Yves Berger

Yves Berger is a writer and editor French born the January 14th 1931 with Avignon and deceased the November 16th 2004 with Paris.

It is of 1960 with 2000 the literary director of the Éditions Grasset, in whom it published several novels, in which it expresses its attachment with the the United States.

Biographical elements

Wire of road carrier, he affirms that this detail has its importance because several of its works are filled up of its love of the voyages. After secondary studies with the college Frederic Mistral of Avignon, Yves Berger carries out her higher learning with Montpellier and Paris. It keeps its southernmost origins facundity, a great joviality and an accent close to Raimu. Its childhood, rocked Jack London or Fenimore Cooper, inspires to him this passion of the Nouveau World which never does not leave it.

English teacher, it enters in 1960 at Grasset, of which it becomes one of the pillars. He gains there the nickname of “Manitoban of the literary prizes” and the reputation to make or demolish the prices. He writes its first novel, the South , in 1962 on the Virginia before the American Civil War. Yves Berger also contributes to make known in France the French-speaking authors, such Marie-Claire Blais or Antonine Maillet and prefaces works of Indian authors like Dee Brown, Vine Deloria and of Scott Momaday with its direction the Amerindian great writer of today.

He is named in 1996 president of the National observatory of the French language, organization now late, then the October 17th 2003 vice-president of the Superior council of the French language. He pestait against the devastations of the Anglo-américain on the French language and affirmed “ I concluded from there that the French speak a language so shaken, infiltrated, dislocated and, for all to say, by the Anglo-American one necrosed that they do not realize there, as if the Pidgin had become to them natural . ” In April 2004, he is elected by the royal Académie of language and French literature of Belgium to occupy the seat of Robert Mallet, deceased on December 4th, 2002.

Works

; Novels

the South (1962, Price Femina)
the insane one of America
mornings of the New World
stone and the saguaro (1990, Price of the French language)
the attrapor of shades (1992)
Motionless in the current of the river (1994, Price Médicis)
the world after the rain (1997)
Santa Fe (2000). Topic of lost youth. It is the history of the double passion of a man, Roque, about sixty. That which it carries to Lea, who is 18 years old, and that which it dedicates in the New World.

; Tests

Boris Pasternak (1958)
Which can the literature? , (collective)
Dictionary in love: The United States (Price Renaudot of the test in 2003)

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