René Barjavel

Sceneggiatore

24 gennaio 1911 — 24 novembre 1985 (74 anni)
René Barjavel (24 January 1911 – 24 November 1985) was a French author, journalist and critic who may have been the first to think of the grandfather paradox in time travel. He was born in Nyons, a town in the Drôme department in southeastern France. He is best known as a science fiction author, whose work often involved the fall of civilisation due to technocratic hubris and the madness of war, but who also favoured themes emphasising the durability of love.

René Barjavel wrote several novels with these themes, such as Ravage (translated as Ashes, ashes), Le Grand Secret, La Nuit des temps (translated as The Ice People), and Une rose au paradis. His writing is poetic, dreamy and sometimes philosophical. Some of his works have their roots in an empirical and poetic questioning of the existence of God (notably La Faim du tigre). He was also interested in the environmental heritage which we leave to future generations. Whilst his works are rarely taught in French schools, his books are very popular in France.

Barjavel wrote Le Voyageur imprudent (1943), the first novel to present the famous Grandfather paradox of time travel: if one goes backwards in time and kills one of their ancestors before he had children, the traveller cannot exist and therefore cannot kill the ancestor.

Barjavel died in 1985 and was buried with his ancestors in Tarendol (commune) cemetery, opposite Mount Ventoux in Provence. He used these place names in his books; Mount Ventoux appears as the site of the space base in Colomb de la lune, for example, and Tarendol is the name of the hero in the eponymous novel.

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Film e Serie su Plex

  • La meravigliosa avventura
    La meravigliosa avventura1953

Famoso per

  • Don Camillo
    Don Camillo1952
  • Il ritorno di Don Camillo
    Il ritorno di Don Camillo1953
  • Il montone a cinque zampe
    Il montone a cinque zampe1954
  • I miserabili
    I miserabili1958
  • Angelica ragazza jet
    Angelica ragazza jet1959
  • La meravigliosa avventura
    La meravigliosa avventura1953
  • Le cas du Docteur Laurent
    Le cas du Docteur Laurent1957
  • L'uomo dall'impermeabile
    L'uomo dall'impermeabile1957
  • Pelle d'oca
    Pelle d'oca1963
  • Le tentazioni quotidiane
    Le tentazioni quotidiane1962
  • Boulevard
    Boulevard1960
  • Lo strano desiderio del signor Bard
    Lo strano desiderio del signor Bard1954
  • Totò a Parigi
    Totò a Parigi1958
  • Katmandu
    Katmandu1969
  • Le diavolerie di Till
    Le diavolerie di Till1956
  • Fuga nel sole
    Fuga nel sole1956
  • Come imparai ad amare le donne
    Come imparai ad amare le donne1966
  • Donne senza nome
    Donne senza nome1950
  • Conduite à gauche
    Conduite à gauche1962
  • The Terror with Women
    The Terror with Women1956

Filmografia

1969
The Pleasure Pit · as Novel
1960
1960
1959
An Angel on Wheels · as Screenplay
1958
Love on the Riviera · as Screenplay
1958
Toto in Paris · as Screenplay
1958
1957
The Case of Dr. Laurent · as Screenplay
1956
1956
1954
1953
The Return of Don Camillo · as Screenplay
1952
1950
Women Without Names · as Screenplay