François Augiéras

François Augiéras ( born July 18, 1925 in Rochester, New York, USA, † December 13, 1971 in Périgueux, Dordogne, France) was a French author of the 20th century.

Life

Augiéras is the son of a French pianist and a Polish porcelain painter. After the death of his father, who was for professional reasons with the family in the United States, his mother took the infant back to France. In Paris he attended the Collège Stanislas, before he clipped with eight years of Périgueux in the Dordogne. At thirteen he left school, learned drawing, joined a youth group of the Vichy regime and became an actor in a traveling circus. In 1944 he undertook the naval port of Toulon on the Mediterranean and was subsequently transferred to Algiers in what was then French Algeria. His uncle, whom he visited, lived at this time as a pensioner in southern Algeria in the Sahara desert town of El Golea. The uncle seduced the young man having a predisposition to homosexuality discovered with him.

Under the pseudonym Abdallah Chaamba Augiéras wrote in 1949 about his experiences in El Golea in the Le et l' Enfant Vieillard report down, which was in 1954 moved to Paris as a book. As a loner and revolutionaries, he traveled in the following years through the Sahara, the Mediterranean, and came to Greece, where he retired at Mount Athos for some time. Another stop of his life were the employees and publications on or in the short-lived journal Structure, published the 1957-1958 Pierre Renaud in Paris.

Augiéras ' marriage with his cousin Viviane de la Ville, which was closed in 1960, was divorced in 1969. In 1967 his first book under his real name Une adolescence au temps du Maréchal et aventures de multiples. His poverty, his lifestyle and his extreme loneliness led to a deteriorating health. He retreated to a cave in Domme in the Dordogne and was repeatedly hospitalized from Périgueux. His book Domme ou l' Essai d' occupation was not published until after his death, his book Un voyage au Mont Athos still in 1970.

The author died after several stays home from heart failure at the Hospital of Périgueux.

Publications

• Le et l' Enfant Vieillard. Éditions de Minuit, Paris 1954, reprinted 1985.
• Zirara. Review Structure, Paris 1957.
• Le voyage des morts. Review Structure- La Nef de Paris, 1959, edition. Mirage in 1979 and 2000: Les Cahiers rouges.

• Une adolescence au temps du Maréchal et de multiples aventaures. Christian Bourgois, 1968, reprinted: Éditions de la Différence, 2001.
• Un voyage au Mont Athos. Éditions Flammarion, Paris, 1970.
• L' Apprenti sorcier. Mirage 1976, reprint: Grasset, Paris 1989.
• Domme ou l' Essai d' occupation. Mirage 1982, reissued: Éditions Grasset, Paris 1996.
• Lettres à Paul Plancet. Fanlac 2000
• Le Diable ermite. Letters to Jean Chalon ( 1968-1972 ). Éditions de la Différence, 2003.
• La Chasse fantastique. with a foreword by Paul Plancet. La Différence, Minos Collection, Paris, 2005.