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Jacques Serguine

ジャック・セルギーヌ

Jacques Serguine

Aliases: Jacques Gouzerh / Jacques Jean Marie Gouzerh

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1934-06-09 (Neuilly-sur-Seine)
Died
2023-04-10 (Nemours) age 88
Nationality
French
Languages
French
Residence History
Avon (near Fontainebleau)

Career

Occupations
writer, essayist
Active Years
1959-2023
Influenced By
Jean Paulhan, Georges Lambrichs
Nominations
Prix Médicis nomination (missed by one vote)

Awards

Prix Fénéon
1959
Work: Les Fils de Rois
Organization: Prix Fénéon Committee
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Les Fils de Rois

1959 novel

Serguine's first novel.

human relations

Cruelle Zélande

1978 novel

Famous sensual novel.

sensuality

Éloge de la fessée

1973 essay

Famous essay on erotic fantasy.

eroticism

Bibliography

  • Les Fils de rois (1959)
  • Le Petit Hussard (1960)
  • Les Saints innocents (1962)
  • Mano l'Archange (1962)
  • Les Falaises d'or (1963)
  • Manuel et Gentille (1964)
  • Les Jours (1967)
  • Les Barbares (1969)
  • La Mort confuse (1970)
  • Les abois (1971)
  • Les Russes et les Bretons (1975)
  • Cruelle Zélande (1978)
  • Je suis de la nation du loup (1985)
  • Je n'ai pas fini de t'aimer aujourd'hui (1989)
  • La Maison de l'Avenida (1992)
  • La Culotte de feuilles (1992)
  • Istambul Loti (1994)
  • Délit du corps (1998)
  • La Peau du chagrin (2003)
  • L'Été des jeunes filles (2006)
  • L'Attendrisseur (2007)

Adaptations

  • A Very Curious Girl (original screenplay)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
sensual depiction of human relationsHussards movement (declined)
Recurring Motifs
eroticismspanking fantasy

Legacy

French writer and essayist known for sensual and erotic works. Winner of Prix Fénéon.

In Popular Culture

  • Contributed to nobility of erotic fantasy

Quotes

  • If writing is the sine qua non medium of the writer, the man of letters has a career, I am a writer, I have always been, good or bad, it belongs to others to decide. I write because I have no other way to speak. I do not like the attendance of other writers on the whole. My friends say that I am an uncouth bear, an animal which, with time, has become my totem, so I always lived on the fringe of the literary milieu.
    Source: Écrire l'Éros (2004)

Trivia

  • Noticed young by Jean Paulhan.
  • Assimilated to Hussards but declined due to politics.
  • Mano l'Archange banned for harming morals.