Jean-Jacques Brochier (28 December 1937 – 29 October 2004), the son of a physician, was a French journalist, and chief editor of Le Magazine Littéraire from 1968 to 2004.
Biography As a student, he was actively engaged with the NLF and became a member of the Réseau Jeanson. On 24 November 1960, while he was vice-president of the General Assembly of the students of Lyon, he was arrested along with his wife in support of the struggle for the independence of Algeria. On 14 April 1961 they were both sentenced to ten years imprisonment and jailed in prisons Saint-Paul then Montluc. He was struck with indignité nationale. He would finally be sentenced to three years in prison before receiving a presidential pardon.Mort du journaliste littéraire Jean-Jacques Brochier, Le nouvel Observateur, 4 November 2004
Close to Gilles Deleuze and Dominique de Roux who guides him to le Magazine littéraire, in 1967, an admirer of Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre, he had in his possession a desk of Émile Zola and became a television columnist in Italiques, a program proposed by Marc Gilbert .Marc Gilbert : Italiques, l'émission littéraire, Tribune Juive
He published several novels, including Un jeune homme bien élevé (1978) (Prix des Sept 1979), Un cauchemar (1984) Prix du Livre Inter (1985), and L'Hallali (1987). He is also the author of essays - notably on Camus, Sade, Vailland, Robbe-Grillet, Maupassant and Sartre - and the pamphlet entitled .Camus, philosophe pour classes terminales, 1970, éd. A. Balland. Reissued in 1979, A. Balland, then 2001, La Différence
From 1995, he was a member of the jury of the .Anne Coudreuse et Françoise Simonet-Tenant (dir.), Pour une histoire de l'intime et de ses variations, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2009, p. 7. He was an honorary member of the of Saint-Malo
In 1997, Jean-Jacques Brochier established with Danièle Brison and Chantal Robillard the prize "Printemps du Roman", awarded each year at Saint-Louis (Haut-Rhin), at the book fair of which he was president until his death in 2004. The presidency has since been awarded to a different jury member each year.
Private life He married Nicole Brochier, born April 8, 1937.
Distinctions 1985: Prix du Livre Inter for Un cauchemar 2000:
Bibliography 1969: , Paris, Éric Losfeld, 148 p. 1982: Villa Marguerite, Paris, Albin Michel 1984: Une enfance lyonnaise au temps du Maréchal, ACE éditeur 1984: Un cauchemar, Albin Michel, Prix du Livre Inter 1985 1987: L'hallali, Albin Michel 1994: Anthologie de la bécassine et des petits échassiers, Paris, Hatier, 221 p. 1995: Pour Sartre : le jour où Sartre refusa le Nobel, Paris, JC Lattès 1996: Chroniques du Capricorne 1977–1983, Encrages éditions 2002: Un jeune homme bien élevé, Paris, La Différence, coll. Minos 2005: Pour l'amour des livres - interviews with Nadine Sautel, Albin Michel 1980: Odette Genonceau, Albin Michel
References
External links Jean-Jacques Brochier on Babelio La mort de Jean-Jacques Brochier, journaliste et écrivain on La Croix (2 November 2014) Jean-Jacques Brochier on Who's Who? Jean-Jacques Brochier on Mercure de France Jean-Jacques Brochier on République des Lettres Jean-Jacques Brochier publications on CAIRN Décès du critique littéraire Jean-Jacques Brochier on Libération (30 October 2004) Jean-Jacques Brochier à propos de Tolkien on INA.fr (5 January 1973)