2000 : La Plume et le Bâillon – Violette Leduc, Nicolas Genka, Jean Sénac, trois écrivains victimes de la censure
Paris, L’Esprit Frappeur, 136 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation.
1997 : La Liseuse et la Lyre
Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 192 pages. In this intimate essay, Françoise returns to her passion for words. Not by navel-gazing, as René de Ceccatty rightly said in a literary review of Le Monde in 1997, but to remind us of Danièlle Sallenave’s saying: “The book does not replace anything, but nothing replaces the book”. La…
1986 : Une femme nommée Castor – Mon amie Simone de Beauvoir
Paris, Encre, 366 pages. Shocked by the disappearance of Simone de Beauvoir in 1986, in this book Françoise insisted on describing for us the one whose The Second Sex had marked her so much. The friendship that united them, Beauvoir’s literary work and his intimate relationship with Sartre, as well as the few theoretical disagreements…
1970 : Les Écrivains en cage
Paris, André Balland, 230 pages. Note: Awaiting annotation.
1962 : Eros Noir
Paris, Le Terrain Vague, 326 pages. Dedicated to Christiane Rochefort, whose “Repos du guerrier” was burned in a Catholic South American state. Book’s main subjects : Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740-1814) ; Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, (1836-1895) ; L’Arétin (1492-1556) ; Nicolas-Edme Rétif de La Bretonne (1734-1806). Many of the great figures of recent centuries…
1962: Les Plus Belles Lettres de Flaubert
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1962, 158 pages. Françoise saw in Flaubert the first of the bourgeois writers (with time and money) to have introduced what she considers to be the cardinal value of his class in literature:: investment in time (time is money). If she doesn’t forget his misogyny and the atrocious pages he wrote against the…
1960: Verlaine et Rimbaud ou la fausse évasion
Paris, Albin Michel, 304 pages. [As paradoxical as it may seem, I believe that Rimbaud’s and Verlaine’s connection has so far been very poorly studied in terms of its nature and deeper meaning. Until 1930, the question that agitated exegetes was that of homosexuality or Platonism; when the publication of the Dullaert dossier]…[vindicated Marcel Coulon]…[all…
1943 : Littérature n° 2
Paris, Julliard, collection Sequana, (190 pages ?) Texts and poems by : Robert Antelme, Gabriel Audisio, Jean Baudry, Pierre Béarn, André Berry, Claude Boncompain, Louise Bresson, Jeanne de Castro, Jean-Louis Curtis, Max Dietlin, Maurice Druon, Raymond Dumay, Françoise d’Eaubonne, Paul Gadenne, Kléber Haedens, Simone Jouglas, René Laporte, Jean Larcena, Henri Laville, René Lefèvre, Fernand Lequenne,…