Sebastien japrisot biography
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Sébastien Japrisot
French author, screenwriter and film director
Sébastien Japrisot | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jean-Baptiste Rossi ()4 July Marseille, France |
| Died | 4 March () (aged&#;71) Vichy, France |
| Pen name | Sébastien Japrisot Robert Huart |
| Occupation | Author Screenwriter Film director |
| Period | – |
| Genre | Literary fiction, Crime fiction |
Sébastien Japrisot (French pronunciation:[sebastjɛ̃ʒapʁizo]; 4 July – 4 March ) was a French author, screenwriter and film director.
His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways."[1] Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Noveli