Jacques Serguine

Jacques Jean Marie Gouzerh (9 June 1934 – 10 April 2023 ), known professionally as Jacques Serguine, was a French writer and essayist.

Biography Born in 1934, Jacques Serguine, pen name of Jacques Gouzerh, lived and worked in Avon near Fontainebleau. He was noticed very young by Jean Paulhan who published his first texts in La Nouvelle Revue française. In 1959, his first novel, Les Fils de Rois, inaugurated the series "Le Chemin" (Gallimard) directed by Georges Lambrichs, obtained the Prix Fénéon and missed the Prix Médicis by one vote behind Claude Mauriac. Assimilated to the literary movement of the Hussards, he will decline the invitation by political convictions. His fourth novel Mano l'Archange, although unanimously hailed by the critic whose first defender was Kleber Haedens, was banned from sale for "harm to good morals".

On the sidelines of a noted literary work , Jacques Serguine is also the author of Cruelle Zélande and Éloge de la fessée (Folio Gallimard) which has been said to have given their letters of nobility to this erotic fantasy.

Novels 1959: Les Fils de rois, Éditions Gallimard 1960: Le Petit Hussard, Gallimard 1962: Les Saints innocents, Gallimard, Prix Fénéon 1962: Mano l'Archange, Gallimard 1963: Les Falaises d'or, Gallimard 1964: Manuel et Gentille, Gallimard 1967: Les Jours, Flammarion 1969: Les Barbares, Gallimard 1970: La Mort confuse, Gallimard 1971: Les abois, Gallimard 1975: Les Russes et les Bretons, Gallimard 1978: Cruelle Zélande, Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1985: Je suis de la nation du loup, 1989: Je n'ai pas fini de t'aimer aujourd'hui, Éditions Belfond 1992: La Maison de l'Avenida, Belfond 1992: La Culotte de feuilles, JC Lattès 1994: Istambul Loti, Lattès 1998: Délit du corps, Le Cercle 2003: La Peau du chagrin, Éditions du Rocher 2006: L'Été des jeunes filles, Mercure de France 2007: L'Attendrisseur, Blanche

Essays 1973: Éloge de la fessée, Gallimard 1988: Contradictionnaire, Le Cherche midi 1989: L'Odeur de sainteté, Éditions Le Pré aux clercs 2002: Un stylo à bile, Le Cherche midi 2004: De la coupe aux lèvres, followed by Écrire l'Eros, interviews with , Blanche

Notices 2000: Encyclopédie du Sadomasochisme (p. 350.351). 2005: Dictionnaire de la pornographie (p. 562). Dir. Philippe Di Folco, P.U.F

Extract "If writing is the sine qua non medium of the writer, the man of letters has a career, I am a writer, I have always been, good or bad, it belongs to others to decide. I write because I have no other way to speak. I do not like the attendance of other writers on the whole. My friends say that I am an uncouth bear, an animal which, with time, has become my totem, so I always lived on the fringe of the literary milieu". Écrire l'Éros, interviews with Stéphan Lévy-Kuentz, Blanche 2004)