Éric Jourdan (born Jean Roger Éric Gaytérou), born in Paris on May 29, 1930 and died in Paris on February 7, 2015, named Jean-Eric Green since his adoption as an adult by
Julien Green, was a French writer.
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Éric Jourdan (born Jean Roger Éric Gaytérou), born in Paris on May 29, 1930 and died in Paris on February 7, 2015, named Jean-Eric Green since his adoption as an adult by
Julien Green, was a French writer.
Éric Jourdan is the author, in 1955, of the novel Les Mauvais Anges which is the subject of censorship because of its theme of carnal love between two adolescent boys. The work was twice banned in France in the space of twenty-nine years, which did not prevent deluxe editions and in particular its first English translation under the title Two by Richard Howard. Of "diverse" origins – Wales and the Basque Country on his father's side, Savoy and Tyrol on his mother's side – he hid his true age for a long time, changed his identity several times and wrote under several pseudonyms that he never revealed. He was adopted as an adult by the American writer Julien Green, considered one of the major French-language authors of the twentieth century, and collaborated on his work under the names Didier Mesnil and Giovanni Lucera. He lived at his adoptive father's home, rue Vaneau in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, until the latter's death in 1998. He created a lively controversy in 2011 by trying to auction most of his adoptive father's manuscripts. It was feared that this unique collection, which was finally saved and deposited in the Bibliothèque nationale de France after his death, would be irretrievably dispersed.
He is buried, next to his adoptive father, in the Chapel of the Virgin of St. Egid's Church in Klagenfurt, Austria, on Thursday, February 19, 2015.
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