For years, he was an executive then CEO of Gillette France at the same time as he composed one of the most important works of contemporary theater. From “to the overthrow” on board “, he described with a sharp look at the position of man in the economic field. He died Sunday at 95 years old.
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His life has embraced history over almost a century, and he made it one of the most important works in contemporary theater. Michel Vinaver, father of actress Anouk Grinberg, died Sunday, May 1, at the age of 95. Author of about twenty pieces, he will remain in particular as the great playwright of “Homo Economicus”, the meticulous analyst of the evolution of capitalism over the XX e century. A capitalism he knew from the inside, for having been, for thirty years, managerial manager then CEO of Gillette France.
of overthrowing over board, from work and days on the job request, his pieces, which have been mounted by important directors like Roger Planchon, Antoine Vitez, Alain Françon, Jacques Jacques Lassalle or Christian Schiaretti, have inscribed as never before man in the economic field. But also in that of history, whether it be the Korean War, the Algerian War, September 11 or, more recently, the Bettencourt affair, considered “a history of France “.
Michel Vinaver, his real name Michel Grinberg, was born on January 13, 1927, in a family of Russian Jewish emigrants. His father, antique dealer, held a store called to old Russia, and the family bathed in the Russian emigration environment, including the maternal grandfather of Michel Vinaver, Maxime Vinaver, was one of the figures: founder of KD , the Democratic Constitutional Party, in Russia in 1905, he continued to work with his leader, Pavel Milioukov.
Michel Vinaver has always said that Judeity, on the other hand, was completely absent in his family, on the religious level as in the identity level. “It was with Vichy that I learned that I was a Jew,” he said in an interview in January 2009. The family fled in 1941, thanks to King Farouk, who frequented the paternal store. Michel Vinaver finds himself a high school student in New York, then voluntarily joined the French army in 1944-1945. He spends a year of barracks in barracks, without fighting, and signs his first gesture of objection to what he considers to be “the absurdity” of military life.
Meeting with Camus
Back in the United States, he studies English and American literature, translated The Waste Land, from T.S. Eliot. These humanities, which were also very focused on the study of ancient Greek civilization, “marked it for life”. It was in New York that he met Albert Camus, that he “admired without reservation”. Camus encourages him to write and publish at Gallimard’s first novel by Michel Vinaver, Lataume, in 1950, and the second, the objector, in 1951.
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