Un siècle d'écrivains
Un siècle d'écrivains was a French series of television documentary films aired on France 3 between 1995 and 2001. A total of 257 documentaries were made, each focusing on a writer active during the 20th century. The series was initiated by France 3's program director Jean-Pierre Cottet in the spring of 1994. Each episode was independently produced by different production companies and directors, restricted to a running time of 52 minutes. The episodes were presented by Bernard Rapp. The series ended with a special episode about Antoine Chuquet, an imaginary writer made up by the producers.
List of episodes
This list is incomplete. It is ordered alphabetically after the author portrayed.- Alain-Fournier by Jacques Tréfouël
- Jorge Amado by Henri Raillard
- Guillaume Apollinaire by Jean-Claude Bringuier
- Antonin Artaud by André S. Labarthe
- Audiberti, des tonnes de semences by Philippe Condroyer
- Marcel Aymé by Sylvain Roumette
- Maurice Barrès by Jean-Claude Lamy and Claude Vajda
- Hervé Bazin by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe and Pierre Moustiers
- Simone de Beauvoir by Valérie Stroh and Pascale Fautrier
- Georges Bernanos by Patrick Zeyen
- Karen Blixen by Jean-Noël Cristiani
- Antoine Blondin by Jean-François Gire
- Borges, l'homme miroir by Alberto Manguel and Philippe Molins
- Henri Bosco by Jean-François Jung
- Mikhaïl Afanassievitch Boulgakov by Iossif Pasternak
- Emmanuel Bove by Hervé Duhamel
- René Guy Cadou
- Albert Camus by Calmette Joël and Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
- Roger Caillois by Nicolas Stern and Dominique Rabourdin
- Italo Calvino by Edgardo Cozarinsky
- Alejo Carpentier : Ici et là-bas by Emilio Pacull
- Constantin Cavafis by Elgal Erera
- Jean Cayrol, Lazare parmi nous by Jean-Luc Alpigiano and Jacques Loiseleux
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, un diamant noir comme l'enfer by Emmanuel Descombes and Alain Moreau
- Blaise Cendrars by Claude-Pierre Cahvanon
- Jacques Chardonne by Marie-Dominique Montel
- Andrée Chedid by Antoine Léonard and Vicky Sommet
- Agatha Christie maîtresse du mystère by Jérôme de Missolz
- Antoine Chuquet by Alain Wieder
- Cioran by Bernard Jourdain and Patrice Bollon
- Bernard Clavel by Claude Vajda
- Albert Cohen by Glenio Bonder and William Karel
- Colette by Jacques Tréfouël
- Arthur Conan Doyle by Marie-Dominique Montel
- Julio Cortázar by Chantal Rémy
- Michel Déon by Pierre Dupouey
- John Dos Passos by Daniel Costelle
- James Ellroy by Benoît Cohen and François Guérif
- Paul Éluard by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle
- William Faulkner by Marc Jampolsky and Michel Abescat
- Carlos Fuentes by Valeria Sarmiento and Guy Scarpetta
- Anatole France by François Chaye and Olivier Barrot
- Romain Gary by Olivier Mille and André Asséo
- Jean Genet by Michel Van Zele
- Michel de Ghelderode, l'Archange by Patrick Zeyen
- Jean Giono by Claude Santelli
- Jean Giraudoux by Philippe Piazza and Marcel Jullian
- Édouard Glissant by Patrick Chamoiseau, Claude Chonville and Guy Deslauriers
- Nadine Gordimer
- Julien Gracq by Michel Mitrani
- Graham Greene by Marie-Dominique Montel
- Louis Guilloux by Josiane Maisse
- Sacha Guitry by Marcel Jullian and Philippe Piazza
- Patricia Highsmith by Philippe Kohly
- Chester Himes en noir et blanc by Michel Lebrun and Godwin Djadja
- Bohumil Hrabal by Patrick Cazals
- Les Derniers jours d'Aldous Huxley by Béatrice Limare
- Eugène Ionesco by Philippe Truffault
- Max Jacob by Alain Ferrari
- Alfred Jarry by Jean-Christophe Averty
- Pierre Jean Jouve by Olivier Mille and Robert Kopp
- James Joyce by Antoine Gallien
- Ernst Jünger by Gero von Boehm
- Kafka by Karel Procop
- Kipling ou le syndrome de Lahore by Francis Guillery
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa by Dominique Gros and Jean-Claude Navarro
- Valery Larbaud by François Chayé
- Thomas Edward Lawrence by Marie-Dominique Montel
- Paul Léautaud by Patrick Zeyen
- Michel Leiris ou l'homme sans honneur by Christophe Barreyre
- Gaston Leroux by Jean-François Jung
- Primo Levi
- Jack London, enfant rebelle du rêve californien by Michel Viotte
- Toute marche mystérieuse vers un destin, le cas Lovecraft by Pierre Trividic, Patrick Mario Bernard and Anne-Louise Trividic
- Carson McCullers by Fabrice Cazeneuve
- Vladimir Maiakovski
- Curzio Malaparte by Jean-Paul Fargier
- François Mauriac by Olivier Guiton and Jérôme Prieur
- Henri Michaux by Alain Jaubert
- Yukio Mishima by Jean-Claude Lubtchansky
- Alberto Moravia, l'homme qui regarde by Nico Di Biase
- Henry Miller by Robert Mugnerot
- Patrick Modiano by Paule Zajdermann and Antoine de Gaudemar
- Robert Musil by Alain Jaubert
- Pablo Neruda by Amalia Escriva
- Jean Paulhan, le don d'ubiquité by Jérôme Prieur
- Cesare Pavese by Alain Bergala
- Charles Péguy by Jean-Paul Fargier
- Georges Perros by Jérôme Garcin and Paul André Picton
- Jacques Prévert le cancre magnifique by Gilles Nadeau
- Fernando Pessoa le voyageur immobile by Isabel Calpe
- Marcel Proust by Pierre Dumayet
- André Pieyre de Mandiargues, l'amateur d'imprudence by Evelyne Clavaud
- Raymond Queneau by Robert Bobert
- Les Deux vies du chat Radiguet by Jean-Christophe Averty and Pierre Trividic
- Alain Robbe Grillet by Frédéric Compain
- Salman Rushdie by Elisa Mantin
- Ernesto Sábato by Gonzalo Arijon
- Françoise Sagan by Mona Makki and Dominique Gallet
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry by Jacques Tréfouël
- Jérôme David Salinger by Benoît Jacquot
- Jean-Paul Sartre l'écriture by Dominique Masson
- Nathalie Sarraute by Jacques Doillon
- Leonardo Sciascia, une vérité née en Sicile by Françoise Gallo
- Victor Segalen un poète aventurier dans l'empire du ciel by Olivier Horn
- David Shahar by Elgal Erera
- Georges Simenon by Francis Lacassin
- Alexandre Soljenitsyne by Françoise Wolff and Michel Parfenoff
- Philippe Soupault by Antoine Gallien
- Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein by Arnaud des Pallières
- John Steinbeck ou l'esprit des lieux by Alain Gallet and Michel Le Bris
- André Suarès, l'insurgé by Françoise Gallo and Robert Parienté
- Rabindranath Tagore by Sylvain Roumette
- Paul Valéry by Pierre Dumayet and Robert Bober
- Marguerite Yourcenar by Dominique Gros
- Lu Xun'' by Henry Lange