About Régis Messac
Lived 1893 – 1945 (aged 51–52). Régis Messac was a French linguist, poet, translator, literary critic, science fiction writer and novelist.
Régis Messac (2 August 1893 – 1945) was a French essayist, poet and translator.
Published works Studies Le « Detective Novel » et l'influence de la pensée scientifique (1929) ; new edition, corrected and annotated, preface by Claude Amoz, postface by François Guérif: (les Belles Lettres, coll. Encrage/travaux, 2011) Influences française dans l'œuvre d'Edgar Poe (1929) Micromégas (1936) Brève histoire des hommes (1939) Esquisse d'une chronobibliographie des Utopies ( 1962) La Révolution culturelle ( 1988) Les Romans de l’homme-singe, pref. by Marc Angenot ( 2007) Les Premières Utopies, pref. by Serge Lehman (Éditions ex nihilo, 2009) Poetry Poèmes guerriers (1929) Pamphlet À bas le latin ! (1933) ; new edition, established, presented and completed by Olivier Messac, pref. by Anne-Marie Ozanam, (Éditions ex nihilo, 2010) Novels and short stories (SF) réédité chez L'Arbre Vengeur coll. L'Alambic in 2007. First English translation Quinzinzinzany by Mathieu Triay in issues One (Visions of Home, 2018) and Two (Visions of humanity, 2019) of Visions, a British science fiction magazine in trade paperback format. La Cité des asphyxiés ( 2010)
Musique arachnéenne ( 1973) Le Miroir flexible , pref. by Gérard Klein (2008) Romans à caractère autobiographique Le Voyage de Néania à travers la guerre et la paix , pref. by Didier Daeninckx (Éditions ex nihilo, 2014) Smith Conundrum, roman d'une université américaine , pref. by Marc Angenot, postf. de Robert Michel (Éditions ex nihilo, 2010) Chronicles Pot-pourri fantôme ( 1958) Roman policier, fragment d'histoire, préf. de Gérard Durozoi (Éditions ex nihilo, 2009) La Crise, chronique éditoriale, 1930-1939, préf. de Michel Besnier (Éditions ex nihilo, 2013) Corresponde gérarnce Lettres de prison ( 2005)
Translations David H. Keller Les Mains et la machine (Stenographer's Hands, 1928), 1932 La Nourrice automatique (The Psychophonic Nurse, 1928), 1936 La Guerre du lierre (The Ivy War, 1930), 1936 Pourquoi ? (The Question), 1937 Le Fou du ciel (The Flying Fool), 1937 La Lune de miel perpétuelle (Life Everlasting), 1938 Le Duel sans fin (The Eternal Conflict), 1939 (publication partielle) Fitz James O'Brien Animula (The Diamonds Lens), 1931 L’Histoire du dragon Fang, 1935 Max Nettlau Esquisse d'histoire des Utopies (Esbozo de historia de las Utopias, 1934), 1936-1938 Jack London Ce que la vie signifie pour moi (What Life Means to Me, 1905), 1939
Pseudonyms
Robert Champagnac John Doe Maxime Dolus Jehan Fabian Mad Hobo Jérémie Jéricho Romain Lécapèr Gontran Lenoir (taken over by his son Ralph) Sancho Llorente Robert Ludion Le Mandarin Columbus North L’Ours mal léché Margarita Risa Elsa Rothgemünde Esteban Scanlan Doctor Séraphicus Laurent Zurbarran
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Who was Régis Messac?
French writer (1893–1945)
When was Régis Messac born?
Régis Messac was born on 2 August 1893 in Champagnac.
When did Régis Messac die?
Régis Messac died in 1945 in extermination camp.
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Régis Messac was a linguist, poet, translator, literary critic, science fiction writer and novelist.
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Régis Messac was French.
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