1955: Le Ministère des vains désirs
Nouvelles éditions Debresse, coll. série « de cape et d’Idée », Paris, 104 pages Note: Awaiting annotation.
1954: La Hollandaise volante
Broadcast by Radio-Lille. Probably lost, so we can only speculate on this Flying Dutchwoman. The Flying Dutchman is the archetype of ghost ships, prominently featured in the tales and legends passed down and still passed down to seafarers. It represents the fatal omen to not cross on one’s voyage, because it is a boat whose…
1954 : Le Quadrille des matamores
Plon Note: Awaiting annotation.
1954: Une pomme rouge : mon cœur
Paris, Pierre Seghers (coll. Poésie 54 n°374), 15 pages. Titled with a verse by Nazim Hickmet and dedicated to Henri Lefèbvre, nine poems in three sections. The first on love, its struggles and its sufferings, the second in memory of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (four years later, Françoise will choose “Julius” as a middle name…
1953: Atalante délivrée
Probably a lost work, we can only speculate as to its content. In this book, published two years after Le Complexe de Diane, we will certainly be dealing with the Greek heroine Atalanta, educated by Artemis after being abandoned by her father. She is reputed to have lived in ancient Greece, initially refusing marriage and…
1953 : Les Yeux du paradis
Toulouse, Julia Printing House, January 20, 1953, 28 pages, 120 copies An eighteen-page fantasy tale based on a screenplay by Jean Lakanal, with the remaining ten pages devoted to titles, flyleaves, quotations, etc. The plot is of only moderate interest, vacillating between various influences (Poe, Nerval, etc.) to superficially address a few metaphysical questions. Françoise,…
1952: Ivelle
Julliard, 272 pages. Ivelle is the story of a young girl of today. An ardent, restless soul, thirsting for justice… She believes she has discovered a kind of superman in Yvon, who sees himself as the founder of a new philosophy… She follows him to Paris, to the circles of Saint-Germain-des-Prés… She soon finds herself…
1951 : Le Complexe de Diane ; érotisme ou féminisme
Paris, Julliard, 301 pages. In response to the male and conservative criticism leveled at Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex , Françoise d’Eaubonne, a successful young novelist, responded with this book written in a few weeks and published with much hoopla by Julliard in 1951. In this text, Françoise rushes to the front with the…
1951: Démons et merveilles
Paris, Pierre Seghers (coll. Poésie 51 n°137), 35 pages. “A collection of very short poems, very hermetic (I constantly have to look up words and allusions) and very erudite (one expects nothing less from Françoise d’Eaubonne 🙂 ). Classical and traditional, it didn’t fill me with the same wonder as some of her other (too…