Yann Moix
- Category : Poet Writer
- Type : GE
- Profile : 1/4 - Investigating / Opportunist
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Tension 1
Biography
Yann Moix attended primary school and secondary, Orleans , where he obtained a Bachelor Science .
He continued his studies at the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Reims (class of 1992 ). He also studied philosophy at the University of Reims, philosophy . He is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris (class of 1995 ): its memory under the leadership of Jean-Noel Jeanneney , is dedicated to the city of Vienna (Austria).
In 1992-1993, he completed his military service: first at Angers (military training of reserve officers in Engineering), then Draguignan (School of Application of artillery) in Verdun (aspiring and sub- lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment of Artillery Navy ). Thereafter, it is a reserve officer with the rank of lieutenant until 1997.
Yann Moix is "discovered" in 1993 by Bernard-Henri Levy and recognized in particular by Philippe Sollers , Jean-Edern Hallier and Pierre Assouline .
His first novel, Jubilations skyward , receives the Prix Goncourt's first novel ( 1996 ), the price François Mauriac of the French Academy and the price Air Inter Europe First Novel. This is the first part of the trilogy of mad love, which also includes Cemeteries are fields of flowers (TSX Hachette Foundation) (1997) and Anissa Corto (2000).
Yann Moix is a member of the College of 'Pataphysics , decorated the first phalle 139 of the Order of the Great Gidouille.
In 2007 preface the book Blanrue Paul-Eric Le Monde against itself: against anthology about the Jews, Judaism and Zionism. Thereafter he distanced himself from Paul-Eric Blanrue due to a disagreement over the positioning of the Gayssot Act .
In an interview with Alain Soral in 2010 Blanrue said: "Less correct however was the attitude of Yann Moix, who was my friend for ten years and had even prefaced one of my books on Judaism after. signed boldly, he had a sudden panic attack and withdrew without telling me, accusing me of making into a trap! On the site of The Rules of the Game, the journal of his mentor BHL This miser said he did not know the name of Faurisson appeared on the petition and therefore he could not morally remain "
Since January 2011, Yann Moix makes a weekly satirical cartoon in Le Point .
It is also part of the band of writers of the show is going s'gêner led by Laurent Ruquier on Europe 1 .
Since November 2011, Yann Moix is to honor the Member Institute lévinassiennes studies .
Moix also wrote songs, including Arielle Dombasle and Diane Tell .
Every last Sunday of the month at 11 am, Yann Moix animates a seminar cinema Saint-Germain, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in the journal The Rules of the Game in which he worked since 1995. In 2011-2012, the seminar was devoted to Kafka. In 2012-2013, Francis Ponge.
From 2011 , he was part of the jury prize Saint-Germain .
Since 2008, every Thursday, Yann Moix is the series of literary Figaro .
It supports the candidacy of François Bayrou in the French presidential election in 2012
He went to North Korea in 2012 to deliver its view on the region .
His work
Literary
Jubilations skyward recounts how a schoolboy of twelve years, Nestor, struck at the village school by the beauty of a certain Helen, it continues his desperate love until the age of eighty years. In an attempt to seduce her, he will make sure that every day of his life, Helen was surprised by it.
Shunned by critics at its output Cemeteries are fields of flowers (selected for the Prix Renaudot ) is a much darker novel. Following the accidental death of his children on the highway, a man of forty, Gilbert Dandieu, remained that day at home, is living a nightmare with his wife, a survivor of the tragedy, in which it is to take responsibility of their death.
Anissa Corto (selected for the Prix Goncourt ), tried in his "too feminine" time by François Nourissier is a tribute Proustian to the inaccessible woman. The narrator, whose job is to put on the costume Donald Duck at Disneyland Park , is believing for three hundred pages that couple with the Algerian part of the Porte de Clignancourt in Paris , when the latter to ignore its existence.
Moix then move to a Trilogy of the modern world, where Podium (2002) (shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt) Partouz (2004) and Hall (2006) respectively denounce easy fame and loss of identity, sexual frustration and terrorism and the difficulty of being an adult.
Podium recounts the misadventures of a lookalike Claude François , Frédéric Bernard, who is the star of a new Christ .
Partouz the novel by Yann Moix most controversial linking Islamic terrorists' of Al-Qaeda in the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the fear of sexual pleasure from these terrorists.
