Jacques Sternberg

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

Life

Sternberg was the son of a Jewish diamond dealer from Poland. At the age of sixteen he began to write sentimental stories and poems, then absurd and burlesque stories. The family fled first to the Côte d'Azur in 1942 and then on to Spain. There they were imprisoned in Barcelona for three months and then transferred to the Camp de Gurs detention center , where they spent eight months. While his father was deported to Germany and murdered in the Majdanek concentration camp , Jacques managed to escape the camp during a transport.

He hid underground and returned to Belgium with the American army at the end of 1944. In 1945 he married Francine, who had been active in the Jewish and communist resistance. To support his family, he worked as a packer in a cardboard box factory. Since 1945, under the impression of Henry Miller and Louis-Ferdinand Céline, he wrote six novels and short stories, for which, however, he could not find a publisher and which he destroyed. From 1946 he also wrote columns for Belgian newspapers.

In 1951 Sternberg went to Paris with his family. There the first stories appeared in magazines and in 1953 his novel La géométrie de l'impossible . In 1956 his first science fiction novel La sortie est au fond de l'espace appeared . Until 1961 he was deputy editor of the weekly magazine Arts . 1967–68 he wrote the screenplay for Alain Resnais ' film I love you, I love you ( Je t'aime, je t'aime ). In 1972 he became a columnist for surpayé and an editorial writer for Littèraire magazine .

In 1975 his most successful novel - also financially - Sophie la mer et la nuit was published . Afterwards Sternberg lost large parts of his readership and from 1989 onwards he no longer wrote any novels. By 2002 he had published six books: five volumes of short stories and an autobiography.

Works

  • Angles Morts , Stories (under the pseudonym Jacques Bert), 1944
  • Jamais je n'aurais cru cela , short stories (under the pseudonym Jacques Bert), 1945
  • Touches Noires , short stories, 1948
  • La géométrie dans l'impossible , short stories, 1953
  • Le délit , Roman, 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 , Roman, 1958
  • Univers Zéro , short stories, 1970
  • L'architecte , Roman, 1960
  • La banlieue , novel, 1961
  • Un jour ouvrable , novel, 1961
  • Toi, ma nuit , Roman, 1965
  • Attention, planète habitée , Roman, 1970
  • Futurs sans avenirs , short stories, 1971
  • Le cœur froid , novel, 1972
  • Contes glacés , short stories, 1974
  • Sophie, la mer et la nuit , Roman, 1976
  • Le navigateur , Roman, 1976
  • May 86 , novel, 1978
  • Suite pour Eveline, sweet Evelin , Roman, 1980
  • Agathe et Béatrice, Claire et Dorothée , Roman, 1982
  • L'anonyme , Roman, 1982
  • 188 Contes à régler , 1988
  • Le Shlemihl , Roman, 1989
  • Histoires à dormir sans vous , short stories, 1990
  • Histoires à mourir de vous , short stories, 1991
  • Contes griffus , 1993
  • Dieu, moi et les autres , short stories, 1995
  • Si loin de nulle part , short stories, 1998
  • 300 contes pour solde de tout compte , 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Sternberg, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bert, Jacques (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2006
Place of death Paris