Boileau-Narcejac
Boileau-Narcejac is the nom de plume under which French crime fiction writers Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906, Paris – 16 January 1989, Beaulieu-sur-Mer) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908, Rochefort-sur-Mer – 9 June 1998, Nice) collaborated. A number of their works were adapted for film, including the renowned Les Diaboliques, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. They also notably adapted the novel Les yeux sans visage by Jean Redon into the horror film known in English as Eyes Without a Face (1960).
Individually, Boileau and Narcejac were each winners of the prestigious Prix du Roman d'Aventures, awarded each year to the best work of detective fiction, French or foreign: Boileau for Le Repos de Bacchus in 1938 and Narcejac for La Mort est du Voyage in 1948, each a locked-room mystery. They met in 1948 at the award dinner for Narcejac, to which Boileau — as a prior winner — had also been invited. Their collaboration began soon after, with Boileau providing the plots and Narcejac the atmosphere and characterisation, not unlike Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee ("Ellery Queen").
Bibliography
- 1952 - Celle qui n'était plus; English translation: The Woman Who Was No More (1954)
- 1952 - Les Visages de l'ombre; English translation: Faces in the Dark (1955)
- 1954 - D'entre les morts; English translation: The Living and the Dead (1956), also published as Vertigo
- 1956 - Les louves; English translation: The Prisoner (1957)
- 1956 - Le mauvais oeil; English translation: The Evil Eye (1959)
- 1956 - Au bois dormant; English translation: Sleeping Beauty (1959)
- 1957 - Les magiciennes
- 1958 - L'ingénieur aimait trop les chiffres; English translation: The Tube (1960)
- 1959 - À cœur perdu; English translation: Heart to Heart (1959)
- 1961 - Maléfices; English translation: Spells of Evil (1961)
- 1962 - Maldonne
- 1964 - Les victimes; English translation: Who Was Clare Jallu? (1965), also published as The Victims
- 1965 - Le train bleu s'arrête treize fois (short stories)
- 1965 - Et mon tout est un homme; English translation: Choice Cuts (1966)
- 1978 - Carte vermeil
- 1980 - Les intouchables
- 1990 - Le soleil dans la main
- 1991 - La main passe
- 1992 - Les nocturnes
Boileau-Narcejac also wrote the "Sans Atout" series for younger readers. They relate the adventures of a young boy detective.
- Les pistolets de Sans Atout ( The guns of Sans Atout )
- Sans Atout contre l'homme à la dague ( Sans Atout versus the man with the dagger )
- Sans Atout et le cheval fantôme ( Sans Atout and the ghost horse )
- Sans Atout, une étrange disparition ( Sans Atout : a strange disappearance )
- Sans Atout, l'invisible agresseur ( Sans Atout and the invisible stalker )
- Sans Atout, la vengeance de la mouche ( Sans Atout and the fly's vengeance )
- Sans Atout dans la gueule du loup ( Sans Atout in the wolf's mouth )
- Sans Atout, le cadavre fait le mort ( Sans Atout and the dead corpse )
Notable adaptations
- 1955 – Les Diaboliques, France, directed by Clouzot (novel Celle qui n'était plus)
- 1957 – S.O.S. Noronha, France, directed by Georges Rouquier
- 1958 – Vertigo, USA, directed by Hitchcock (novel D'entre les morts)
- 1960 - Faces in the Dark, UK, directed by David Eady (novel Les Visages de l'ombre)
- 1967 – Choice Cuts, USA, abandoned Arthur P. Jacobs production with James Bridges screenplay (novel Et mon tout est un homme)
- 1991 – Body Parts, USA, (novel Et mon tout est un homme)
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28 April 1906 |
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16 January 1989 |
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