurtre was a journalist writing for several French newspapers In 1987 he published his second novel Les Vaches completed and renamed A propos des vaches in 2000 which presents the life of a boy growing between his school year in Le Havre and his holidays in the French mountains The magazine L infini also published some of his short stories In 1991 Benoit Duteurtre became music advisor for the Lyon Biennal of French music and started to host a radio show about music L amoureux malgre lui 1989 started a social study followed by Tout doit disparaitre 1992 In this novel Duteurtre relates some personal experiences from his activities as a journalist and music critic He sent this novel to Guy Debord who returned a friendly letter with these words Il vous a suffi de voir le meme siecle et sa sorte d art vous l avez ressenti justement 1 you only needed to see the same century and its kind of art you felt it precisely Tout doit disparaitre also revealed some Duteurtre s questions about contemporary music especially wondering about what happened to French classical music in the late 20th century and why European contemporary music is unable to attract a large audience These ideas would later be thoroughly developed in his essay Requiem pour une avant garde Duteurtre discovered New York in 1990 and was charmed This experience improved his understanding of the behavior of France towards the USA 2 In 1993 he helped to revive the French musical collection Solfege DuSeuil Requiem pour une avant garde editRequiem pour une avant garde an essay published in 1995 analyzing and criticizing the institutionalization of contemporary music in France triggered fierce criticism from some French newspapers A journalist for the well known French newspaper Le Monde published an article comparing Duteurtre to Robert Faurisson a revisionist Duteurtre sued the newspaper and won Le Monde was forced to publish Duteurtre s answer Supports came from several French newspapers and magazines Le Point Le Monde de la musique Diapason and from the International Herald Tribune newspaper Though the criticism of the work and the influence of Pierre Boulez as a composer is one of the main component of this essay Duteurtre also put forward the problem of France s current nostalgia for its artistic leadership during the Belle Epoque in the late 19th early 20th century This idea will reappear later in some of these novels Late 90s works editIn 1995 Marcel Landowski and Duteurtre created an association Musique Nouvelle en Liberte New Music in Liberty to promote new composers In 1996 Duteurtre published the novel Gaiete parisienne about the Paris gay community The novel also portrayed an almost 30 year old man worried by the from now on known pattern of his own life Drole de temps a series of six short stories published in 1997 received the Prix de l Academie Francaise French Academy award Milan Kundera was seduced and wrote a friendly article 3 which concurs with another fan of Duteurtre Philippe Muray 4 on important ideas about the role of a writer in the modern world In 1999 was published the novel Les malentendus which details a series of crossed courses involving a young Arab immigrant in France a company head woman a young man who had graduated from Science po and a disabled gay middle aged man In 2001 the novel Le Voyage en France was awarded the Prix Medicis Medicis award In this last novel a young American fond of the late 19th early 20th century France discovers the modern France and in the same time interlinked the course of a middle age man spending his life between euphoria and depression Service Clientele 2003 is a series of short chapters related to commercial or technical assistances of companies selling cellulars flight ticket and Internet connexions This last work was kindly noted by Francois Taillandier in the French newspaper L Humanite 5 La Rebelle was published in 2004 and portrays a female TV show host left leaning but nevertheless careerist and the plot which involves her a young Egypt born gay computer engineer an old swindler and a big French company CEO Jerome Savary s music hall comedy Viva l Opera Comique whose texts were written by Duteurtre was premiered at Theatre national de l Opera Comique Paris in March 2004 In 2005 La petite fille et la cigarette The Little Girl And the Cigarette was published describing the horrible and slow chains of events by which a state employee will switch from a rather quiet life to the most horrible situation Duteurtre s novel Chemin de fer was published in 2006 and tells the story of a fifty year old woman divided between her career in Paris and her love for a small old fashioned countryside house in the mountains This latest novel is also a reflection about the evolution of our society and the so called progress people have to adapt He also writes for the French literature magazine L Atelier du Roman with authors like Milan Kundera and Michel Houellebecq In April 2007 he wrote in this magazine an article for the death birthday of Philippe Muray titled Muray est une fete Muray is a feast In his last novel La cite heureuse published in August 2007 a big company in French La Compagnie acquired a whole city and turned it to a cultural theme park Its inhabitants work as activity leaders One of them a TV series scriptwriter tries to adapt to this new life Also published in 2007 Ma belle epoque a collection of texts issued in different French newspapers compose what Duteurtre thinks to be like a self portrait of himself In 2009 he signed a petition in support of Roman Polanski calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13 year old girl 6 Present times editBenoit Duteurtre is currently a journalist writing for several French newspapers as Marianne le Figaro and Paris Match and presents a radio show producer for France Musique a French public radio He is also a member of the publisher Editions Denoel s reading committee His books have been translated in fifteen languages Duteurtre works with the actress Fanny Ardant on Veronique an operetta from Andre Messager for January 2008 Bibliography editNovels edit 1985 Sommeil Perdu 1987 Les vaches 1989 L amoureux malgre lui 1992 Tout doit disparaitre 1996 Gaiete parisienne 1997 Drole de temps 1999 Les malentendus 2000 A propos des vaches 2001 Le voyage en France 2003 Service Clientele 2004 La Rebelle 2005 La petite fille et la cigarette 2006 Chemin de fer 2007 La Cite heureuse 2008 Les Pieds dans l eau 2009 Ballets roses 2010 Le Retour du General 2011 L Ete 76 2012 A nous deux Paris 2014 L Ordinateur du Paradis 2016 Livre pour adultes 2018 En marche 2021 Ma Vie Extraordinaire 2022 Denoncez Vous Les Uns Les Autres 2024 Le Grand Rafraichissement Essays edit 1995 Requiem pour une avant garde 1997 L operette en France 2002 Le grand embouteillage 2007 Ma belle epoque 2013 Polemiques 2015 La nostalgie des buffets de gare 2017 Pourquoi je prefere rester chez moi Papers and short stories in edit Revues Minuit L Infini L Atelier du roman Nouvelle revue francaise Le debat Revue des deux mondes NRV Commentaire Common books under the direction of Duteurtre edit 1991 150 ans de musique francaise 2002 Un siecle d Opera 2003 Paris capitale de la musique 1850 1950 2003 Andre MessagerNotes edit Bourseiller Christophe 1999 Vie et Mort de Guy Debord Plon ISBN 2 259 18797 8 Novelist gadfly and rebel without a niche International Herald Tribune 2003 12 01 L ecole du regard Le Nouvel Observateur 1997 01 30 Portrait de l avant gardiste Commentaire 73 Spring 1996 Vers l homme futur L Humanite 2003 10 16 Signez la petition pour Roman Polanski La Regle du jeu in French 10 November 2009 Archived from the original on 29 August 2021 Retrieved 29 August 2021 References edit International Herald Tribune Novelist gadfly and rebel without a niche Retrieved 5 April 2007 dead link Duteurtre Official Web Site fr Biography Retrieved 5 April 2007 Interview of Benoit duteurtre by ecrits vaints com fr Archived from the original on 10 April 2007 Retrieved 5 April 2007 Benoit duteurtre by radio cz fr 5 May 2006 Retrieved 5 April 2007 Interview of Benoit duteurtre by chronicart com fr About Requiem pour une avant garde Archived from the original on 26 April 2007 Retrieved 5 April 2007 External links editBenoit 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