Alice Becker-Ho


Alice Becker-Ho , is the author of Les Princes du Jargon, as well as numerous works of poetry.

Early life

Becker-Ho was born in Shanghai, her mother Chinese, her father, originally from Alsace-Lorraine, a territory under dispute between France and Germany until the end of the First World War, claimed French citizenship. In 1947 her father moved the family to France.

Career

Later, in 1963 Becker-Ho became involved in the Situationist International. She began what would be a long lasting relationship with Guy Debord, they married August 5, 1972. Together they published Le Jeu de la Guerre in 1987, an expanded edition of which was republished by éditions Gallimard, Paris, in 2006. An English edition appeared in 2008. She was his partner until his death in 1994.
in 1990.
Becker-Ho has published numerous works of poetry in French: D'azur au triangle vidé de sable ; Paroles de Gitans ; Au Pays du sommeil paradoxal.
She has written a rigorous account of the various slang speech in Western Europe in her trilogy Les Princes du Jargon, translated as The Princes of Jargon by John McHale, L’Essence du Jargon, and Du Jargon, héritier en bastardie. She also authored Au Pays du Sommeil Paradoxal and Là s'en vont les seigneuries.
In 2014, she published Le premier ghetto ou l'exemplarité vénitienne. In 2018, she published La part maudite dans l'œuvre de François Villon.
After Debord's death in 1994, Alice Becker-Ho assembled his letters and published them with Fayard as a three volume Correspondance.

Selected works