André Pieyre de Mandiargues

André Pieyre de Mandiargues 14 March 1909 13 December 1991 was a French writer born in Paris He became an associate of the Surrealists and married the Italian painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis a niece of the Italian metaphysical painter Count Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis He was a particularly close friend of the painter Leonor Fini His novel La Marge 1967 Eng The Margin won the Prix Goncourt and was made into a film of the same name by Walerian Borowczyk in 1976 It is his collection of pornographic items that is featured in Borowczyks Une collection particulière Borowczyk also used Mandiargues work for the first story included in his anthology film Immoral Tales He also wrote an introduction to Anne Descloss Story of O and was a signatory to the Manifesto of the 121 His book Feu de braise 1959 was published in 1971 in an English translation by April FitzLyon called Blaze of Embers Calder and Boyars 1971 His most popular book was The Motorcycle 1963 which was adapted for the 1968 film The Girl on a Motorcycle starring a young Marianne Faithfull Mandiargues was friends with motorcycle journalist AnkeEve Goldmann who was likely the inspiration for the main character Rebecca as Goldmann was the first woman to ride a motorcycle with a onepiece leather racing suit which she designed with German manufacturer Harro Source Article André Pieyre de Mandiargues from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30