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Jacques Spitz
Jacques Spitz (1 October 1896 – 16 January 1963) was a French novelist.
Born on 1 October 1896 in Nemours (now Ghazaouet, in Algeria), Spitz was an engineer; he wrote several science fiction novels which were greatly influential in European science fiction. Cynical, ironic, often pessimist, influenced by Surrealism, his style is reminiscent of Pierre Boulle's. Although some of his novels were reissued in France
, he is mostly forgotten and his novels are very difficult to find, even
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