He was noticed very young by Jean Paulhan who published his first texts in La Nouvelle Revue française.
In 1959, his first novel, Les Fils de Rois, inaugurated the series "Le Chemin" (Gallimard) directed by Georges Lambrichs, obtained the Prix Fénéon and missed the Prix Médicis by one vote behind Claude Mauriac.
His fourth novel Mano l'Archange, although unanimously hailed by the critic whose first defender was Kleber Haedens, was banned from sale for "harm to good morals".
On the sidelines of a noted literary work[3] and devoted to the sensual aspect of human relations, Jacques Serguine is also the author of the famous Cruelle Zélande and Éloge de la fessée (Folio Gallimard) which has been said to have given their letters of nobility to this erotic fantasy.
My friends say that I am an uncouth bear, an animal which, with time, has become my totem, so I always lived on the fringe of the literary milieu".