have always been, good or bad, it belongs to others to decide. I write because I have no other way to speak. I do not like the attendance of other writers on the whole. My friends say that I am an uncouth bear, an animal which, with time, has become my totem, so I always lived on the fringe of the literary milieu". Écrire l'Éros, interviews with Stéphan Lévy-Kuentz, Blanche 2004) References External links Jacques Serguine on Babelio Jacques Serguine on Goodreads 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French essayists Prix Fénéon winners 1935 births Living people