Roger Ikor

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Roger Ikor (born May 28, 1912 in Paris , † November 17, 1986 there ) was a French writer. In 1955 he received the Prix ​​Goncourt for his novel Les eaux mêlées .

Ikor, who was descended from Lithuanian Jews , attended the Lycée Condorcet . After graduating in literature in 1935, he was a high school teacher. During the Second World War he was taken prisoner of war in Pomerania as an officer in 1940 . Then he was again a high school teacher in Paris (including at the Lycée Charlemagne ). After the war he started publishing and in 1950 his first novel was published. Les eaux mêlées , the story of a Russian-Jewish family spanning three generations in France (and their connection with a non-Jewish family), received the Prix Goncourt in 1955. The novel forms a unit with La Greffe du printemps and is set in La Frette-sur-Seine and Herblay-sur-Seine and was filmed for television.

His 1972 novel Le Tourniquet des innocents is set in the Lycée Condorcet. He also wrote a six-volume cycle of novels ( Si le temps ) in which the architect Ludovic Fenns looks back on his life.

His son died under the influence of a macrobiotic Zen sect, which Ikor used as the occasion of a public campaign on television and in two books (including Les Sectes, un mal de civilization , Albin Michel 1983) against sectarianism. In 1981 he founded the Center contre les manipulations mentales to protect people against sects.

In the 1930s, he also published historical books on the 1848 revolution and Saint-Just .

Works

  • La Greffe de printemps , 1955
  • Les Eaux mêlées 1955. Prix Goncourt
    • Übers. Ernst Sander , Werner von Grünau: The sons of Abraham. Kindler, Munich 1957 (Albert Schweitzer Book Prize 1957)
  • Mise au net (Pour une révolution de la discrétion) 1957
  • Ciel ouvert 1959
  • Le Semeur de vent. 1960 (Si le temps 1)
    • The village with no money. Kindler 1963
  • Les Murmures de la guerre . Albin Michel 1961 (Si le temps 2)
    • The whispering war. Kindler 1964
  • La Pluie sur la mer 1962 (Si le temps 3)
    • Rain over the Sea, Kindler 1963
  • La Ceinture de ciel 1964 (Si le temps 4)
    • Happiness of no return. Geneva 1971
  • Gloucq ou la toison d'Or 1965
  • Les Poulains 1966 (Si le temps 5)
  • Fréres humaines , 1969 (Si le temps 6)
  • Le Tourniquet des innocents. 1972
  • Pour une fois écoute, mon enfant. 1975 (memories of his captivity)
  • Je porte plainte. 1981
  • Les Sectes, un mal de civilization. 1983
  • O soldats de quarante! ... 1986
  • Les Fleurs du soir. 1985

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notes

  1. ↑ About the fate of a Jewish family that escaped the pogrom-friendly tsarism, sought a new home in France and gradually assimilated into the third generation. The French literary critic Robert Kemp in Nouvelles Literaires : "A family story of a quality that is not often seen."
  2. ↑ Maurice Colleville 's award speech is referenced in Kindler's autobiography , ibid. Also Ikors acceptance speech in excerpt, held in German, about his time as a prisoner of war of the Germans.
personal data
SURNAME Ikor, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1986
Place of death Paris