Henri-Pierre Roché – författare

Based on a real-life love triangle and later made into François Truffaut's famous New Wave film, Henri-Pierre Roché's Jules et Jim is a paean to youth set in free-spirited Paris before the First World War. Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence: they write in cafés, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. Like Lucie, flawless, an abbess, and Odile, impulsive, mischievous, almost feral. But it is Kate - with a smile the two friends have determined to follow always, but capricious enough to jump in the Seine from spite - who steals their hearts most thoroughly. Henri-Pierre Roché was in his mid-seventies when he wrote this, his autobiographical debut novel. The inspiration for the legendary film directed by François Truffaut, it captures perfectly with excitement and great humour the tenderness of three people in love with each other and with life.This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Patrick Evans with an introduction by Agnès C. Poirier and an afterword by François Truffaut.Henri-Pierre Roché (1879-1959) was born in Paris. After studying art at the Academie Julian, he became a journalist and art dealer, mixing with the avant-garde artistic set; his friends and acquaintances included the artists Michel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, and in 1905 he introduced Gertrude Stein to Pablo Picasso. In 1916, following his discharge from the French army, Roché went to New York and set up a Dadaist magazine, The Blind Man, with Duchamp and the artist Beatrice Wood. It wasn't until his seventies that he wrote the semi-autobiographical Jules et Jim (1953); his second novel, Les deux anglaises et le continent, was published in 1956.If you enjoyed Jules et Jim, you might like Raymond Radiguet's The Devil in the Flesh, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'A perfect hymn to love and perhaps to life'François Truffaut, director of Jules et Jim and The 400 Blows

Based on a real-life love triangle and later made into François Truffaut's famous New Wave film, Henri-Pierre Roché's Jules et Jim is a paean to youth set in free-spirited Paris before the First World War. Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence: they write in cafés, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. Like Lucie, flawless, an abbess, and Odile, impulsive, mischievous, almost feral. But it is Kate - with a smile the two friends have determined to follow always, but capricious enough to jump in the Seine from spite - who steals their hearts most thoroughly. Henri-Pierre Roché was in his mid-seventies when he wrote this, his autobiographical debut novel. The inspiration for the legendary film directed by François Truffaut, it captures perfectly with excitement and great humour the tenderness of three people in love with each other and with life.This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Patrick Evans with an introduction by Agnès C. Poirier and an afterword by François Truffaut.Henri-Pierre Roché (1879-1959) was born in Paris. After studying art at the Academie Julian, he became a journalist and art dealer, mixing with the avant-garde artistic set; his friends and acquaintances included the artists Michel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, and in 1905 he introduced Gertrude Stein to Pablo Picasso. In 1916, following his discharge from the French army, Roché went to New York and set up a Dadaist magazine, The Blind Man, with Duchamp and the artist Beatrice Wood. It wasn't until his seventies that he wrote the semi-autobiographical Jules et Jim (1953); his second novel, Les deux anglaises et le continent, was published in 1956.If you enjoyed Jules et Jim, you might like Raymond Radiguet's The Devil in the Flesh, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'A perfect hymn to love and perhaps to life'François Truffaut, director of Jules et Jim and The 400 Blows

Collects together a novel and a memoir of a triangular relationship during the early days of the Dada movement in New York along with its creative progeny, two magazines: The Blindman and Rongwrong. Henri-Pierre Roche is best known for his novel Jules et Jim, based on the three-sided relationship between himself, the artist Marcel Duchamp and the actress Beatrice Wood. A unique first-hand evocation of the three friends and lovers within their milieu, which included extraordinary characters such as Francis Picabia, Isadora Duncan, Arthur Cravan and many more.

Henri Pierre Roché, s’il n’est pas complètement méconnu, c’est parce que, souvent, il est associé au nom d’un autre. Le silence autour d’Henri Pierre Roché est inqualifiable parce qu’il ne rend pas justice à son oeuvre et sa personnalité. Et aussi, parce que au coeur de la création artistique de la première moitié du xxe siècle, il éclaire d’une manière très particulière l’histoire culturelle de cette époque.Son oeuvre écrite : François Truffaut a sauvé une partie de cette oeuvre de l’oubli. Mais paradoxalement, ses films ont aussi étouffé l’oeuvre de Roché, qu’il est temps de reconnaître à sa juste valeur. Jules et Jim et Deux Anglaises et le Continent sont d’une modernité étonnante non seulement par les thèmes abordés mais surtout par la manière dont ils le sont : un style extrêmement tendu, où la parataxe l’emporte sur le développement complaisant, une pointe acérée pour faire vivre des personnages, le sens du détail concret qui évacue le long discours, la confrontation de points de vue, sans parler de l’utilisation d’une abondante matière autobiographique

Paris 1907: Der Deutsche Jules und der Franzose Jim lernen sich kennen und werden unzertrennliche Freunde. Sie teilen bedenkenlos und ohne jegliche Eifersucht alles, was sie lieben: die Literatur, die Kunst und die Frauen. Doch dann taucht Kathe auf, eine aufregende Berlinerin, die beide Männer gleichermaßen in ihren Bann zieht. Sie entscheidet sich für Jules, doch Jim lässt sie keineswegs kalt. Jules und Kathe ziehen nach Deutschland und heiraten. Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg sehen sie den alten Freund wieder, und es entwickelt sich eine leidenschaftliche Dreiecksbeziehung. Bald gerät die Amour fou zwischen Kathe und Jim zu einem tragischen Spiel, bei dem es keinen Gewinner geben kann.JULES UND JIM basiert auf Henri-Pierre Rochés Beziehung mit Helen Hessel, der Frau seines besten Freundes Franz Hessel, dem Schriftsteller. Den 1953 erschienenen Roman entdeckte François Truffaut und verfilmte ihn mit Jeanne Moreau in der Hauptrolle. Der Film kam 1962 in die Kinos und wurde zum Klassiker.

I slutet av sitt liv fullbordade Henri-Pierre Roché två romaner: \"Jules och Jim\" och \"Den långa kyssen\". \"Den långa kyssen\" är en sann historia om den stora kärleken mellan tre, två engelska systrar och en fransman. En historia som begynner strax före sekelskiftet och slutar 1927. Det är en bok om djupa känslor och deras (o)beständighet, om trohet och om möjligheten att älska fler än en. Den långa kyssen är även filmad av François Truffaut, under titeln Två systrar och Claude. Henri-Pierre Roché föddes i Paris 1879 och dog 1959.