A.D.G.

The reactionary of the black novel

After being themselves committed like child reared by the army at the twelve years age and being left the school system with for only luggage its BEPC, it begins in the working life like employee with the Crédit Lyonnais, then exerts the trades of secondhand bookseller and second-hand dealer. A while short to the lampoonist Michel-Georges Micberth, who chairs the Jeune French poetic Force , he becomes his collaborator and directing literary with the editions of the JFPF (of 1966 to 1971), where he write under the pseudonym of “Alain Dreux-Gallou”, Dreux and Gallou being family names of two of his/her grandparents. Its true name is obviously difficult to carry in literature, because of homonymy with Alain-Baker, and it will thus preserve the initials of this pseudonym, A.D.G., always written with three points, like pen name. He will think of changing pseudonym to sign name of Alain Camille, but will return quickly to his first signature. Camille is besides the family name which it will adopt legally, finding its patronym of birth too heavy.

Its first novel, Divine Surprised the , is inspired by the confidences of OJ Attia, gangster and resistant of which it then wrote the biography in the capacity as " nègre". Fault of knowing its real identity, some imaginative journalists put forth a time the assumption that A.D.G. was a pseudonym for Raymond Queneau, while others transfer there the memories of a former gangster reconverted into the literature.

In its novels, it is kept well, contrary to the other authors of the Black series, to speak in praise of the medium of the gangsters whom it considers made up “of dreadful idiots, inconsistent, stupid, who make use of glory that certain authors like Auguste Breton the and Jose Giovanni created to them”. Admiror of Albert Simonin, A.D.G. strews his first novels, in particular Panadeux , of expression Argot ic.

In 1972, it publishes a chronicle berrichonne, the Night of the large sick dogs , carried to the cinema by Georges Lautner, where one sees a community hippie settling in a small village and being opposed to a band of gangsters while being combined to the peasants of the corner. Follows a discrete homage to Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Cradoque' S Band , the account of a holdup, the Three Badours , published under the pseudonym of Alain Camille (and since republished under the name of A.D.G.), and a return in Berry, Berry story . In 1977, he imagines in the Large Kid , the return of Augustin to the lost country, homage and parody of the masterpiece of his large elder.

In, to avenge pépère (1980), a novel with suspense that Jean-Patrick Manchette judged “very coherent, very succeeded, excel”, a young lawyer with the bar of Towers inquires into the death of his/her grandfather killed at the time of the shooting of a holdup. One sees there in background his character fetish, the alcoholic journalist and anarchizing Sergueï Djerbitskine, alias Machin (partly inspired of his/her friend Serge de Beketch, but which becomes a double of A.D.G. itself in the novels located in New Caledonia).

In 1981, it is tested with a short account of 100 pages, the short-sighted Night , qualified of “hundred literary percent” per Jean Cochet, who would be a “kind of ridiculous epopee of a weak-willed dreamer”.

In 1981, it leaves to settle in New Caledonia where it undertakes the drafting of a historical novel devoted to the colonization of the island, the Great South , which will gain, at its exit in 1987, a best-seller. It envisaged to write a continuation of it but will not stop finally with the first volume. The three detective novels which it also publishes between 1987 and 1991 contain attacks against the freedom fighters: opinion of their author, these works is not, qualitatively, with the height of its preceding novels. A.D.G. undertakes on the island a virulent political activity against the canaques freedom fighters, and is given the responsability to organize the local sections of the National front.

It turns over to France in 1991. Victim of a crisis of inspiration, it does not manage to find the motivation to publish new novels and finds a time with unemployment, following its dismissal of Minute . He is the only author of reputation of the Black series not to be republished at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the collection in 1997. He publishes in 2003 a new work being held within an Australian framework, Kangouroad movie , which, after a long absence, marks its true return to the detective novel.

He considered the drafting, before the final aggravation of his disease, of a test on the writer Jacques Perret.

In 2007, a last novel is published in a posthumous way I already gave… to to the editions the Dilettante. This one is a kind of apotheosis romantic where the principal heroes of its preceding novels find themselves.

The journalist of extreme right-hand side

Simultaneously with its career of writer, he exerted the journalistic profession for the socialist press, gaullist and anarchist of right-hand side:

1966 : freelance journalist with the socialist Alarm clock , of the socialist former minister Jean Miller;
1968 : editor association of Revolution 70 ;
of 1972 with 1973: chronicler with Actual-Hebdo ;

Finally for the press known as of extreme right-hand side where it was successively:

of 1974 with 1981: journalist then international reporter for the weekly magazine Minute ;
during the Years 1980: founder of Combat calédonien , weekly anti-freedom fighter in New Caledonia, where he will have lived of 1981 with 1991. Its participation, during one year, with this adventure of press will be worth to A.D.G. a certain number of fines and judgments, A.D.G. ending up declaring fixed price, while Edgard Pisani, target favorite of the weekly magazine, also somewhat left him “éreinté” this period;
of 1991 with 1994: chronicler with Minute;
since 1994: member of the drafting of the weekly magazine Rivarol , of which he will become general secretary in 1998, and for which he still worked a year before his disappearance, until the aggravation of its disease does not force it to move away. He collaborated in the Literary Figaro in 2003-2004.

