Alain Gheerbrant

• Name — Alain Gheerbrant • Born — 27 December 1920 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 21 February 2013 • Place of death — Paris, France • Education — Lycée Saint-Jean-de-Passy • Occupation — Writer, poet, editor, explorer

Alain Gheerbrant was the first avant-garde publisher, founder of the publishing house K Éditeur, which published works by Antonin Artaud, Benjamin Péret, Georges Bataille, and Aimé Césaire. For the second edition of Story of the Eye by Bataille, Gheerbrant introduced Bataille to the German artist Hans Bellmer in May 1946: "It was tempting," says Gheerbrant, "to create a dialogue between a papist and a Lutheran on their common obsession. One's Nordic and surgical precision was made to give shape to the nocturnal and romantic imaginations of the other. The project took their common approval from the outset." The book was entirely rewritten by Bataille himself. From 1948 to 1950, Alain Gheerbrant led the Orinoco-Amazon expedition. He travelled through the basins of both rivers for two years and wrote of his travels in L'Expédition Orénoque-Amazone (The Orinoco-Amazon Expedition) (1952). He is considered the first Westerner to make peaceful contact with the Yanomami Indians and also the first to cross the Parima Mountains as he did between 1948 and 1950. In 1952, he directed a documentary film called Des hommes qu'on appelle sauvages.(Men We Call Savages) He produced numerous articles from all over the world and published Dictionnaire des symboles (Dictionary of Symbols)in 1982, a collaborative work with Jean Chevalier, an encyclopaedia of cultural anthropology about the symbolism of myths and folklore, which was republished nineteen times between 1982 and 1997. He authored an illustrated pocket book for the "Découvertes Gallimard" collection, titled L'Amazone, un géant blessé (The Amazon, A Wounded Giant) (1988), which has been translated into eleven languages including English. In 1995, he released his memoir entitled La Transversale (The Transverse).

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The following is established of origins and background. Gheerbrant died in 2013 at 12th arrondissement of Paris. Born in 1920 at 16th arrondissement of Paris. The record continues: alain Gheerbrant is recorded at birth as Alain Maximilien Marie Gaston Victor Gheerbrant.