Yves Berger

Yves Berger (born January 14, 1931 in Avignon , † November 16, 2004 in Paris ) was a French writer.

Above all, Berger distinguished himself as a connoisseur of America . He reached the peak of his writing with his novel "The World After the Rain". In Germany, Berger was best known for his novel “Great Dream America”. He was considered an exceptional author in literary circles, and his artistic work was often misunderstood. Berger was the literary director of the large French literary publisher Grasset from 1960 to 2000 .

Works

Novels

(published by Grasset)

• Le monde après la pluie
• Le fou d'Amérique
• Les matins du Nouveau Monde
• Le Sud - Prix ​​Femina 1962. German by Kuno Raeber : The south . Novel. Hanser Verlag , Munich 1964.
• L'attrapeur d'ombres
• Immobile dans le courant du fleuve ( Prix ​​Médicis )
• La pierre et la saguaro
• Santa Fe

Essays

• Dictionnaire amoureux: États-Unis , Plon (Prix Renaudot de l'essai en 2003)
• Boris Pasternak , Seghers
• Que peut la litterature? , Collective work, 10/18

Albums

• La Nouvelle-Orléans , éditions du Pacifique
• Les lubérons (photo de Martine Franck), éditions du Chêne
• Les indiens des plaines , (co-author Daniel Dubois), Dargaud
• Cow-boys, Mythe et réalité (photos by Claude Poulet), éditions du Chêne
• La Galerie indienne du fou d'Amérique (original lithograph by Pierre Cayol, Alain Barthélemy), Avignon
• Louisiane: Entre ciel et terre (photos by Marc Garanger), Kodak et Contre-Jour
• L'Ouest sauvage (pour le texte littéraire) , Denoël
• America , Editions André Barret

Web links

• Literature by and about Yves Berger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Yves Berger in the Internet Movie Database (English)