Première rue à gauche

Denis Manuel

Flammarion, 1979
Language ‏ : ‎ French
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 261 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 2080642081
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2080642080
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 330 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14 x 2 x 20 cm

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"A bird, it may not be much, but it is still a presence," my concierge told me one day. Having a beautiful soul, displaying good feelings, is within everyone's reach.

But holding hands and entering the overcrowded solitude of prisons, simply to say good morning and chat about this and that with men who have become numbers, is easier to write with a twist of the pen than to achieve.

An emotion flows from Denis Manuel's book, that of a man, never sectarian, who wanders in a labyrinth in pursuit of who knows what dream of a lost paradise and who searches for the password to understand and try to help others.

The contrast between his life as a man, as an artist, and this dead universe is astonishing.

Marcel Mouloudji

Denis Manuel Biography

Born in Paris, Denis Manuel initially took theatre courses in Alençon, where he worked in a printing house, then in Le Mans.

Back in Paris, he entered the Simon course, then began his career at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest, where he played Albert Camus.

At the cinema, he worked with, among others, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Luis Buñuel, Yves Boisset and Jean Marbœuf.

On television, he appears in around a hundred TV series, from "La caméra explore le temps" at his beginnings up to "L'Affaire Seznec", under the direction of Stellio Lorenzi, Claude Barma, Alexandre Astruc, Jean Kerchbron, André Cayatte, Yannick Andréi, Jean-Pierre Igoux, Pierre Cardinal, François Villiers, Maurice Cazeneuve or Jean-François Delassus, playing various historical characters including Louis XI, Henry III, Louis XIV, Voltaire, Saint-Just or Napoleon Bonaparte.

At the theater, he acted under the direction of Jean Vilar at the TNP, then worked, among others, with Albert Camus, Roger Planchon, Raymond Rouleau, Laurent Terzieff, Gabriel Garran, André Reybaz, Pierre Boutron, Andréas Voutsinas or Jérôme Savary.

He is an interpreter of Paul Claudel, Henry de Montherlant, Albert Camus, Jean Racine, Federico García Lorca, Marcel Achard, Molière, Max Frisch.

He is the author of two books including "Première rue à gauche" which recounts his experience as a prison visitor.

For the general public, he is a true tragedian, embodying the humanist lawyer Maître Fontgrave in the series "Jacquou le croquant" by Stellio Lorenzi, in 1969.

In 1971, he played an extraordinary Henri III in the television series "La Dame de Monsoreau".

He was a prison visitor. He died on October 9, 1993, at the age of 62.

Source: wikipedia

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