Paul-Louis Rossi

Paul Louis Rossi (born 4 November 1933) is a French critic and poet.

Life
Paul Louis Rossi was born in Nantes, Brittany on 4 November 1933. His grandparents Queffelec spoke Breton and Cornish. His father was Italian, of the Venice area. He was shot by the Germans in 1943 in Tübingen, when Rossi was ten years old.

Rossi published a booklet entitled Liturgy for the night in 1958, during the Algerian War. He came to work early to Paris; he wanted to become a journalist. He wrote music reviews: in Jazz Magazine and in the Cahiers du jazz, and film criticism: "The Arbitrary", dedicated to Robert Bresson, published in Camera Pen. He collaborated with French Letters and the journal Change, directed by Jean-Pierre Faye. In the 1970s he made, with Jacques Roubaud, Lionel Ray, and Pierre Lartigue, exercises on the world Oulipo: The Inimaginaires. His travel book of St. Ursula was published by Gallimard in 1973.

Rossi lives in Paris.

Awards

 * 1995 Mallarmé prize

Works

 * Elévation de l'enclume (1997)
 * Escalation of the anvil (1997)
 * La Voyageuse immortelle (2001)
 * Le Voyage de Sainte-Ursule (Gallimard, 1973)
 * La Traversée du Rhin (Hachette POL, 1981)
 * Crossing the Rhine (POL Hachette, 1981)
 * Régine (Julliard, 1990)
 * Cose Naturali (Éd. Unes, 1991)
 * La Montagne de Kaolin (Julliard, 1992)
 * Le Fauteuil rouge (Julliard, 1994)
 * Le Vieil homme et la nuit (Julliard, 1997)
 * André Lambotte (ARTGO, Bruxelles, 1997)
 * La vie secrète de Fra Angelico (Bayard, 1997)
 * Cose Naturali (Éd. Ergo Pers Gent, 1997)
 * Fuscelli (Éd. Tandem, Belgique, 2000)
 * Le Fauteuil rouge (Julliard, 1994)
 * Le Vieil homme et la nuit (Julliard, 1997)
 * André Lambotte (ARTGO, Bruxelles, 1997)
 * La vie secrète de Fra Angelico (Bayard, 1997)
 * Cose Naturali (Éd. Ergo Pers Gent, 1997)
 * Fuscelli (Éd. Tandem, Belgique, 2000)
 * La vie secrète de Fra Angelico (Bayard, 1997)
 * Cose Naturali (Éd. Ergo Pers Gent, 1997)
 * Fuscelli (Éd. Tandem, Belgique, 2000)
 * Fuscelli (Éd. Tandem, Belgique, 2000)