Jacques Spitz is a French writer (born in 1896 in Algérie - deceased in 1963).

Polytechnician, consulting engineer, he wrote several science-fiction novels of an astonishing modernism. Cynical, often pessimistic, influenced by surrealism, its tone points out that of Pierre Boulle. In spite of the undeniable quality of some of its novels, he is largely forgotten today and its novels are almost untraceable.

Works

• Undecided Cruising, 1926.
• the Setting in Folds, Editions of the Home, 1928.
• Wind of the World, Gallimard, 1928.
• the Dumb Voyage, Gallimard, 1930.
• Velvet Ladies, Gallimard, 1933.
• Anguish of the Earth, Gallimard, 1935. Republished with the ED. Septimus in 1977, illustrations of Moebius.
• Escaped prisoners of year 4000, Gallimard, 1936, republished in 1948.
• the Elastic Man, Gallimard Nrf, 1938, reappeared at Marabout in 1974.
• the War of the Flies, Gallimard, 1938, republished at Shades in 1998.
• the Experiment of Dr. Mops, Gallimard, 1939, reappeared at Presses Pocket/Robert Laffont, 1972.
• the Piece " Z" , Jean Vigneau, 1942.
• the Signals of the Sun, Jean Vigneau, 1943, republished at Slow train, in Hunters of Dream, prefaces of Serge Lehman, 2006.
• the Eye of the Purgatory, 1945, reappeared at Robert Laffont, 1972 then Presses Pocket, 1980.
• the Forest of the Seven-Magpies, Éditions Marshal, 1946.
• This is a Drama, the Editions of New France, 1947.
• Albine with the Breast piece, Éditions Debresse, 1956.

News

• Year 3000, appeared in V-Magazine, nº287 of June 11th, 1950, illustrated by Guy Sabran.
• the Enigma of V51, Supplement to the V-Magazine nº326 of January 7th, 1951, illustrated by Guy Sabran.
• the Planet of the Invisible Women, appeared in V-Magazine nº? and republished in the Bulletin of the Amateurs of Old Anticipation and Fantastic Literature nº October 4th, th and th 1990.
• Atomic Naval Battle, published in the collection Sea salt, humor in the navy , with the Editions National marine, Paris, 1946.

New novel

• Alpha of the Centaur. The manuscript of work was given to the BNF (dimension NAF 28.099) by the beneficiaries of Jacques Spitz. According to Pierre Versins, this novel had been published in 1945 then put at the rammer when its editor had been plundered by the Germans.

Quotations

External bonds

• Jacques Spitz on the site of the BDFI
• Entered of a manuscript with the BNF
• Article of Phoenix Mag " With the turning of the lapse of memory: Albert Robida and Jacques Spitz" by Erwelyn
• http://chroniques.bnf.fr/frameset.php?src1=numero_courant/collections/menu_gauche.php&src2=numero_courant/collections/acquisitions.htm&m1=elOne&m2=E1&m3=1 Entered of a newspaper of Spitz to the BNF]
• Critical of the Eye of the Purgatory by Denis Philippe, 1972
• Extracts from the Literary Barber of April 8th, 1950
• a list of the authors of [[science fiction] French of Jules Verne with Rene Barjavel]
• Réflexions on the French Science fiction (in English)
• Critique anonymity of the Eye of the Purgatory