Jean Lartéguy

Jean Lartéguy is a writer and Journaliste French.

Biography

Jean Lartéguy , pseudonym of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, was born in 1920 in Lozere. It passes its license of history to Toulouse, becomes secretary of the historian Joseph Calmette.

Volunteer in October 1939. During the occupation he escapes from France in March 1942 while passing by the Spain where there will remain interned nine months lasting and joined the Free French Forces as officer with the 1st group of commandos. There will remain seven years officer of active before becoming captain of reserve. Several times decorated: Legion of Honor, Military Cross 39-45, Military Cross T.O.E., four quotations.

It was pilot (as war correspondent) and/or actor of many events during second half of the 20th century: revolution of Azerbaïdjan, war of Palestine, war of Korea (casualty to the attack of Bad cold-Heart), Indo-China, Algeria then Vietnam, revolutions in Latin America, etc It is international reporter to Paris-Press as from 1952 and received the Prix Albert London in 1955.

Its work

Topics

The Decolonization, treated as well through reports as of the novels which were inspired to him by as it saw, in particular the bitterness of combatants which was sacrificed for an ideal vision of France, while being confronted with the mediocrity and the absence of vision, of the politicians of the Fourth Republic. He explains in particular why the Indochinese populations felt betrayed, for lack of reforms however promised the shortly after the Second world war, and also the origins of OAS, through the fiasco of the Guerre of Algeria. But also the great reports which it carried out throughout the world as to the Japan and finally history as in '' Mourir for Jérusalem' '. Its message completely anticonformist and is shifted nowadays, because “awkward”, because it is, to some extent like Georges Orwell, his quasi-contemporary, at the same time anticommunist - but including/understanding the moral range of its doctrines, and pro-Westerner, while showing a major contempt of what had become the Colonial system.

Writings of Jean Lartéguy

  • the tragedy of prohibited Morocco (1957), Editions the 4 wire Aymon

  • wandering entertainers of Margeride (1962), Presses of the City, (1969), Pocket
  • the mercenaries (1963), Pocket, novel (initially appeared under the title “Of blood on the hills” , without any success, republished with the new title following the success of the “Centurions” )
  • black dreams (1963), Presses of the City, Romance
  • War of Algeria, two volumes
the centurions (1963), Pocket, Romance
  • Praetorian the (1964), Pocket, Romance
    • the Japanese folding screen (1964), Raoul Solar, report
    • yellow evil (1965), Pocket, Romance
    • a million dollars the Vietnamese soldier (1965), Raoul Solar Editor
    • Sauveterre (1966), Presses of the City, (1970), Pocket
    • the guerillas (1967), Raoul Solar, (1972) Pocket, report
    • the black dreams (1967), Pocket, Romance
    • the walls of Israel (1968), Pocket, account
    • the drums of bronze (1969), Pocket, Romance
    • These voices which come us from the sea (1969) Solar/editor
    • Any man is a civil war , two volumes
    the priest astronomer (1969), Presses of the City
  • the libertadors (1970), Presses city
    • Open letter with the good women (1972), Albin Michel
    • the Kings beggars (1975), Romance
    • Investigation into one crucifié (1976), I have Lu, Romance
    • All the gold of the devil (1976), Pocket, Romance
    • the good-bye in Saigon (1976), Pocket, report
    • the kings beggars (1977), I have Lu, Romance
    • the naked war (1977), Pocket. It is about a collection of discussions with François Poli, in autobiographical matter.
    • the shipwrecked men of the sun , three novels
    the gaur of the black river (1978), I have Lu, Romance
  • the horse of fire (1980), I have Lu, Romance
  • the celestial baron (1982), I have Lu, Romance
    • God, gold and blood (1980), Presses of the City
    • the commander of north (1982), Presses of the City, Romance
    • Marco Polo spy of Venice (1984), Pocket
    • the gold of Baal (1987), Gallimard
    • Tahiti (1988), Pocket
    • the King black , (1991), editions of Fallois, Romance
    • To die for Jerusalem (1995), editions of Fallois, history

    to specify

    miss the year
    • Voyage at the end of the war , Presses of the City
    • Fiu-Tahiti, the dugout and the bomb , Presses of the City
    • the fabulous adventure of the people of opium , Presses of the City
    • Lebanon - 8 days to die , Presses of the City
    • the shade of the war , two volumes
    the player of flute , Presses of the City 1989
  • the travelling acrobat , Presses of the City
    • the dragon, the Master of the sky and his seven daughters (), editions G.P.
    • the Sahara year I (), Gallimard
    • the great adventure of Lacq (), Gallimard
    • the guard (), Key Mercure de France, theater
    • for Africa (), Albin Michel
    • the gods die in Algeria (), the Modern Thought, album
    • the centurions of the King David Photographies Alain Taieb (1968), the Modern Thought, album
    • Triple play (), Laffont

    Compilations

    • Accounts of war (1989), Slow train, compilation

      • the mercenaries , the centurions , Praetorian the , yellow evil , bronze Drums
    • evil of Indo-China (1994), Slow train, compilation
      • Investigation into one crucifié , the good-bye in Saigon , shipwrecked men of the sun
    • the African night (1996), Slow train, compilation
      • black dreams , the Kings beggars , the commander of north , the black King
    • Indo-China (2004), Slow train, compilation

    any other business

    Jean-Jacques Beucler, one of its heroes.

    cinema

    the centurions , (Lost Command), 1966, is a film very freely adapted novel of Jean Lartéguy and carried out per Mark Robson.

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