Jean Lartéguy

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Jean Lartéguy
BornJean Pierre Lucien Osty
(1920-09-05)5 September 1920
Croix de guerre 1939-1945
Croix de Guerre TOE

Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 in Maisons-Alfort – 23 February 2011)[1] was the pen name of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier.[2]

Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the "

Les centurions.[3]

Biography

Lartéguy was born into what he called "one of those families of poor mountain peasants whose names are found inscribed on

Croix de guerre T.O.E.

After his military service, Lartéguy worked as a war correspondent, particularly for the magazine

French Battalion and was wounded by an enemy hand grenade during the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge. In Latin America, he reported on various revolutions and insurgencies, and in 1967 encountered Che Guevara
shortly before his capture and execution. In the July 1967 issue of Paris Match, Lartéguy wrote a major article entitled "Les Guerilleros", where he wrote: "At a time when Cuban revolutionaries want to create Vietnams all over the world, the Americans run the risk of finding their own Algeria in Latin America."

In 1955, he received the Albert Londres Prize for journalism.

Writing

His experiences as a soldier and war correspondent influenced his writing. Some of the most emphasized topics in his writing are

romans à clef glamorizing Vietnam veterans deeply engaged in Algerian politics, such as Marcel Bigeard and Jacques Massu
.

Also, with his novel The Centurions, Lartéguy is credited with being the first to envision the '

the new context
of modern terrorism.

Bibliography

  • La ville étranglée (1955)
  • Les âmes errantes (1956)
  • La tragédie du Maroc interdit (1957)
  • Les dieux meurent en Algérie (1960)
  • Les baladins de la Margeride (1962)
  • Visa pour l'Iran (1962)
  • Les mercenaires (1963) (Originally published as Du sang sur les collines, without success, reprinted with the new title after the success of Les centurions)
  • Les chimères noires (1963), translated into English as The Hounds of Hell
  • Guerre d'Algérie, two volumes
  1. Les centurions (1963), translated into English as The Centurions, adapted into film as Lost Command
  2. Les prétoriens (1964), translated into English as The Praetorians
  • Le mal jaune (1965), translated into English as Yellow Fever, (Reprint of two previously published titles: La ville étranglée and Les âmes errantes)
  • Un million de dollars le Viet (1965)
  • Sauveterre (1966), translated into English
  • Les guérilleros (1967)
  • Les chimères noires (1967)
  • Les tambours de bronze (1969), translated into English as The Bronze Drums
  • Ces voix qui nous viennent de la mer (1969)
  • Tout homme est une guerre civile, two volumes
  1. Le prêtre astronome (1969)
  2. Les libertadors (1970)
  • Lettre ouverte aux bonnes femmes (1972)
  • Les Rois mendiants (1975)

+++ "Adieu à Saigon " (1976)

  • Enquête sur un crucifié (1976)
  • Tout l'or du diable (1976)
  • Les rois mendiants (1977)
  • Les naufragés du soleil, three volumes
  1. Le gaur de la rivière noire (1978)
  2. Le cheval de feu (1980)
  3. Le baron céleste (1982)
  • Dieu, l'or et le sang (1980)
  • Le commandant du nord (1982)
  • Marco Polo espion de Venise (1984)
  • Soldats perdus et fous de Dieu, Indochine 1954-1955 (1986)
  • L'or de Baal (1987)
  • Tahiti (1988)
  • Le Roi noir, (1991)
  • Mourir pour Jérusalem (1995), (non-fiction)

References

  1. ^ "L'auteur des "Centurions", Jean Lartéguy, est mort". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2011-02-23. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  2. ^ "Jean Lartéguy, l'auteur des "Centurions", est mort". Libération.fr (in French). 2011-02-23. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  3. ^ Whatever it takes, The New Yorker, February 19, 2007.
  4. ^ "Nécrologie - Jean Lartéguy, écrivain", Le Monde (in French), 2011-02-28.

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