1966: Honoré de Balzac
Paris, Éditions du Sud and Albin Michel, coll. « Vies et Visages », 112 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation.
1965 : La Vie de Schubert (Schubert musicien par Michel-R. Hofmann)
Textes et documents, Paris, Éditions du Sud et A. Michel. Note: Awaiting annotation.
1964: La Vie de Chopin
Variétés, Paris, Éditions du Sud. Note: Awaiting annotation.
1964: Rêve de feu
Hachette, coll. le rayon fantastique n°124, 238 pages. “Is Prometheus guilty? Did the inventor of fire, who gave humanity its best defense, precipitate it down the fatal slope of atomic war, then cosmic war?” In a techno-fascist Paris of the third millennium, a young girl dreams too much. And finds herself, in a cataleptic sleep,…
1964 : Y a-t-il encore des hommes ?
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1964: Emily Brontë
Pierre Seghers, coll. Poètes d’aujourd’hui n°120, 190 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation.
1964: Chienne de jeunesse
Paris, Julliard, 376 pages. This first volume of his memoirs revisits his childhood, up to 1944. It opens with Green Paradise, in which the Garden plays a key role as God’s finished work on earth. It is “the natural state of a beloved child, well nourished, in immediate contact with nature“. Then, with the move…
1963: La Vie des grands peintres français
Paris, Éditions du Sud, Albin Michel. Texts by Yvonne Deslandres, Françoise d’Eaubonne, Henry Certign … [et al.]; edited by Pierre Waleffe, whom Françoise would meet on many books during these years. Again, painting, which was to run through all his work, can be found in his style, from Le cœur de Watteau (1944) to Histoire…
1963: Jusqu’à la gauche
Paris, Buchet / Chastel, 391 pages. This book can be seen as the sequel to Je voulais être une femme, published the previous year. In any case, the literary process employed here is similar. In this opus, our heroine immerses herself in the resistance to the Algerian war, and the epic is picaresque: Mamerloy, one…