Pantheon , a hymn to François Mitterrand , is an autobiographical work in which Yann Moix recounts her childhood abuse.
His book Death and Life of Edith Stein poses among others the question of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity .
In 2007, Moix published off-trade a personal tribute to Judaism entitled Apprentice Jewish, first published in the journal The Rules of the Game, directed by Bernard-Henri Levy. This is already in the same journal that had published his first Moix texts devoted to Gombrowicz , Fellini , Pasolini and his first pamphlets directed notably against Alexander Garden , Marc-Édouard Nabe , Amélie Nothomb and Bernard Tapie .
Yann Moix also published in 2004 a book of poems, Transfusion , the recurring themes of terrorism , women, sex and death.
He also worked regularly in Defector, Elle, The Express, The Event Thursday, Rules of the Game, La Revue des Deux Mondes, Marianne, here, hell, Madame Figaro, Le Figaro Magazine, Le Figaro, First Paris , TF1 , Europe 1 , France Inter , Paris Match, VSD, and once at Infinity Philippe Sollers (1996).
Cinematographic work
Yann Moix realized Podium , in which we find in the leading role the Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde . The film has collected four million viewers, was nominated five times for Caesar in 2004 and was awarded the Robert Enrico staging (2004) and the award of the first French work of French Film (2004).
His second film Cinéman , released in 2009, was a failure on the business plan and received the Gerard 's worst film.
Since then, he started for the big screen adaptation of Journey to the End of the Night by Celine , whose output was in 2010 .
Yann Moix also played for Jean-Pierre Mocky .
Reception of his work
The work of Yann Moix raises very different critics. The side of the "supporters" of the work of Moix, François Busnel wrote in L'Express that Jubilations to heaven was "one of the greatest novels of the early twentieth century." For the magazine read , Death and Life of Edith Stein "revolutionized a genre as antiquated as hagiography." For Le Figaro Magazine , Fifty Years in the skin of Michael Jackson is a book "zebra intuitions sometimes really great " . As for Hall, he was elected by Paris Match among the ten novels (including platform and the Kindly Ones) who "gave a French stamp in the new century" . Point compared to Tarantino and the Figaro sees him as a novel . But Télérama the well considered a "mediocre writer and filmmaker bad" , La Voix du Nord evokes a "writer who talks a lot without saying anything and sorely lacking in class" and Les Inrockuptibles sees in him that a "scam" with "these useless articles written in five minutes, but appear disguised as books" . His film Cinéman is probably to this day, his most criticized by the press.
Controversial topics
It creates controversy on 1 February 2010 by publishing an excerpt from his forthcoming book The Pack in the journal The Rules of the Game under the title "I like Polanski and I hate Switzerland " , , treating the Switzerland of " whore "and" Gestapoland "and" useless country "," no "and" fundamentally anti-Semitic "and a day later in the newspaper Le Matin its citizens "soft bastards . " Dated 2 February 2010 , the text is removed at the request of the author . The French press in Belgium and France begins to relate the information and the Embassy of France in Switzerland issued a press release dissociating themselves from the author saying about the book: "can rightly think it would have been better it seemed the point . "
Yann Moix broadcast later on 5 February 2010 a text on her eviction from the social network Facebook , entitled "How Facebook has removed me," after apparently denounced by people being felt offended by his anti-Swiss connection, About the author fails to mention in his open letter . On 8 February 2010 the entire page is back on the website Facebook . End of April 2010, it is still noted for its attacks against Zemmour in Here " Eric Zemmour is a bastard. Yes, the bastard Sartrean sense. Someone who prefers the comfort of the chaos, the sun to rain and holiday work. In the case of Zemmour, it gives a shameful Jew who believes that his French citizenship comes before Jewishness, which I think is an aberration! "
In 2010, he appeared as one of the signatories of a petition to repeal the law Gayssot alongside Robert Faurisson , Noam Chomsky , Dieudonné and right-wing activists . Although opposed to the law, he says he was deceived about the nature of the initiators of the petition and do not support . Rue89 and blog Monde.fr extreme right expressed doubts its explanation, unlike Charlie Hebdo journalist and Bruno Roger-Petit who argue.
In 2007, a book preface Paul-Eric Blanrue , revisionist , calling itself The World against itself - Anthology About against the Jews, Judaism and Zionism . This preface, which is based on Peguy (friend and defender of the Jews and a master of Moix) is a condemnation of anti-Semitism.