1963: La Vie de Franz Liszt

by | Updated on 04/05/2025 | Published on 04/05/1963 | 1962-1973 Je voulais être une femme, 2.1 Bibliographies, Fictional biographies

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; in this sense Balakirev and his satellites, Borodin, Moussorgsky, César Cui, Rimsky-Korsakov were the heirs … of the French Berlioz and the Frenchized Hungarian Franz Lizt. The former was dead: the latter recognized his own. …

…Franz Lizt represents the second generation of musical Romanticism. …Freedom of interpretation, a legacy of 19th-century Romantic individualism, is an achievement due to Lizt and him alone. “

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1962 : Eros Noir

by | Updated on 04/05/2025 | Published on 04/05/1962 | 1962-1973 Je voulais être une femme, 2.1 Bibliographies, Literature essays

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 are also evoked.

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1962: Je voulais être une femme

by | Updated on 04/05/2025 | Published on 04/05/1962 | 1962-1973 Je voulais être une femme, 2.1 Bibliographies, Philosophical essays

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 plongeant dans l’intimité des maisons aux fenêtres éclairées ou sombres, ou à l’intérieur des terres ou je passe, et dont j’apprends les nerfs, les fibres végétales, les os de pierre et le pelage qui exprime une âcre et délicieuse odeur de feuilles, ce regard dont la seule mort pourra éteindre la curiosité et peut-être l’assouvir. … “

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1962: Les Sept Fils de l’étoile

by | Updated on 04/05/2025 | Published on 04/05/1962 | 1962-1973 Je voulais être une femme, 2.1 Bibliographies, Science fiction

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. Seven worlds are on his agenda, seven stars each with a civilization that prefigures the future of human civilization.

An extraordinary odyssey for this young woman. Seven planets. Six loves and seven children of mystery and prodigy… for destiny to be fulfilled…

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1962: L’Échiquier du Temps

by | Updated on 04/05/2025 | Published on 04/05/1962 | 1962-1973 Je voulais être une femme, 2.1 Bibliographies, Science fiction

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, along with thought, the most hideously opposite form to that of Man.

Is Fausta, the young Barbarian, an Earthling of the old race, destined to triumph over the horrific threat posed by these Saurionnides, enemies of the human kinds?

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1962: L’Amazone bleue

by | Updated on 18/10/2024 | Published on 04/05/1962 | 1962-1973 Je voulais être une femme, 2.1 Bibliographies, Youth

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 protagonists of her story from one camp to another, whose figurehead is a young woman who fights and plots, finding herself wherever the destiny of France is at stake. (Vincent)

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