Jack-Alain Léger

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Jack-Alain Léger (born June 5, 1947 in Paris as Daniel Théron ; † July 17, 2013 there ) was a French writer and musician .

Live and act

Daniel Théron was born in Paris in 1947. Jack-Alain Léger was his best known pseudonym. He also used the names Melmoth , Dashiell Hedayat , Eve Saint-Roch and Paul Smaïl . His greatest success was the 1976 work "Monsignore", which was sold over 350,000 times in France. The book was filmed in 1982 by Frank Perry as Monsignor with actors such as Christopher Reeve , Geneviève Bujold , Fernando Rey and others.

He translated the works of Bob Dylan (Tarantula) , JRR Tolkien (The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) and Leonard Cohen ( The Energy of Slaves , German: "The energy of slaves").

Works

under the pseudonym Melmoth

  • Being , 1969

under the pseudonym Dashiell Hedayat :

  • Le Bleu le bleu , 1971
  • Le livre des morts-vivants , 1972
  • Selva Oscura , 1974
  • Jeux d'intérieur au bord de l'océan , 1979

under the pseudonym Jack-Alain Léger :

  • Mon Premier Amour , 1973
  • Un ciel si fragile , 1975
  • Monsignor , 1976
  • Capriccio 1978
  • L'heure du Tigre , 1979
  • Monsignor II , 1981
  • Ocean , 1982
  • Autoportrait au loup , 1982
  • Pacific Palisades , 1982
  • Hiking trail , 1986
  • Le Siècle des ténèbres , 1989
  • Le Roman , 1991
  • Les souliers rouges de la Duchesse , 1992
  • Le duo du II , 1993
  • Jacob Jacobi , 1993
  • La gloire est le deuil éclatant du bonheur , 1995
  • L'autre Falstaff , 1996
  • Maestranza , 2000

under the pseudonym Eve Saint-Roch :

  • Prima Donna , 1988

under the pseudonym Paul Smaïl :

  • Vivre me tue , 1997
  • Casa, la casa , Ballands, 1998.
  • La passion selon moi , Laffont, 1999
  • Ali le magnifique , Denoël, 2001

Discography

under the pseudonym Melmoth  :

  • La Devanture des ivresses , Arion CBS, 1968 (CD: Mantra FGL, 1992)

under the pseudonym Dashiell Hedayat  :

  • Obsolete , Shandar RCA, 1971 (CD: Mantra FGL, 1992)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jack-Alain Léger, grand écrivain maudit, s'est donné la mort
personal data
SURNAME Léger, Jack-Alain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Théron, Daniel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 2013
Place of death Paris