Jacques Sternberg

Jacques Sternberg (pseudonym: Jacques Bertrand, born April 17, 1923 in Antwerp, † October 11th 2006 in Paris) was a Belgian writer.

Life

Sternberg was the son of a Jewish diamond dealer from Poland. He started at sixteen first sentimental stories and poems, then write absurd and burlesque narratives. The family fled in 1942, first to the Côte d' Azur and on to Spain. There they were three months in prison in Barcelona and then came to the internment camp de Gur, where they spent eight months. While his father was deported to Germany and murdered in Majdanek concentration camp, succeeded Jacques to escape the camp during transport.

He hid in the underground and returned in late 1944 with the U.S. Army to Belgium back. In 1945, he married Francine, who had been active in the Jewish and communist resistance. To feed his family, he worked as a packer in a cardboard factory. Since 1945, he wrote under the influence of Henry Miller and Louis -Ferdinand Céline six novels and short stories, but for which he found a publisher and he destroyed. From 1946 he also wrote columns for Belgian newspapers.

1951 Sternberg went with his family to Paris. There appeared first short stories in magazines and in 1953 his novel La géométrie de l'impossible. 1956 published his first science fiction novel La sortie est au fond de l' espace. Until 1961 he was deputy editor of the weekly magazine Arts. 1967-68 he wrote the screenplay for Alain Resnais's film I Love You, I Love You ( Je t'aime, je t'aime ). He was a columnist for the surpayé and Editorial -author of the Magazine littéraire 1972.

1975 appeared to be - financially - most successful novel Sophie la mer et la nuit. Then Sternberg lost large parts of its readership and wrote from 1989 no more novels. By 2002, still published six of his books: five collections of short stories and an autobiography.

Works

  • Angles Morts, short stories ( under the pseudonym Jacques Bertrand ), 1944
  • Jamais per n'aurais cru cela, short stories ( under the pseudonym Jacques Bertrand ), 1945
  • Touches Noires, short stories, 1948
  • La géométrie dans l'impossible, short stories, 1953
  • Le délit, novel, 1954
  • La géométrie dans la terreur, short stories, 1955
  • L' Architecte, short stories, 1956
  • La sortie est au fond de l' espace, novel, 1956
  • Entre deux mondes incertains, short stories, 1958
  • L' employé, novel, 1958
  • Univers Zéro, short stories, 1970
  • L' architecte, novel, 1960
  • La banlieue, novel, 1961
  • Un jour ouvrable, novel, 1961
  • Toi, ma nuit, novel, 1965
  • Attention, planète habitee, novel, 1970
  • Future tense sans avenirs, short stories, 1971
  • Le cœur froid, novel, 1972
  • Contes glacés, short stories, 1974
  • Sophie, la mer et la nuit, novel, 1976
  • Le navigateur, novel, 1976
  • May 86, novel, 1978
  • Suite pour Eveline, sweet Evelin, novel, 1980
  • Agathe et Béatrice, Claire et Dorothée, novel, 1982
  • L' anonymous, novel, 1982
  • 188 Contes à regulator, 1988
  • Le Shlemihl, novel, 1989
  • Histoires à dormir sans vous, short stories, 1990
  • Histoires à mourir de vous, short stories, 1991
  • Contes griffus, 1993
  • Dieu, les autres et moi, short stories, 1995
  • Si loin de nulle part, short stories, 1998
  • 300 contes pour solde de tout compte, 2002
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