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and married the Italian painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis (a niece of the Italian metaphysical painter Count Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis). He was a particularly close friend of the painter Leonor Fini. His novel '' La Marge'' (1967; Eng: ''The Margin'') won the

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and was made into a film of the same name by

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in 1976. It is his collection of pornographic items that is featured in Borowczyk's ''Une collection particulière''. Borowczyk also used Mandiargues' work for the first story included in his

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''Immoral Tales''. He also wrote an introduction to

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's ''

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'' and was a signatory to the

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. His book ''Feu de braise'' (1959) was published in 1971 in an English translation by

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called ''Blaze of Embers'' (Calder and Boyars, 1971). His most popular book was ''The Motorcycle'' (1963), which was adapted for the 1968 film ''

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'', starring a young

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. Mandiargues was friends with motorcycle journalist

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, who was likely the inspiration for the main character 'Rebecca', as Goldmann was the first woman to ride a motorcycle with a one-piece leather racing suit, which she designed with German manufacturer Harro.

Works

* ''Le Musée noir'' (1946) * ''L'Anglais décrit dans le château fermé'' (1953) * ''Le Lis de mer'' (1956) * ''Le Belvédère'' (1958) * ''Feu de braise'' (1959) * ''La motocyclette'' (1963) * '' La Marge'' (1967) * ''Isabella Morra'' (1974) * ''Tout disparaîtra'' (1987)

, "Comment travaillent les écrivains", Paris 1978 (interview with de Mandiargues, in French) * Denise Bourdet, ''André Pieyre de Mandiargues'', dans: Visages d'aujourd'hui, Paris, Plon, 1960. *Bond David J., ''The Fiction of André Pieyre de Mandiargues'', Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1982 * Cadorel Raymond, Résurgences mexicaines dans l'œuvre de Mandiargues, Recifs, Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris III * Castant Alexandre, ''Esthétique de l'image, fictions d'André Pieyre de Mandiargues''. Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2001. *Demornex Jacqueline, ''Le Pire, c'est la neige'', Paris, Sabine Wespiesser éditeur, 2009. *Gras-Durosini Dominique, ''Mandiargues et ses récits : L'écriture en jeu ''. Paris, L'Harmattan, 2006. *Grossman Simone, ''L'œil du poète. Pieyre de Mandiargues et la peinture'', Paris-Caen, Lettres modernes-Minard, "Archives des lettres modernes" No. 273, 1999. *Laroque-Texier Sophie, ''Lecture de Mandiargues'', Paris, L'Harmattan, 2005. *Leroy Claude, ''Le mythe de la passante de Baudelaire à Mandiargues''. Paris, P.U.F., 1999. * Martellucci Filippo, ''L'occhio libro. Studio sul linguaggio dell'immagine nella poesia di Pieyre de Mandiargues'', Roma, Bulzoni, 1995. *Mallard Alain-Paul et Pieyre de Mandiargues Sibylle (dir.), ''André Pieyre de Mandiargues / Pages mexicaines", Gallimard / Maison de l'Amérique latine, 2009. *Patriarca Francesco et Pieyre de Mandiargues Sibylle, ''L'appartement''. Filigranes Éditions, 2004. *Pierre José, ''Le Belvédère Mandiargues''. Paris, Biro/ArtCurial, 1990. * Rambures, Jean-Louis de (entretien avec), ''Comment travaillent les écrivains'', Paris, Flammarion, 1978. * Stétié Salah, ''Mandiargues''. Paris, Seghers, 1978. *Stétié Salah, « Pieyre de Mandiargues André », ''Dictionnaire de poésie de Baudelaire à nos jours'' (dir. Michel Jarrety), Paris, PUF, 2001. *Ternisien Caecilia, Mandiargues. L'Entrelacs du corps et du romanesque, coll. "Savoir Lettres", éd. Hermann, 2016. ; Ouvrages collectifs, revues, catalogues *''Livres de France'', No. 9, November 1966. *''Cahiers Renaud-Barrault'', No. 86, 1974 (sur ''Isabella Morra''). *''Cahiers du 20^e siècle'', Paris, Klincksieck, nº 6, 1976. *''Revue des Sciences Humaines'', No. 193, 1984-1. *''Lendemains'', nº 91/92, Tübingen, Stauffenburg Verlag, 1998. *''De la bibliothèque de Bona et André Pieyre de Mandiargues'', Paris, catalogue de la Librairie galerie Emmanuel Hutin, 2005. * *''André Pieyre de Mandiargues. De'' La Motocyclette ''à'' Monsieur Mouton, sous la direction d'Yves Baudelle et de Caecilia Ternisien, ''Roman 20-50'', No. 5, April 2009. *''André Pieyre de Mandiargues'', ''Europe'', No. 981-982, January–February 2011. *''Plaisir à Mandiargues'', sous la direction de Marie-Paule Berranger et de Claude Leroy, Paris, Hermann, 2011. *''L'Œil d'un poète'', collection André et Bona Pieyre de Mandiargues, catalogue de la vente chez Christie's, Paris, 24 October 2011.

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