André de Nerciat (1739 - 1800)
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Le diable au corps (1786) - André de Nerciat
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Biography
André Robert de Nerciat (1739 - 1800) was a French novelist, best known for his novel Le diable au corps. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Robert_de_Nerciat [Nov 2005]He was born in 1739 and died shortly after his release from jail in 1798. The heroine in his chief work "Felicia" is said to be a friend of his. -- http://www.eroticabibliophile.com/people19.html [Jan 2005]
Profile
Romancier français né en 1739 et mort en 1800.
Nerciat voyage à travers toute l’Europe comme soldat de fortune,
agent secret.
Lors de ses périgrinations il rencontre de grands hommes
de lettres: le Prince de Ligne, épicurien qu’il croise à
Bruxelles en 1776 et auquel il dédie ses Contes Nouveaux; le Marquis
de Luchet, admirateur de Voltaire qui le fait nommer pour deux ans sous-bibliothécaire
à la cour de Landgrave de Hesse-Cassel.
Nerciat est aussi un grand dramaturge. Son oeuvre comporte deux phases, le théâtre et le roman.
Ses publications:
- Félicia ou Mes Fredaines
1786 – Diable au Corps: ce roman sera signé par un
prétendu Docteur Cazzone, membre extraordinaire de la “Joyeuse Faculté
Phallo-coïto-pygo-glottonomique”
1793 – Les Aphrodites
Andréa de Nerciat reprend alors ses errances et s’engage dans l’armée des Princes. Il va jusqu’en Italie où il meurt après avoir été policier, prisonnier et chambellan de la Reine de Naples.
Ecrit Malassis
- Mon Noviciat ou Les joies de Lolotte
- Les Aphrodites
- Le Diable au corps
- Le Doctorat impromptu
- Contes nouveaux
Le Diable au Corps
- Le Diable au corps is a novel by Raymond Radiguet.
- Le Diable au corps is a French film by Claude Autant-Lara (1946), an adaptation of Radiguet's novel.
- Le Diable au corps (Il diavolo in corpo) is an Italian film by Marco Bellochio (1986), an adaptation of Radiguet's novel.
- Le Diable au corps is a 1786 novel by André Robert de Nerciat.
In 1947 Claude Autant-Lara released his film Le diable au corps, based on Radiguets's novel, and starring Gérard Philipe. Coming just after World War II, the movie caused some controversy on its turn. There would be a second - and heavily adapted - cinematic version of Radiguet's story, by Marco Bellocchio in 1986, that became notorious for its graphic scenes of sex. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Radiguet [Sept 2004]I saw this film many years ago in 1983. Since then it has never appeared on French Television. Although one of the masterpieces of French Cinema has never been available on videocassette ?? A truly weird atmosphere where parts of the soundtrack are played backwards to indicate flashbacks and god knows where they got the music from for the funeral. The sheer insignificance of Marthe's death in relation to the overall joy at the Armistice being signed is striking. Gérard Philippe is experiencing internal sadness which is incomprehansible for the rest of the world around him. It appears that the original book by Raymond Radiguet caused quite a scandal at the time perhaps for this reason even today the film cannot be seen in France. Is it available in other countries ? The themes music by René Cloarec is quite haunting. The picture and sound quality is very poor, such a shame for such a moving film. Perhaps one day it will be remasterized and edited in VHS or DVD.A remake was made in the late 90's but is not a patch on the original.--(nicholas.rhodes@libertysurf.fr) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038476/ [Sept 2004]
Felicien Rops [...]
Nerciat, A. de. Le diable au corps, oeuvre posthume de tres recommandable Dr. Cazzone....membre extraordinaire de la joyeuse faculte phallo-coiropygo- glottonomique. Brussels. Poulet-Malassis. 1865
3 volumes. 4to., 12 etched plates by Felicien Rops, in several states., Contemporary half green morocco.
Large paper copy on Hollande with the plates in either 3 or 4 states including most with contemporary photographs of the original drawing.A very rare set of one of Rops's most famous erotic sets of prints. --http://www.polybiblio.com/simsreed/2658.html [Sept 2004]
Lolotte (1792) - Andrea de Nerciat
Lolotte (1792) - Andrea de Nerciat [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Tout lecteur de Lolotte en sera convaincu, Nerciat est l’un des meilleurs écrivains du XVIIIe siècle. C’est le Diderot de la pornographie. D’ailleurs, bien des cousinages littéraires existent entre Jacques le fataliste et Lolotte. Dans les deux romans, l’auteur joue avec le lecteur et le maître mot reste le plaisir de conter, qui les amours de Jacques, qui les fouteries de Lolotte. Vaste rhapsodie qu’unifie un parti pris de gaieté, de dérision et de parodie, Lolotte est un roman libre, dans tous les sens du terme. --http://www.zulma.fr/TitresDetail.asp?L=265 [Jan 2005]
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