François Augiéras

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François Augiéras (born July 18, 1925 in Rochester , New York , USA , † December 13, 1971 in Périgueux , Dordogne department , 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 with the family in the USA for professional reasons, his mother returned to France with the baby. He attended the Stanislas College in Paris before moving to Périgueux in the Dordogne when he was eight. At the age of thirteen, he left school, learned to draw, joined a youth group of the Vichy regime and became an actor in a traveling circus. In 1944, Augiéras signed up in the naval port of Toulon on the Mediterranean and was then transferred to Algiers in Algeria , then France . His uncle, whom he visited, was living as a pensioner in southern Algeria in the Sahara city of El Golea . The uncle seduced his young nephew, who discovered that he had a tendency towards homosexuality .

Under the pseudonym Abdallah Chaamba , Augiéras wrote his experiences in El Golea from 1949 in the report Le Vieillard et l'Enfant , which was published as a book in Paris in 1954. As a loner and revolutionary, he traveled in the following years through the Sahara, the Mediterranean region, and came to Greece , where he retired on Mount Athos for some time. Another station in his life was the collaboration and publications on or in the short-lived magazine Structure , which Pierre Renaud published 1957-1958 in Paris.

Augiéras' marriage to his cousin Viviane de la Ville, which was closed in 1960, ended in divorce in 1969. In 1967 his first book was published under his real name with the title Une adolescence au temps du Maréchal et de multiples aventures . His poverty, way of life and extreme loneliness led to deteriorating health. He withdrew to a cave near Domme in the Dordogne and was repeatedly admitted to the Périgueux hospital. His book Domme ou l'Essai d'occupation was only published after his death, his book Un voyage au Mont Athos in 1970.

The author died of heart failure in the Périgueux hospital after several stays at home.

Publications

Pseudonym Abdallah Chaamba

  • Le Vieillard et l'Enfant . Éditions de Minuit, Paris 1954
    • New edition: 1985.
  • Zirara . Revue Structure, Paris 1957.
  • Le voyage des morts . Revue Structure-La Nef de Paris, 1959
    • New edition. Fata Morgana 1979 and Les cahiers rouges 2000

Author name François Augiéras

  • Une adolescence au temps du Maréchal et de multiples aventaures . Christian Bourgois, 1968
    • New edition: Éditions de la Différence, 2001.
  • Un voyage au Mont Athos . Éditions Flammarion, Paris 1970.
    • German edition: A trip to Mount Athos. Translated from the French by Dirk Höfer. With an afterword by Jean Chalon. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95757-719-1 .
  • L'Apprenti sorcier . Fata Morgana 1976
    • New edition: Grasset, Paris 1989.
  • Domme ou l'Essai d'occupation . Mirage 1982
    • New edition: Éditions Grasset, Paris 1996.
  • Bout du monde , dessins de Claude Stassard-Springer. Editions de la Galotte, Vézelay 1998.
  • Lettres à Paul Plancet . Fanlac 2000.
  • Le Diable ermite . Letters to Jean Chalon (1968–1972). Editions de la Différence, 2003.
  • La Chasse fantastique . With a foreword by Paul Plancet. La Différence, Minos Collection, Paris 2005.

literature

  • Serge Sanchez: François Augiéras, le dernier primitif . Éditions Grasset, Paris 2006.
  • François Isolery: François Augiéras. Trajectoire d'une ronce Édition L'Harmattan, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-296-55224-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Improvisations around the heart of darkness in FAZ September 26, 2011, page 30