Roger Grenier

Writing

Roger Grenier

Born — Died

1919-09-19 — 2017-11-08

Place of birth

Caen, Calvados, France

Known for

Writing

Credits

8 titles

Roger Grenier (19 September 1919 – 8 November 2017) was a French writer, journalist and radio animator. He was Regent of the Collège de ’Pataphysique. As a youth, Grenier lived in Pau, where Andrélie opened a shop selling glasses. During the Second World War, he attended classes taught by Gaston Bachelard at the Sorbonne while participating in the French Resistance before actively participating in the 1944 liberation of Paris. In his memoir Paris ma grand'ville, Grenier describes being briefly arrested and narrowly avoiding execution by the Occupation forces on the boulevard Saint-Germain. He was only able to escape after an argument in German broke out among his captors. After the Liberati…

Known for

Apostrophes poster
8.5

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Apostrophes

1975

30 millions d'amis poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

30 millions d'amis

1976

Elective Affinities poster
5.5

On the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both becoming widows, invite two guests to their home: a childhood friend of Edouard's called the Captain, and despite Charlotte's ominous premonition, Ottilie, Charlotte's beautiful and orphaned niece...

Elective Affinities

1983

Nul n'est parfait poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Nul n'est parfait

1974

De Grey, un Récit romanesque poster
9.0

An elderly woman would like some company as her son is off venturing foreign lands and seducing women from lands afar. Her resident priest who seems to live in the same château as her does not agree and seems to have preconceptions and superstitions as to a family curse.

De Grey, un Récit romanesque

1976

Amour de vivre poster
5.5

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his childhood in Algiers, his literary career and his constant struggle against the pomposity of French bourgeois intellectuals, his communist commitment, his love for Spain and his opposition to the independence of Algeria, since it would cause the loss of his true home, his definitive estrangement.

Amour de vivre

2010

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