Jean-Edern Hallier
| Jean-Edern Hallier | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1 March 1936 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France |
| Died | 12 January 1997 (aged 60) Deauville, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Writer |
Jean-Edern Hallier (March 1, 1936 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines – January 12, 1997 in Deauville) was a French author.
Hallier was the son of World War I French General André Hallier. Jean-Edern was born one-eyed in 1936. While the Hallier family has ancient Breton roots on his father's side, Jean-Edern later (L'évangile du fou) claimed his mother had Alsatian and Jewish heritage.
Hallier, returning to France after World War II, first studied at the Pierre-qui-vire convent and then at a Paris lycée and at Oxford. He travelled extensively, even getting shipwrecked in the Persian gulf, and in 1960 founded the literary review Tel Quel with Philippe Sollers. Three years later he published his first novel, "Les Aventures d'une jeune fille" (A young lady's adventures). He then worked as a publisher with Plon and finished his second novel, "Le Grand écrivain" (The Great Author), in 1967.
Deeply stirred by the 1968 student riots in Paris, he disclosed his then leftist views in the partly autobiographical La Cause des peuples (1972), plunged into politics full-time and started the first, leftist version of his paper, L'Idiot international, partly funded at first by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. On January 26, 1973, Marc Gilbert cancels his presence on the set of French talk-show, Italiques.
He traveled to Chile after Pinochet's 1973 coup, with funds gathered by Régis Debray which were to be handed out to the Chilean resistance. However, he returned to Paris without the money and without having handed it to the resistance, claiming he had bought 400.000 hectares in the Amazon Basin to provide shelter for the future Chilean exiles. He progressively broke up with the left-wing after this event. He also broke with the nouveau roman in 1974 with Chagrins d'amour.
...
Wikipedia