1959 : Rebell Rimbaud

by | Updated on 09/06/2025 | Published on 04/06/1959 | 2.1 Bibliographies, German

Original title La vie passionnée d’Arthur Rimbaud, translation by Karl August Horst, München, Paul List Verlag 1959, 526 Seiten

In this book, Françoise shows not only the poet, but above all the man Rimbaud in all the ups and downs of his life, with his vices, his eruptions of character. Rimbaud’s genius shines through, with his eruptive temperament, his absolute loyalty to himself, his mockery of all bourgeois morality, and his transformation from poet to pure merchant, interested only in making money in Abyssinia as an arms dealer.

 

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1959 : I Bari

by | Updated on 10/06/2025 | Published on 04/06/1959 | 2.1 Bibliographies, Italian

Editore Lerici, Milan.

Italian translation of Les Tricheurs, Françoise’s novelization of Marcel Carné’s film starring Pascale Petit, Jacques Charrier and Laurent Terzieff.

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1959 : Os Trapaceiros

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Publisher Ibrasa (Brazil), 240 pages

Translation into Brazilian Portuguese by José Aleixo Delagnelo of Les Tricheurs, Françoise’s novelization of Marcel Carné’s film starring Pascale Petit, Jacques Charrier and Laurent Terzieff.

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1951: A flight of a Falcon

by | Updated on 09/06/2025 | Published on 04/05/1951 | 2.1 Bibliographies, English

McGraw-Hill Book Company.

English translation by Naomi Walford of Comme un vol de gerfauts. Awarded the Prix des Lecteurs in 1947, this long novel heralds the themes and forms dear to Françoise’s heart, which were to recur throughout her novels. The sea, its buccaneering and shipwrecks (at her request, Françoise’s ashes will be scattered by a sailing ship off the Morbihan), and above all the historical novel transformed into a psychological narrative, because it seemed to her that this form was “more accessible to our modern sensibility”, as she says in the introduction. Hence our feeling, according to Élise Thiébaut, “of living the adventures from the inside”, reinforced by striking, highly pictorial descriptions. (Vincent)

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