Paris, Buchet-Chastel, 278 pages. "A writer (for want of a better word) with particular tastes in love, Nathan chooses to transpose himself into a female character to talk about his obsessions. ......... This is a novel with a double bottom, a game of mirrors in which...
Paris, Les Editions du Sud, 345 pages This biographical novel begins with a 3-page introduction, Le 19ème siècle et le triomphe de la bourgeoisie, which ends as follows: "Certainly, from 1830 to the first decades of our 20th century, this was the golden age of the...
Paris, Éditions du Sud, Albin Michel, 335 pages "Just as Jacobin and Napoleonic expansion had tended to liberate peoples before giving them a new discipline, the School of Five broke the chains with which Italian and Classical tyranny had burdened the realm of music;...
Éditions Renacimiento, 283 pages Spanish translation of Je m'appelle Kristine by Leonor T. de Paiz. 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...
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...
Paris, Buchet / Chastel, 377 pages. " ... Et c'est ainsi que je vais dans la vie, avançant par à-coups, grondant et crachant le feu ; tantôt fuyant un hôtel et un salaud, tantôt écoutant une clarinette, tantôt épongeant les vomissuresd'un ivrogne ; mais toujjours...
Hachette, coll. le rayon fantastique n°88, 307 pages. Perhaps for the first time in the history of science fiction (ed. note: 1962), the hero - the spaceship pilot - is a woman! Tellur has received his mission from the old mage of a planet thought to be insignificant....
Hachette, coll. le rayon fantastique n°99, 261 pages. In the 30th century, other thinking races in the galaxy joined Humanity to form the great "anthropomorphic" confederation, centered on the planet Phaedra. But one race, born of monstrous crossbreeding, possesses,...
Hachette, coll. Bibliothèque verte n°208, 249 pages. Françoise was very influenced by the venerable Hugo, and, in particular, his vision of the Vendée wars. This is why, while siding with the Republic, it paints a picture that is not Manichean. She also moves certain...