Les Cent Livres des Hommes

Les Cent Livres des Hommes (ORTF, 1969-1973) was a series of literary programs created by Claude Santelli and Françoise Verny, and produced notably by Santelli, Jean Archimbaud, and Serge Moati. Planned for one hundred episodes but completed at thirty-nine, the series aimed to introduce great literary works, 'chefs-d’œuvre', to a younger audience through a mix of dramatization, reading, and documentary techniques. It marked a transfer of cultural legitimacy from writers and critics to a generation of television producers, offering a new model of educational and creative literary broadcasting - 'télévision d’auteur'.

• Ep 1

  1.Le Petit Prince de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  07-06-197033m

  'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. An introduction to the poetic and philosophical universe of Saint-Exupéry, blending analysis and adaptation of his masterpiece.

• Ep 2

  2.Le Petit Chose

  03-02-1971

  'Little Good-For-Nothing' or 'Little What's-His-Name' by Alphonse Daudet.

• Ep 3

  3.Le Noeud de vipères

  07-04-197150m

  'The Knot of Vipers' by François Mauriac. A reading of Mauriac's novel that combines personal accounts with adapted scenes.

• Ep 4

  4.La Chartreuse de Parme

  17-11-197175m

  'The Charterhouse of Parma' by Stendhal.

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  5.Du côté de chez Swann

  22-12-1971

  'Swann's Way' by Marcel Proust.

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  6.A la recherche du temps perdu

  22-12-197160m

  A realistic and poetic evocation of Marcel Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time.' Halfway between an audiovisual adaptation and a portrait of the dandyish and reclusive writer, all in...

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  7.Martin Eden

  24-01-197251m

  'Martin Eden' by Jack London. Claude Santelli and Jean-Louis Muller interview Professor Las Vergnas, a specialist in American literature, who contextualises the book within the aut...

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• Ep 8

  8.Le portrait de Socrate

  26-01-197260m

  The portrait of Socrates.

• Ep 9

  9.L'exode

  23-02-1972

  The biblical Book of Exodus.

• Ep 10

  10.Les Souffrances du jeune Werther

  22-03-197260m

  'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

• Ep 11

  11.L'île mystérieuse

  15-04-1972

  'The Mysterious Island' by Jules Verne.

• Ep 12

  12.L'Enfance de Gorky

  26-04-197255m

  'My Childhood' by Maxim Gorky.

• Ep 13

  13.Gargantua

  24-05-197260m

  'Gargantua' by François Rabelais.

• Ep 14

  14.Jude l'Obscur

  26-07-197230m

  'Jude the obscure' by Thomas Hardy.

• Ep 15

  15.Robinson Crusoe

  20-12-197260m

  'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe.

• Ep 16

  16.Histoire de la Révolution

  30-07-1973

  'History of the Revolution' by Jules Michelet.

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  17.Alice aux pays des merveilles

  28-12-197360m

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll. This program explores Wonderland from every angle: iconic scenes in which Brigitte Fossey portrays a mischievous Alice, reading...

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