Emmanuel Pipistrellian

Emmanuel Pipistrellian (b.1957) is a French novelist and playwright

Pipistrellian was born into a middle class family in a small town outside Marseilles before his family moved to Paris thanks to his father's procuring a job as a fur coat salesman. Emmanuel left school at seventeen to work with his father, teaching himself Italian, Spanish and particularly German in the evenings, a language he frequently writes in. He also took time to introduce himself to literature and art the likes of Dante and Edvard Munch, two of his personal favourites, and today contributes extensively to magazines and related publications on art and aesthetic theory.

After having his first few art reviews published in Belgium, a country to which he travelled on business with his father, Pipistrellian decided to concentrate on writing short fiction and then persevered through months and even years of being ignored to finally have his second novel Sicatrice published in 1982. It caused a literary storm albeit in very small circles thanks to its experimentational quality and bizarre humour, traits that Pipistrellian would keep into the present day. Cancellare (1987) followed to somewhat lesser applause and then Mon Oncle(1994) a book about a chef in the French resistance during the second world war caused a law suit from a friend of the Pipistrellian family who believed it was based on him.

Throughout this period, Pipstrellian also experimented with writing plays but dedicated himself to "bringing the stage back to young people" by only having these works performed by students in tiny youth-driven theatres.

Pipistrellian twice attempted [...] and spent some time in a mental institution in Brugges before moving to the east coast of Ireland to begin work on his fifth novel, expected late 2005.

Bibliography

• 1977 La Fend
• 1982 Sicatrice
• 1987 Cancellare
• 1994 Mon Oncle