Fabre, Michel

The unfinished quest of Richard Wright by Michel Fabre ( Book )
11 editions published between 1973 and 1993 in English and held by 1,607 libraries worldwide

The world of Richard Wright by Michel Fabre ( Book )
9 editions published between 1985 and 2009 in English and held by 1,297 libraries worldwide

From Harlem to Paris : Black American writers in France, 1840-1980 by Michel Fabre ( Book )
6 editions published between 1991 and 1993 in English and held by 1,265 libraries worldwide

Richard Wright books and writers by Michel Fabre ( Book )
10 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in English and held by 1,184 libraries worldwide

A bout de souffle ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2001 and 2007 in French and held by 1,164 libraries worldwide
A small-time criminal kills a police officer, setting in motion a tragic series of events for both himself and his American girlfriend.

The several lives of Chester Himes by Edward Margolies ( Book )
5 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,141 libraries worldwide
The Writings of Chester Himes are colored by a fascinating blend of hatred and tenderness, of hard-boiled realism and generous idealism. His life was complex, his relationships complicated. How did this gifted son of a respectable southern black family become a juvenile delinquent? How did he acquire self-esteem and a new sense of identity by writing short stories while in the Ohio state penitentiary? Drawn from his letters, notebooks, memoirs, and fiction, this straightforward account of Himes's varied, episodic life attempts to trace the origins of his significant literary gift. It details the socioeconomic, familial, and cultural background that fed his ambivalent views on race in America. His Deep South childhood, his adolescence in the Midwest, his young manhood in prison, his years as a menial laborer, his struggle as an author in California and New York City, and finally his glory days as an expatriate and celebrity in France and Spain are plumbed deeply for their effects upon his creative urges and his works. In his native country Himes is recalled more as the author of successful detective novels such as Cotton Comes to Harlem than as a practitioner of the art of fiction. In France and Spain, his adopted countries, he is regarded as a literary master. This critical biography is the bittersweet story of a troubled man who found salvation in writing.

Conversations with Richard Wright by Richard Wright ( Book )
2 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 719 libraries worldwide

Plan B : a novel by Chester B Himes ( Book )
6 editions published between 1993 and 1999 in English and French and held by 667 libraries worldwide
Tomsson Black, political visionary, business genius, and underground revolutionary, plots to avenge injustice by instigating racial turmoil. The roots of racism extend far back into his ancestry, and persecution and suffering have affected many generations of his family. Tomsson's own misfortunes are the impetus for him to found a criminal underworld whose ultimate purpose is the overflow of white society. This novel, the history of Tomsson Black and an indictment of racism in America, ends in apocalypse. It is Chester Himes's ultimate statement about the destructive power of racism and his own personal fantasy of how the American Negro, through calculated acts of violence and martyrdom, could destroy the unequal system pervading American life. However, after reaching an ideological impasse, Himes, one of the angriest writers in the black protest movement, left this novel unfinished. After his death in Spain in 1984, a rumor persisted that he had left a final, unfinished Harlem story, in which he literally destroys both his Harlem backdrop and his heroes in a violent racial cataclysm. The manuscript, entitled Plan B, is that novel. It was edited and published in France, where it was widely hailed as an unfinished masterpiece by readers and critics alike. This new edition, appearing for the first time in the United States, includes an introduction by Michel Fabre (The Sorbonne) and Robert E. Skinner (Xavier University), who have prepared Plan B for publication.

Richard Wright, a primary bibliography by Charles T Davis ( Book )
3 editions published in 1982 in English and held by 483 libraries worldwide

Conversations with Chester Himes by Chester B Himes ( Book )
3 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 353 libraries worldwide