Béraud, Henri
Entry updated 7 October 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1885-1958) French journalist and author, active from 1903, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1922 but now remembered more vividly for the contumelious anti-semitic anglophobic journalism he produced in support of the Vichy regime in France during World War Two, for which he was sentenced to death (sentence commuted).
At least two of his novels make use of sf topoi, though tentatively. Lazare (1924; trans Eric Sutton 1925; trans vt Lazarus 1925), where a case of profound Amnesia evokes the presence of Doppelgangers in one psychically tormented mind. Le Bois du templier perdu (1926; trans Samuel Sloan as The Wood of the Hanging Templar 1930), which traces the Reincarnations of its unjustly executed protagonist from the time of the Black Death (see Pandemic) through the centuries until the French Revolution. [JC]
Henry Béraud
born Lyon, France: 21 September 1885
died Clément-de Baleines, Ré Island, France: 24 October 1958
works (highly selected)
- Lazare (Paris: Albin Michel, 1924) [pb/nonpictorial]
- Le Bois du templier perdu (Paris: Les Éditions de France, 1926) [binding unknown/]
- The Wood of the Hanging Templar: (Le Bois du templier perdu) (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930) [trans by Samuel Sloan of the above: hb/Gorska]
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