French writer, journalist, screenwriter and actor Jean-Claude Carrière died in Paris on February 8 at the age of eighty-nine in his sleep for natural reasons.
Carrier was a true big name, but he was humble enough to be a storyteller. He wrote sixty film scripts and eighty books, collaborated with great directors such as Louis Mahler, Louis Buñuel, Andrey Vajda, Miloš Forman, confronted great intellectuals such as Umberto Echo, played big stars such as Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau, and adapted novels by top writers such as Françoise Sagan, Gunte Glass, and Milan Kundera.
His film business cards include "The Charm of Bourgeois Prudence", "The Maid's Diary", "Tin Drum", "Unbearable Lightness of Life", "The Return of Martin Gehr" and "Silano de Bergerac".
Rong Rong's translation of "The Age of Utopia", Guo Liangting's translation of "Walking with Vulnerability" and Wu Yaling's translation of Echo and Carrie's dialogue "Don't Want to Get Rid of the Book" have been published in Chinese mainland.
Another writer with the same surname, Jean, died in 2005 with the 1972 Goncourt Prize winner Jean Carrière. Zhu Yansheng's translation of his award-winning novel The Sparrow Eagle of Ma'e was published in 1992.
(Kang Wei)
Author: Kang Wei
Source: China Reading Daily
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