Jean Gwenaël Dutourd (; 14 January 192017 January 2011) was a French novelist. Biography Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He entered the Resistance and was again arrested in early 1944. He escaped and took part in the Liberation of Paris. He was a candidate for the Democratic Union of Labour (UDT) in the legislative elections of 1967. His first work, Le Complexe de César, appeared in 1946 and received the Prix Stendhal. He was elected to the Académie française on 30 November 1978. In 1997 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Language and Literature. Dutourd died in Paris on 17 January 2011, at the age of 91. Bibliography 1946 Le Complexe de César (Gallimard) 1947 Le Déjeuner du lundi (Gallimard) 1947 Galère (Éd. des Granges-Vieilles) 1948 L’Arbre (Gallimard) 1950 Une tête de chien (Gallimard) [In English: "A Dog's Head: A Novel" tr. Robin Chancellor (1998) ()] 1950 Le Petit Don Juan, traité de la séduction (Robert Laffont) 1952 Au bon beurre, scènes de la vie sous l'Occupation (Gallimard) [Two titles in English: "The Milky Way" tr. Robin Chancellor (Museum Press, 1955, UK); "The Best Butter" (Simon & Schuster, 1955, US)] 1955 Doucin (Gallimard) [In English: "Five A.M." tr. Robin Chancellor (Simon & Schuster, 1956)] 1956 Les Taxis de la Marne (Gallimard) [In English: "The Taxis of the Marne" tr. Harold King (Simon & Schuster, 1957)] 1958 Le Fond et la Forme, essai alphabétique sur la morale et sur le style (Gallimard) 1959 Les Dupes (Gallimard) 1959 L’Âme sensible (Gallimard) [In English: "The Man of Sensibility" tr. Robin Chancellor (Simon & Schuster, 1961)] 1960 Le Fond et la Forme, tome II (Gallimard) 1963 Rivarol, essai et choix de textes (Mercure de France) 1963 Les Horreurs de l’amour (Gallimard) [In English: "The Horrors of Love" tr. Robin Chancellor (Doubleday, 1967)] 1964 La Fin des Peaux-Rouges (Gallimard) [In English: "The Last of the Redskins" tr. Grace T. Mayes (Doubleday, 1965)] 1965 Le Demi-Solde (Gallimard) 1965 Le Fond et la Forme, tome III (Gallimard) 1967 Pluche ou l’Amour de l’art (Flammarion) [In English: "Pluche, or The Love of