1981 : Ni lieu ni mètre ou une saison au purgatoire
Samisdat, self-publishing, 16 pages.
Collection of poems. Note: Awaiting annotation.
Samisdat, self-publishing, 16 pages.
Collection of poems. Note: Awaiting annotation.
Original title Contre-Violence ou la résistance à l’Etat, translation by Regina Weiss, München: Trikont Verlag, 1978, 149 pages A publication which, for reasons of content and editing, seems as dubious as it is confusing, and must be viewed extremely critically. We will confine ourselves to three quotations. Editor’s note: “Feminism and ‘terror’ is primarily a…
Schocken Books, USA Partial translation by Ynestra King in New French Feminisms: An Anthology of Françoise’s best-known book, Le Féminisme ou la Mort, in which she uses the neologism “ecofeminism” for the first time.
Éditions Seghers, Paris, 220 pages. In 1946, published by Éditions du Scorpion, a book by Vernon Sullivan bearing this title. Deemed scandalous, it was then the subject of a lawsuit brought by a Cartel for social and moral action, which revealed that its real author was Boris Vian. He will be sentenced to 15 days…
Czytelnik Publishing, Warsaw Polish translation of La Vie passionnée de Verlaine. Note: Awaiting annotation.
Paris, Editions de Magrie, 208 pages. Collection les Nuées Volantes. Françoise gives us a refined, deep and sensitive novel. In a lost locality in Brittany, a writer tries to escape her demons, but a very innocent investigator, more or less manipulated by her boss, comes to upset her nightmares. “Powerful, moving, with a rare sensitivity”…
Éditions Albin Michel, Paris, 285 pages. Reissue titled Moi, Kristine, reine de Suède, 1979 The Memoirs of Hadrian , Marguerite Yourcenar’s monumental work published 7 years earlier, can only come to mind when reading Françoise’s novel. And it is not the transparent clues that she left that will invalidate this observation. One could think of…