Gustave Aimard
Gustave Aimard is the pseudonym of Olivier Gloux, novelist French born in 1818 with Paris where he died the June 20th 1883.
After an adventurous life in America, in particular as trapper and gold digger, he becomes writer; its speciality was the novels of the American West. As popular, in its time, as Eugene Sweats and Paul Féval, it wrote an about sixty novels. He is the author, in particular, of the Trappers of Arkansas in 1858 and the gangsters of Arizona in 1882.
In 1879, appears under the double signature of Gustave Aimard and Jules Berlioz d' Auriac, Jim the Indian , like eleven other novels published in the Degorce-Cadot editor. These novels were however appeared first once in the Brunet editor, under the only signature of Jules Berlioz d' Auriac. There would thus have been monopolization of works by Aimard, offering in exchange its celebrity to a Jules Berlioz d' Auriac who did not have his. The situation becomes complicated when it is discovered, with Simon Jeune, specialist in these questions, that the novels of Jules Berlioz d' Auriac would undoubtedly be due, actually, with the feather of American authors, translation and adaptation of dime novels little known.
External bonds
- One finds a biography of the author and analyzes of his works, as several works on line on the site the Novel of adventures
- '' Jim the Indian '' in full text
- '' Aventure, ideology and representation of the Indian world at Gustave Aimard '' (2003) by Emmanuel Dubosq.
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