In 1973 he published Le Fou dans la chaloupe at Éditions Grasset, a collection of three books of three long stories, and in 1974 the novel The Messengers , which won the Prix des Nouvelles littérares.

The author of an important work - one hundred short stories and nine novels published to date - Chateaureynaud builds a personal and poetic universe.

There is nothing gory or bloody in his writings, but a peculiar vision of the world and of society, which deliberately deviates from social observation and autofiction.

In particular, Châteaureynaud developed his ideas on fantasy in his preface to Divinités du Styx , an anthology of the stories of Marcel Schneider, one of his avowed models.

[1] On many occasions, Chateaureynaud thus expressed the high opinion that he, like Marcel Schneider, has of the prestige of fantastic, a literature according to him better able than the different realistic currents to grasp the reality of being.