JOURDAN (Éric).

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JOURDAN (Éric).
A very elaborate autograph manuscript of his novel "The Young Soldier". Notebook of 199 full numbered pages, on ruled paper. Canvas binding, in-4 (30x23 cm), folder, slipcase, title piece. Seal: the corrected typescript, entitled "1ère frappe, Le Jeune Soldat" 218 pages in numbered sheets, in-4 (34x25 cm). Folder and case, title piece. First edition published by Pauvert in 2009. The novel was described as "scandalous" by the publisher, the story of an incest, of a young man forced to marry a pregnant girl. JOURDAN (Éric, named Jean Éric Green, 1930-2015) Companion and adopted son as an adult of Julien Green, he was buried next to him in Klagenfurt, Austria. Subversive" writer, author at the age of 16 of the novel "Les Mauvais Anges" published in 1955, struck by censorship for 30 years in France because of its theme of the carnal love between two teenage boys. He wrote about twenty novels and plays. He also collaborated in some writings with Julien Green. See the big sale of manuscripts, letters, photographs, souvenirs of Julien Green, donated by Éric Jourdan, sale organised by the Bergé house in Geneva on 27 November 2011.
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