戴思杰

戴思杰（1954年3月2日—），福建莆田人，生于四川成都，著名旅法华人作家，同时也是法国较活跃的电影导演及编剧。他的文学作品有《巴尔扎克和中国小裁缝》、《夜孔雀》等，电影导演作品有《高山庙》、《巴尔扎克与小裁缝》等。其文学作品大多数是用法文创作。

生平

戴思杰生于四川省成都市，为医生之子，1971年至1974年被下放到四川雅安接受“再教育”。1984年到法国留学，辗转进入高级电影研究学院。

2000年，戴思杰在法国推出他的第一部小说《巴尔扎克和中国小裁缝》。这部小说是用法文创作，中文译本于2003年在中国出版。

在电影创作方面，他根据自己创作的同名小说改编并执导的电影《巴尔扎克与小裁缝》曾于2002年在第55届戛纳电影节上成为“注目单元”的开幕电影首映，并获得2003年美国金球奖最佳外语片提名。

小说

《巴尔扎克与小裁缝》

《释梦人》，又译《狄先生的情结》（Le Complexe de Di）

《某夜，月未升……》

电影作品

《牛棚》

《吞月亮的人》

《第十一子》

《巴尔扎克与小裁缝》（2002）周迅、刘烨、陈坤主演

《植物学家的女儿》（2006）李小冉主演

《夜孔雀》（2016）刘亦菲主演

Dai Sijie (born 2 March 1954) is a Chinese French author and filmmaker living in France since 1984. He writes in French. His first novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written in French, was a best seller and has been translated into more than 25 languages.

Early life

Dai was born in Putian, Fujian, in 1954. His parents, Professor Dai Baoding and Professor Hu Xiaoyu, were professors of medical sciences at West China University. He grew up reading and thinking extensively. Dai excels at many things, including being a skilled tailor. The Maoist government sent him to a re-education camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974 during the Cultural Revolution. Though as the only child in the family he would have been excused, he went there with the idea of undergoing the spartan training. Much of this experience was the source of his first book. After his return, he completed his professional certificate as a teacher. He briefly taught in the No. 16 High School of Chengdu upon his enrollment to the Department of History of Sichuan University in February 1978 (so-called 77 grader), where he studied art history.

Career

In 1984, Dai left China for France on a scholarship to study at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director. Before turning to writing, he made three critically acclaimed feature-length films: China, My Sorrow (1989) (original title: Chine, ma douleur), Le mangier de lune (Moon Eater) and Tang, le onzième (The Eleventh Child). He also wrote and directed an adaptation of his novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002. He lives in Paris and writes in French.

Dai's novel, Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée (Once on a Moonless Night), was published in 2007. L'acrobatie aérienne de Confucius (The Aerial Acrobatics of Confucius) was published in 2008.

Novels

Dai's first book, Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress) (2000), was made into a movie in 2002, which he himself adapted and directed. It recounts the story of a pair of friends who become good friends with a local seamstress while spending time in a countryside village where they have been sent for "re-education" during the Cultural Revolution (see Down to the Countryside Movement). They steal a suitcase filled with illegal Western classical novels from another man being re-educated and decide to enrich the seamstress's life by exposing her to great literature. These novels also serve to sustain the two companions during this difficult time. The story principally deals with the cultural universality of great literature and its redeeming power. The novel has been translated into twenty-five languages, and finally into his mother tongue after the movie adaptation.

Dai's second book, Le Complexe de Di (The Di Complex) won the Prix Femina in 2003. It recounts the travels of a Chinese man whose philosophy has been influenced by French psychoanalytic thought. The title is a play on "le complexe d'Oedipe", or "the Oedipus complex". The English translation (released in 2005) is titled Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch.

Works

Books

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise) – 2000

Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (Le Complexe de Di) – 2003 (Prix Femina)

Once on a Moonless Night (Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée) – 2007

The Gospel According to Yong Sheng (L’Évangile selon Yong Sheng) – 2019

Les Caves du Potala, 2020

Filmography as director

China, My Sorrow (Chine, ma douleur) – 1989 (Prix Jean Vigo)

Moon Eater (Le mangeur de lune) – 1994

The Eleventh Child (Tang le onzième) – 1998

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise) – 2002

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (Les filles du botaniste) – 2006

Night Peacock (Le paon de nuit) – 2016