Bernard Delambre

Bernard Delambre experienced a difficult childhood, including time spent in Parisian prisons, cults, and the art world, and explored a wide range of spiritual currents. In these pages, sometimes humorous, sometimes moving, he recounts a personal journey filled with anecdotes, answering the many questions surrounding his Auroville adventure. Director of the Auroville Art Centre, after thirty-four years of permanent residence in Auroville, India, he now devotes most of his time to writing.

In this second account, the author takes us along the paths that led him in 1969 to Auroville, this utopian city, founded on February 21, 1968. At a time when the media are talking extensively about Auroville, offering reports that are not always accurate, it is interesting to discover, through these pages, a particular journey by one of the pioneers who founded this experiment of a new community life that continues in southern India, near Pondicherry.


December 2022

In this story, the author evokes the initiatory journey of a young man in search of his reason for being, starting from a prison cell where he was twenty years old.

Torn between a deep aspiration to live a high ideal and the vital need to heal the wounds of his childhood, he confides in these sometimes moving pages the intimate behind-the-scenes of an unusual journey.


April 2021

It was around 2350. The Earth had changed after the "catastrophe," yet remained essentially the same. It was the end of the technological age. Mutant-like beings, still human, had emerged within a regressive humanity.
Alexandre, a solitary herbalist, fleeing his contemporaries who, like him, were survivors of this upheaval, one day encountered the unexpected in the form of a child, a shepherd endowed with extraordinary abilities; an encounter that would brutally change his destiny.
This would be the beginning of the Legend.
The beginning of the adventure.
Along with a few others, he will be drawn to the Land of the Sun-Eyed Men, for whom the laws of Nature no longer apply. He will depart for an island where Soranil, the Queen who conquered Death, resides.
But Alexandre does not yet know what role he will play with one of the island's inhabitants, Joycha, his lifelong companion.
January 2021