RIP: Writer Andre Ruellan dies at 94

The writer André Ruellan has died at 94

André Ruellan, who died on 10 November, at the age of 94, has left us the ultimate gift, the most explosive announcement deadly qu'onques only wrote: " He died a breath without rattle moved in kindness. His friends and relatives appreciate the elegance of gesture. "Elegance which was his, but propriety against which all his life, over 44 novels, 90 new and many scenarios, he led a ruthless struggle.

Born August 7, 1922 in Courbevoie (welder father and anarchist), it devours children, great popular classics (Jean de La Hire) and science-fictional (Flammarion, Wells). Intending to the teaching profession, he sees his vocation stress and broken by war and then by hiding, which he joined in 1943 by refusing the STO. Two years teaching at the Liberation, he then opted in 1948 for studies of medicine which, completed in 1955, will lead him to exercise ten years, from 1960 to 1970 as a generalist in the Les Halles district.

But the key is also in the initiation of a popular writer career, fantasy and science fiction, brings this intimate Gerard Klein and Philippe Curval to publish the Black River, under the pseudonym Kurt Steiner between 1955 and 1960 in "Anguish" collections "Anticipation," 29 volumes with titles unstoppable. Gourdon adorned with blankets and Brantonne will succeed including Window on the obscure , (1956) The threshold vacuum (1956, brought to the screen by Jean-François Davy in 1971), Cold Teeth (1957), The Outfitters ( 1957), white Syncope (1958), The Mask regrets (1960). Stories mingling resurgence of Gothic themes, exploration of existential vertigo and cul-de-sac in a logical dementia.

In 1987, the collection "Gore" will host the last Kurt Steiner of Black River: Grand Guignol 36-88. Breast of his science-fiction published in producing Black River and in the collection "Elsewhere and Tomorrow" by Robert Laffont, stand out among others the diptych of Ortog, To arms of Ortog (1960) and Ortog and darkness (1969 Reed Mnémos 2016 for all two titles) saga of a young shepherd up against the massive contamination of Earth by an unknown evil. Moreover Striped Disk (1970) or Tunnel (1973), two dystopias, give the urban future and a dark catastrophic vision.

Three years after its period of intense output (six issues a year) in Black River, in 1963, Dr. André Ruellan gives us his manual skills die (Pierre Horay Publisher). Illustrated by Topor, this moriendi arte , methodical Breviary of cynical disenchantment and nihilism jubilant, leads him to attend André Breton, to hike with the core founder of the group Panic, Arrabal and Jodorowsky, and to start , this time under the pseudonym Kurt Dupont, a novelist of career of Hara-Kiri .

But it is from the 1970s, a new path opens to him: that of cinema. Between 1970 and 2002, we find the mixed, as a writer, in many black and humorous lurches of cinema French: if scripted, arm in arm, with Pierre Richard, Yves Robert and Topor, The Distracted (1970) and the Troubles of Alfred (1972), it is with Alain Jessua and Jean-Pierre Mocky that collaboration will be crucial. With the first, he adapts Heaven for all (1982) and especially Dogs (1979), chilling story of hypnotic fascination of the inhabitants of a great set for a dog (Gérard Depardieu) to ultrasécuritaire credo. With Mocky, mischief prove without number, we go out of the collaboration with the total complicity Ruellan dialogue and scripted the most formidable coils of man's Brady: The Scarlet Ibis (with Michel Simon, 1975) the King of the handymen (with Sim, 1977) It freezes in hell (1990) , Cities for sale (1992), Change (1998), mercy Beast (2001).

" Mortals have no less care to bury thoughts of death bury the same dead" , enacts Bossuet highlight the Manual know die , André Ruellan has made of the grim reaper and a companion will carouse crossed the line ( Le Seuil vacuum ?), aboard his legendary scooter, laughing and eye glass in hand, to honor him!

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