1982 : Je ne suis pas née pour mourir

by | Updated on 18/10/2024 | Published on 05/08/1982 | 1980-1995, JI was not born to die, 2.1 Bibliographies, Historical novels

Paris, Denoël/Gonthier, 286 pages

This 1982 novel tells the story of an Amazon, Thécla, who, after drinking a certain potion, goes through time and encounters great moments in history. For the first time, the myth of immortality is embodied by a woman. This prodigious adventure novel leads us to meet Alexander the Great, to the discovery of America by the Vikings, to the formidable machines designed by Leonardo da Vinci, to the war in Vendée,… up to Nazism and then to May-68.

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1981 : L’impératrice Rouge : Moi, Jiang Quing, veuve Mao

by | Updated on 17/12/2025 | Published on 07/08/1981 | 1980-1995, JI was not born to die, 2.1 Bibliographies, Fictional biographies

Encre, Paris, 264 pages.

Françoise traces the complex destiny of Madame Mao Zedong, from teenage actress to power-hungry woman who was “the first woman in the world to rule over so many men”. Between the courageous revolutionary and the bloody imprincess, her story is told in the first person.

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1978 : L’Indicateur du réseau

by | Updated on 18/10/2024 | Published on 05/08/1980 | 1980-1995, JI was not born to die, 2.1 Bibliographies, Autobiographies

Paris, Encre, 350 pages.

The third volume of Françoise d’Eaubonne’s memoirs, L’Indicateur du réseau traces important events in her life starting from the names of the places where they took place: with humour, she speaks of a “topographical assessment”. The story advances along the alphabetical thread of station names, and we meet her successively at different ages in her life: her childhood, her family, her loved ones, the war, her first relationships – more than failed – with men, her books, her writing, her struggles. We learn in this memoir how much writing is, for her, a weapon of resistance.

This text has so far never been published in its entirety. In the still unpublished part (submitted to IMEC), Françoise, emphasizing her “fervor for this counter-literature that is Science Fiction”, specified that science fiction, “like everything that is against, rejuvenates and refreshes the old form, and that is why I choose here the name of counter-memorials”. (Aurore and Alain)

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