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Jean Basile was the pen name of Jean Basile Bezroudnoff (1932 - February 10, 1992), a French-born Canadian journalist and novelist from Quebec.〔(Basile, Jean ), The Canadian Encyclopedia.〕 A key figure in the underground counterculture of Montreal in the 1960s and 1970s, he is most noted for his "Mongol" trilogy of novels, ''La Jument des mongols'', ''Le Grand Khan'' and ''Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk'', and for cofounding the counterculture magazine ''Mainmise''.〔("Jean Basile : Jean qui parle, Jean qui écrit" ). ''La Presse'', July 15, 2013.〕 Born in Paris, France to Russian immigrant parents in 1932,〔 he moved to Montreal in 1960.〔 ==Career== He joined ''Le Devoir'' as an arts and literary critic in 1962.〔 He left the paper in 1967, founding ''Mainmise'' with Georges Khal and Christian Allègre in 1970,〔W. H. New, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''. University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN 0802007619. Entry "Basile, Jean", p. 94.〕 before rejoining ''Le Devoir'' in 1973. ''La Jument des mongols'', the first novel in his Mongol trilogy, was published in 1964. It was followed by ''Le Grand Khan'' in 1967 and ''Les Voyages d'Irkoutsk'' in 1970. Basile was a gay man,〔Jonathan Lerner, ("That Whole Thing the Dead Come Out Of" ). Lambda Literary Foundation, July 29, 2010.〕 and the novels were noted for being among the first in Quebec literary history to openly address homosexuality.〔Guy Poirier, (Québécois Literature ). glbtq.com, February 24, 2007.〕 In an early issue of ''Mainmise'', he also called for the creation of a gay liberation movement in Montreal.〔 Some of his other works, including ''Coca et cocaine'' and ''La Culture du canabis'', addressed drug culture.〔 He also wrote ''Joli Tambour'', a historical drama play about the first hangman in New France.〔John Gassner and Edward Quinn, ''The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama''. Dover Publications, 2002. ISBN 978-0486420646. p. 111.〕 He became director of the Éditions de l'Aurore publishing house in 1976, and later established his own publishing company, Les Éditions Jean Basile, in 1979.〔 He joined ''La Presse'' in 1984.〔 He died in 1992 in Montreal.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Basile」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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