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Robert Merle

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Robert Merle


Born
in Tebessa, Algeria
August 28, 1908

Died
March 28, 2004

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Born in Tebessa located in ,what was then, the French colony of Algeria. Robert Merle and his family moved to France in 1918. Merle wrote in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote. He has also written a 13 book series of historical novels, Fortune de France. Recreating 16th and 17th century France through the eyes of a fictitious Protestant doctor turned spy, he went so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslatable.

His novels Un animal doué de la raison (A Sentient Animal, 1967), a stark Cold War satire inspired by John Lilly's studies of dolphins and the Caribbean Crisis, and Malevil (1972), a post-apocalyptic story, were both translated into English and filmed, the former as ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 25,536 ratings · 1,836 reviews · 121 distinct works • Similar authors
La mort est mon métier
4.36 avg rating — 7,850 ratings — published 1952 — 12 editions
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Malevil
4.26 avg rating — 5,879 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions
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Les hommes protégés
4.10 avg rating — 1,771 ratings — published 1974
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Fortune de France (Fortune ...
4.12 avg rating — 1,587 ratings — published 1977 — 13 editions
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The Day of the Dolphin
3.88 avg rating — 1,227 ratings — published 1967 — 66 editions
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L'île
4.22 avg rating — 1,041 ratings — published 1962 — 57 editions
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Week-end à Zuydcoote
3.95 avg rating — 745 ratings — published 1949 — 48 editions
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Madrapour
3.77 avg rating — 776 ratings — published 1979 — 30 editions
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En nos vertes années (Fortu...
4.18 avg rating — 635 ratings — published 1979 — 34 editions
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Paris, ma bonne ville (Fort...
4.35 avg rating — 593 ratings — published 1980 — 30 editions
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Series by Robert Merle

Fortune de France En nos vertes années Paris, ma bonne ville Le Prince que voilà La violente amour La Pique du jour La Volte des vertugadins
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Malevil: Band 1 Malevil: Band 2
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“Man is the only animal species capable of conceiving the notion of his own disappearance, and the only one capable of the despair that notion brings. What a strange race: so savagely determined to destroy itself, so savagely intent on preserving itself.”
― Robert Merle, Malevil
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“(رودلف لانگ به بازجوی آمریکایی) میدانید جهودها برای من شکل یک واحد را داشتند، نه شکل موجودات انسانی را. فکر من فقط روی جنبه‌ی فنی وظیفه‌ام متمرکز می‌شد. و اضافه کردم: کم و بیش مثل خلبانی که بمب‌هایش را روی شهری ول میکند.”
― Robert Merle, La mort est mon métier
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“Never go to sea without a porpoise”
― Robert Merle, The Day of the Dolphin
tags: jokes, porpoises, puns
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