biography
| name: |
Hallier, Jean-Edern
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pronunciation:
[aleeay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1936–97)
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| biography:
| Writer and polemicist, born in Edern, NW France. Son of a general, he said of himself that he was ‘méchant par volupté par plaisir du style’. Of narcissistic temperament, lyrical and médiatique, he had himself excluded from the review Tel Quel in 1963, of which he was co-founder. He published Le Grand Ecrivain in 1967. Politically left-wing after 1968, he was one of the founders of L'Idiot International (1973), his political activities involving him in numerous court cases. He broke with the Goncourt after denouncing literary rigging, and created the anti-Goncourt. L'Honneur perdu de F Mitterand marked his political return. |
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