Pierre Bost (5 September 1901 â 6 December 1975) was a French screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. Primarily a novelist until the 1940s, he was known mainly as a screenwriter after 1945, often collaborating with Jean Aurenche.
In his 1954 article Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français ("A Certain Trend of French Cinema"), François Truffaut attacked the current state of French films, singling out certain screenwriters and producers. The screenwriting team of Bost and Aurenche were criticized for their style of literary adaptations in particular, which Truffaut considered old-fashioned.
The journalist Jacques-Laurent Bost was Pierre Bost's brother.
Selected filmography
Bibliography
- Hercule et mademoiselle, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1924, 218 p.
- L'imbécile, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1924
- Prétextat, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1925, 221 p.
- Voyage de l'esclave, Paris, ÃÂditions Marcelle Lesage, 1926, 83 p.
- Crise de croissance, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1926, 218 p.
- àla porte, Paris, Au sans pareil, 1927, 126 p.; coll. ë Le Conciliabule des trente û
- Faillite, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1928, 252 p.
- Anaïs, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1930, 218 p.
- Briançon, Grenoble, ÃÂditions Dardelet, 1930, 96 p.
- Mesdames et messieurs, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1931, 253 p.
- Le Scandale, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1931, 415 p.
- Faux numéros, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1932, 253 p.
- Un grand personnage, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1935 (réimpr. 1961), 221 p.
- Homicide par imprudence, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1936, 216 p.
- La haute fourche, Paris, ÃÂditions de Minuit, 1945, 77 p.
- Monsieur Ladmiral va bientôt mourir, Paris, ÃÂditions Gallimard, 1945 ; réédition 2005, coll. ë L'Imaginaire û, 102 p. ()
- Porte-Malheur, Paris, ÃÂditions Le Dilettante, (éd. or. 1932) 2009 (1re éd. 1932), 160 p. ()
- Un an dans un tiroir, Paris, ÃÂditions Le Dilettante, (éd. or. 1945) 2010 (1re éd. 1945), 128 p. ()
As co-author:
- Pierre Bost, Pierre Darbon and Pierre Quet, La Puissance et la Gloire, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1952, 221 p.
- Claude-André Puget and Pierre Bost, Un nommé Judas, Paris, La Table Ronde, 1956, 191 p.
- Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Claude Brule and Georges Neveux, Molière pour rire et pour pleurer, Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1973, 258 p.
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