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biography
pronunciation:
[ohzhayrias]
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| (1924–71)
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| French novelist. Self-taught, he drew on his ambiguous life of vagrancy to produce intimate novels of fantasy. He became known with a pamphlet which was privately distributed, signed ‘Abdallah Chaamba’, and entitled Le Vieillard et l'enfant (1953). Under his own name were Le Voyage des morts (1959) and Un Voyage au Mont Athos (1970), evidence of his search for a mysticism tinted with pansexualism. The anonymous L'apprenti sorcier (1964) shows his affinity with Sade. Humour is evident in his Une Adolescence au temps du Marechal. |
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