Gilbert Adair (29 December 1944-8 December 2011) was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. He wrote for Sight & Sound in the late 1970s and 1980s, editing the magazine’s Double Takes column in the mid-80s under the pseudonym ‘Heurtebise’.
He was subsequently known for translating Georges Perec’s postmodern novel A Void, for writing the novel which was adapted as Love and Death on Long Island (1997), and for self-adapting the novel which became Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2003).
Articles by Gilbert Adair
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Dreaming The Dreamers: Gilbert Adair on working with Bernardo Bertolucci
Critic turned screenwriter Gilbert Adair recalls the experience of adapting his first novel The Holy Innocents as The Dreamers, Bernardo Bertolucci’s portrait of three young cinema lovers caught up in the political turmoil of 1968 Paris.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
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The rubicon and the rubik cube: exile, paradox and Raúl Ruiz (from The Gilbert Adair files)
The late critic and author on exile, paradox and Raúl Ruiz, from our Gilbert Adair tribute trove.
Friday, December 23, 2011
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The Gilbert Adair files: Double takes – ‘Heurtebise’
Adair’s pseudonymous contributions to Sight & Sound’s Double Takes column, from our Gilbert Adair tribute trove.
Friday, December 23, 2011
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The Gilbert Adair files: The Nautilus and the nursery
Roland Barthes’s [sic] April Fools paean to the Carry On cycle, from our Gilbert Adair tribute trove.
Friday, December 23, 2011
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