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The Gérald Hervé
Society was created in 1999, one year after his tragic death in
Paradise Island (Nassau, The Bahamas). He was killed by a powerful
motorboat on the 28th of May, 1998, in circumstances which remain
unclear.
Its name since 2003 is
Société des amis de Gérald Hervé. Its aims
are to disseminate information about his life and work, and to play a
part in representing the values he defended throughout his life.
In 2003-2004, the
French publisher Michel Bourdain, located in Belgium, published six
volumes of previously unpublished work by Hervé. A first title, Le
Carnet de mémoire et d’oubli. La France 1990, a diary, is now also
available in the USA through the Web bookshop «Les lettres de France»
(www.lettresdefrance.com).
The Society’s
review, la Ligne d’ombre, is open to anyone who wants to participate
in our work. The title obviously refers to Joseph Conrad’s
masterpiece, The Shadow Line. A life-long reader of his work,
Gérald Hervé is the author of a kind of conradian novel, Les Feux
d’Orion (1991). Our choice of title is also a way of highlighting
his interest in Anglo-Saxon culture from the time of his youth, when
he wrote poems in English during the WWII (to be published in the
present review), as well as further reading of the main English and
American writers, before and after the professional training cruise to
America as a Navy Administrator in 1954. The action of his first
literary text, a short novel entitled Le Jeune Homme et le soleil
ou Les Hérésies imaginaires, takes place in California.
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