Tv presenter and author Bernard Pivot, who obtained thousands and thousands of French individuals studying due to his present “Apostrophes”, died Monday within the Paris area on the age of 89.
The dying of this nice defender of the French language was introduced to AFP by his daughter Cécile Pivot.
Remembered with a ebook in a single hand and his glasses within the different, Bernard Pivot additionally introduced this system “Bouillon de tradition” and arranged from 1985 the Dicos d’or, a spelling championship which rapidly grew to become worldwide.
Becoming a member of the Goncourt Academy in 2004, he grew to become its president in 2014 and withdrew on the finish of 2019.
“Literature is struggling an immense loss. He’s, in my eyes, a type of mediators for whom I might say that in Europe additionally an previous man who dies is a library that burns,” wrote the Franco-Congolese author Alain Mabanckou on X.
The primary variety of his flagship present, “Apostrophes”, was broadcast on public tv on January 10, 1975. This program that he hosted reside was unbeatable on Friday evenings. We snicker so much, we compete in wit, we smoke and drink, we insult one another, we kiss… The general public loves it, the ebook gross sales comply with.
The giants of letters comply with each other on this new type of salon the place Pivot is aware of the way to create intimacy and convey collectively unbelievable duos.
Comic François Cavanna tries to silence American author Charles Bukowski, useless drunk, with a well-known “Bukowski, I’m going to punch you within the face!” », to which Pivot provides: “Shut up…”
The author and dissident of the Soviet regime Alexander Solzhenitsyn defends “The Gulag Archipelago” and his memoirs. Marguerite Duras admits to him: “We drink as a result of God doesn’t exist”.
Sagan, Barthes, Nabokov, Bourdieu, Eco, Le Clézio, Modiano, Levi-Strauss and even President Mitterrand will probably be his friends. In 1987, he clandestinely interviewed Lech Walesa in Poland.
“Apostrophes” lasted fifteen years, from 1975 to 1990, adopted by thousands and thousands of viewers. And sure extracts nonetheless have nice success on the web.
So when the case arose in January 2020 affecting the author Gabriel Matzneff, a French writer who benefited from nice indulgence whereas he had sexual relations with minors, we rewatched quite a lot of a broadcast from March 1990 through which he was invited.
Additionally on the set, the Quebec novelist Denise Bombardier then opposed Gabriel Matzneff. “If there’s a actual intercourse training instructor, it’s Gabriel Matzneff, he willingly offers classes,” says Bernard Pivot playfully, presenting the writer as a “collector of ladies”.
“Mr. Matzneff appears pitiful to me,” replies Denise Bombardier, the one one on the set to fret concerning the author’s minor conquests and judging that he would have been “accountable to the courts” if he didn’t didn’t have “a literary aura”.
“There are limits even to literature,” she nonetheless declares.
With 30 years of hindsight, the sequence is surprising. “At the moment, morality comes earlier than literature. Morally, it’s progress,” Bernard Pivot will defend.
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