Yaruch Bann
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Yaruch Bann is a French artist. Born in 1931 in Arcachon, France, he is mainly known for having tried every little kind of art: literature, music, singing, painting, cinema but also what he considers as minor arts, like, for instance, video games.
He is often called The Never-Satisfied Man ("L'homme qui prend ses oreilles pour des girafes" in French), because of the fact he is always looking for a new activity horizon; he is famous for his work in numerous other fields: mathematics, linguistics, mechanics, etc.
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[edit] Music
Since the 1950s, Yaruch Bann has been leading a rock band called Je vais manger une pizza à Arcachon. This name is a reference to Bann's work in linguistics, having offered a new graphic sign called the a trilong, which stands for three [a],and can be used in the sentence Je vais manger une pizza à Arcachon, which is sometimes written like this :Je vais manger une pizzarcachon. The most of his songs are some kind of violent nihilistic pamphlets against Bourgeoisie. The better examples are probably these ones:
""L'amant du pont des amants" 1963
"L'amant des amants du pont" 1964
"Le pont des amants de l'amant" 1965
"Je la chanterai jamais, ta chanson pourrie" 1965
[edit] Literature
Although Bann's work in literature is not really famous beyond France, numerous french writers and teachers claim how influent he has been on their own writing and thinking. Some of them talk about a "Roman Bannien", a new genre theorized by Etylom Fnuk Fnuk, the most famous novel Yaruch Bann ever wrote. Influenced by classicism, picaresque novel, baroque, Nouveau Roman and trip-hop music, it is characterized by an unprecised narrative, vague and distant characters, an incomprehensible style and a quite puzzling conclusion. For instance, it is impossible to say whether the word "Etylom", used about one hundred times in the novel, stands for a character, a place, a chapter or the period between Nero's birth and World War II.
Nevertheless, Yaruch Bann did not shyly stay in one genre during his whole life. He also wrote more traditionnal novels, among which the inescapable Edmund et les ours explosifs definitely inaugurated his author in french literary patrimony.
[edit] Cinema
"Bann's way to write films has always shocked and always will."
The word from Edmond Pénélope is now famous, and maybe more relevant than ever. Yaruch Bann has always seen cinema as a "visible literature" and an "illustrated music", as he said in a fateful speech told in 1976 at the Collège de France, one of the most eminent intellectual institutions in France. Among the numerous films Bann wrote and directed, we can remember Le héros meurt à la fin, Une heure trente d'ennui and Le bon côté, c'est que les sièges du cinéma sont confortables. There is another piece that Bann himself wishes he had not directed, Napoléon est né avant Jésus Christ. He once said in a famous magazine:
"Napoléon est né avant Jésus Christ actually was a mistake: the whole plot bases on a historic imprecision, and consequently the following was doomed to be uncredible and ridiculous. Too bad for the characters, yet I really loved my speaking suit-case."
[edit] Quotes
-"Point de rancune dans un coeur pur, car le long grief est fils de Satan." ("No rancor in a pure heart, because long grief is the son of Satan")
-"L'amour n'est pas un poisson. C'est un sentiment." ("Love is not a fish. It is a feeling").
-"Deux choses me font peur: les chouettes et l'intolérance." ("Two things scare me: owls and intolerance")
