Alphonse Boudard

Boudard, Alphonse (1925-2000). The native argot of Boudard's sardonic autobiographies brings to life characters met in the Resistance: Bleubite (1966), Les Combattants du petit bonheur (1977), Le Corbillard de Jules (1979); as criminal and convict: La Métamorphose des Cloportes (1962), La Cerise (1963); as consumptive: L'Hôpital (1972); or screen-writer: Cinoche (1974). His education, sentimental and otherwise, is depicted in Le Café du pauvre (1983), L'Education d'Alphonse (1987); and other scenes of contemporary life in Le Banquet des léopards (1980), Les Enfants de chœur (1982), La Fermeture (1986). La Méthode à Mimile (with Luc Étienne, 1970) is an argotic primer.

— Stephen Noreiko