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A former criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experiences or from real gangsters such as Abel "the mammoth" Davos in his 1960 film Classe tous risques. In his films as well as his novels, he often championed the underworld, as did Auguste Le Breton, while praising masculine friendships and advocating the confrontation of the individual against the world.
Biography
Originally Corsican, José Giovanni was well-educated, studying at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and Lycée Janson de Sailly. He worked at several professions (logger, miner, innkeeper) before becoming a writer and film-maker. Fascinated by climbing, he was also a mountain guide, and during the Second World War was a member of Jacques Faure's Jeunesse et Montagne (Youth and Mountain) group.
In Prison
In 1945, after the Liberation, he became involved in the scene of the Quartier Pigalle, Paris, and was caught up in a racketeering venture organized by his maternal uncle with the help of his elder brother. The racket turned murderous; three people died. In 1948 Giovanni was sentenced to death (though he had himself killed no-one) along with an accomplice, Georges Accad. He however narrowly escaped the guillotine when he and Accad's sentences were commuted by President Vincent Auriol to twenty years of hard labour. He was released from prison in December 1956 and was rehabilitated in 1986 after a new trial.He died from a brain haemorrhage.
Writing
He wrote his first novel, Le Trou (The Hole), when he was 33 years old. It tells the escape he attempted from prison with other inmates in 1947. His lawyer, and writer Roger Nimier read the book to Antoine Blondin and Albert Camus through whom it was published. His style, at times strange and intentionally clumsy, does not fail to surprise the reader with its findings and its strong images, sometimes to the limit of toleration. The novel was turned into a film.In 1958 the editor Marcel Duhamel introduced Giovanni to the Série noire publishing imprint, where he was immediately noticed by the publication of three novels the same year:
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Filmography
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Category:French mystery writers Category:French film directors Category:French screenwriters Category:French people of Corsican descent Category:1923 births Category:2004 deaths
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