Funerals of A.D.G., celebrated on November 5th, 2004 in the church Saint-Eugene Holy-Cecile with Paris, before its burial in its native soil of Véretz, gave the opportunity to see joined together various “national” line personalities, separated since the crisis occurred with the National front in 1998 - 1999. One thus could see, for example, in the assistance, without them being differently côtoyés that by their common presence, Jean-Marie Le Pen, president of the National front, and Serge Martinez (which were general secretary of the secessionist National front), Marine Le Pen and her older sister Marie-Caroline Le Pen (it also having followed the adventure “megretist”), but still various personalities such as Emmanuel Ratier, Yann Clerc, Dominique Jamet or Jean Raspail. The weekly magazine Rivarol titrated besides its report of funerals “A.D.G. the federator”, to undoubtedly refer to the attitude of its journalist who, during the crisis of 1998-1999, had stuck if not “to restick the pieces”, at least with not envenimer the conflict.

Anecdotes

The lawyer Pascal Delcroix, character recurring of several of his novels, was seen by certain as inspired by Eric Delcroix, defender frequent of the negationnists. However, according to A.D.G. itself, it acted only of one coincidence, the character being inspired by one of his/her friends (the father of Loïc Decrauze). In the same way, it was reproached for having dedicated its book Joujoux on the stone " with Jean-Marie, my p' tit mec". It was not about an address with Jean-Marie Le Pen as that was written, but with the son of A.D.G., fore-mentioned thus in homage to his/her grandfather.

Other achievements

In addition to the novel and journalism, A.D.G. also wrote scenarios of Cartoon, in particular in the monthly magazine Pilote, and of the serials for television ( Chéri Bibi adapted novel of Gaston Leroux and diffused 1973, the mysteries of New York writes in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Richard and diffused in 1976).

In 1981, it is the cause of a mini scandal following the publication in an special issue of the newspaper (To be followed) of a Cartoon, Léopold Micheteau, detective , of which he is the scenario writer and Benoît Sokal the draftsman. Certain readers there having perceived some features anti-semitism, the direction made appear a few weeks later an embarrassed leading article in which it presented its excuses. Physics of the characters Jews, source of the polemic, were however due only to the drawings of Sokal and by no means blamed the scenario of A.D.G.

Works

1969: Open letter with a magistraillon (Micberth, Illustrations of Bernard Deyriès).
1971 : Divine Surprised the (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1429, rééd. as a coll “Square Black”, n° 545)
1971: Panadeux (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1443, rééd. as a coll “Square Black”, n° 518)
1972: Walk Fakes… (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1473, rééd. as a coll “Square Black”, n° 554)
1972: the Night of the large sick dogs (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1482, rééd. as a coll “Folio”, n° 2224) - adapted to the cinema under the title Some too quiet Sirs
1972: Three Badours (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, rééd. as a coll “police Folio”, n° 229)
1973: Cradoque' S band (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1493, rééd. as a coll “Square Black”, n° 373)
1973: Berry Story (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1586)
1974: I am a black novel (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1692, rééd. as a coll “Square Black”, n° 468)
1976: the hostage is without pity (Gallimard, Super coll “black”, n° 43)
1977: the Large Kid (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1717) - Title which was a discrete homage to its homonym Alain-Baker)
1977: Just funny a (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1721, rééd. as a coll “Square Black”, n° 506)
1980: to avenge pépère (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1806, rééd. as a coll “police Folio”, n° 153)
1980: Investigations of the inspector Alfred Beaugat (Dargaud, coll “Controls”) - Scenario of texts of A.D.G., drawings of Loro and North - Joins together: an Adventure of the inspector Alfred Beaugat , Dirty Large Meaulnes , the Beaugat Inspector goes up to Paris and Fripe-cask against Licks-douzils
1981: the short-sighted Night (Balland, coll “the romantic Moment”, rééd. in 2003 at Christian Lasting, “Pocket-numerical” coll)
1981: negro Balls (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1825)
1982: One is not dogs (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 1862, rééd. as a coll “police Folio”, n° 189)
1986: Our brother which are odious… (Gallimard, coll “Square Black”, rééd. as a coll “police Folio”, n° 171)
1987: Toys on the stone (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 2089) “Romance calédonien” of policy-fiction dedicated to Jean-Marie Le Pen
1987: the Great South (Jean-Claude Lattès) Romance of adventures New Caledonian
1988: Nickelled Tickets (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 2124)
1988: It is the bagne! (Gallimard, coll “Black series”, n° 2134)
2003: Kangouroad movie (Gallimard, coll “the Black one”) thriller Australian
2007: I already gave (the Dilettante, 278pp)

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