Francis Lacassin
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Francis Lacassin, 18 November 1931 – 12 August 2008 , was a French journalist, editor, writer, screenplay writer and essayist.
He's starting to work for the Jean-Jacques Pauvert
's magazine Bizarre in 1964. He was writing about fantastic and detective literature in Magazine Littéraire, worked for L'Express
and for Le Point
. He also was responsible of the Christian Bourgois collection 10/18.
Specialist of Pop Culture, he was member of a group which help comic book
s to be recognize and he coined the 9th art word. He wrote prefaces for reference editions of many authors and series for the Éditions Robert Laffont
. He was responsible of the Bouquins collection since 1982. He worked on authors such as: Eugène Sue
, Gustave Le Rouge
, Maurice Leblanc
, Fantômas
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Jack London
, etc.
That is why he was nicknamed "the man of thousand prefaces".
He's starting to work for the Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Jean-Jacques Pauvert is a French publisher, notable for publishing the work of the Marquis de Sade in the early 1950s and as the first publisher of the Story of O and the first edition of Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylone .-External links:...
's magazine Bizarre in 1964. He was writing about fantastic and detective literature in Magazine Littéraire, worked for L'Express
L'Express (France)
L'Express is a French weekly news magazine. When founded in 1953 during the First Indochina War, it was modelled on the US magazine TIME.-History:...
and for Le Point
Le Point
Le Point is a French weekly news magazine. It was founded in 1972 by a group of journalists who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of L'Express, which was then owned by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, a député of the Parti Radical...
. He also was responsible of the Christian Bourgois collection 10/18.
Specialist of Pop Culture, he was member of a group which help comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
s to be recognize and he coined the 9th art word. He wrote prefaces for reference editions of many authors and series for the Éditions Robert Laffont
Éditions Robert Laffont
Éditions Robert Laffont is a book publishing company in France founded in 1941 by Robert Laffont. Its publications are distributed in almost all francophone countries, but mainly in France, Canada and in Belgium....
. He was responsible of the Bouquins collection since 1982. He worked on authors such as: Eugène Sue
Eugène Sue
Joseph Marie Eugène Sue was a French novelist.He was born in Paris, the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the Empress Joséphine for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the Battle of Navarino...
, Gustave Le Rouge
Gustave Le Rouge
Gustave Henri Joseph Le Rouge was a French writer who embodied the evolution of modern science fiction at the beginning of the 20th century, by moving it away from the juvenile adventures of Jules Verne and incorporating real people into his stories, thus bridging the gap between Vernian and...
, Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.- Biography :Leblanc was born in...
, Fantômas
Fantômas
Fantômas is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre .One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared in a total of 32 volumes written by the two collaborators, then a subsequent 11...
, H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
, Jack London
Jack London
John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
, etc.
That is why he was nicknamed "the man of thousand prefaces".
Some books
- Sur les chemins qui marchent (mémoires de l'auteur), éd. du Rocher, 2006
- TarzanTarzanTarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...
ou le Chevalier crispé, 10/18. L'ouvrage comprend en annexe un lexique de la langue grand-singeManganiMangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes. In the invented language, Mangani is the apes' word for their own kind, although the term is also applied to humans...
. - Pour un neuvième art : la bande dessinée
- Pour Une Contre Histoire Du Cinéma
- Sous le masque de Léo MaletLéo Malet-Biography:Leo Malet was born in Montpellier. He had little formal education and began work as a cabaret singer at "La Vache Enragee" in Montmartre, Paris in 1925....
: Nestor BurmaNestor BurmaNestor Burma is a fictional character created by French crime novelist Léo Malet. In the series of crime novels featuring him one can isolate a subset of novels each set in a different quarter of Paris which Malet dubbed the "New Mysteries of Paris", homaging the most famous feuilleton of the 19th...
(éd. Encrage) - Alfred MachinAlfred MachinAlfred Machin was one of the rare French film directors whose films expressed progressivist tendencies before World War I. Ironically it turns out during this war his films of the current events were of cinematographic service to the French Army. After 1920, AlfredMachin devoted himself in...
: de la jungle à l'écran, Paris, Dreamland, 2001, 223 p. - Louis Feuillade, Anthologie du cinéma, 1966
- La société des cinéromans (1918–1930)
Articles
- Critique of the book "Family Without a NameFamily Without a NameFamily Without a Name is a 1889 adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and democratic republic for Lower Canada...
" by F. Lacassin (work by Jules VerneJules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
) - Preface of the book "Les Naufragés du « Jonathan »The Survivors of the 'Jonathan'The Survivors of the "Jonathan", also known as Magellania, is a novel that was written by Jules Verne in 1897. However, it was not published until 1909, after it had been rewritten by Verne's son Michel under the title Les naufragés du "Jonathan".Piero Gondolo della Riva discovered the original...
" by F. Lacassin, work by Jules Verne, adapted by his son, Michel VerneMichel VerneMichel Jean Pierre Verne was a writer and the son of Jules Verne.Because of his wayward behaviour, Michel was sent by his father to Mettray Penal Colony for six months in 1876. By the age of 19, he caused a scandal by eloping with an actress despite his famous father's objections...
.
External links
- Un portrait de Francis Lacassin on the site www.bibliotrutt.lu