Talk:Jacques Spitz

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It is not correct to state that his (Jacques Spitz's) style is reminiscent of Pierre Boulle's, because Boulle started to write about at the same time Spitz stopped to publish SF stories.

Boulle was quite younger than Spitz and almost of the previous genration: Spitz (1896-1963) vs. Boulle (1912, 1994). The first collection of Boulle "Les contes de l'absurbe" [Tales of the Absurd ] was published in 1953 (Julliard, Paris), whereas Spitz's last SF novel was released in 1945 ("L'Oeil du Purgatoire" [The Eye of the Purgatory], Nouvelle France, Paris, 1945). Spitz's latest books are surrealistic and not SF. As a matter of fact, it is better to state an almost inverse formulation: Spitz ranks as one of the greatest writers of the classical pre-50's school of "domestic" French SF, the last and late remnants of which were Pierre Boulle and René Barjavel in the context of an increasingly strong influence from US "golden age" SF (translation of Van Vogt, Asimov, et al. started in the early 50's).

--193.248.48.124 17:27, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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