Miscellaneous novels

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 a person moves relentlessly from life to dream, and…

Paris, Albin Michel, 377 pages. In this edgy novel, the illusions of love intertwine with the horrors of the century that left their mark on Françoise: the concentration camps, the Rosenbergs (she’ll give me Julius as a middle name in their memory), the political struggles in the Paris of those years. It’s also the story…

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…

Paris, Éditions Seghers, 255 pages. Novelization of Marcel Carné’s film starring Pascale Petit, Jacques Charier and Laurent Terzieff. The book was reissued by L’Inter in 1970.

Paris, Édition Rombaldi, coll. Le club de la Femme. Here, a novel with Cyranesque accents, which is worth it for its detailed and colorful descriptions of Verona in the 15th century. Apart from that, it’s a book to support herself financially, written without passion. Living from her pen, without financial support, position or husband, may…

Paris, Éditions de Paris, coll. série blonde, 249 pages. Spain again. This sentimental novel hides under an apparent lightness memories of Françoise’s youth: the war in Spain, the Campaign in France. The novel’s heroine hides a secret, and a fiery soul not unlike that of the author. The secondary characters are probably drawn from a…

Nouvelles éditions Debresse, coll. série « de cape et d’Idée », Paris, 104 pages Note: Awaiting annotation.

Plon Note: Awaiting annotation.

Probably a lost work, we can only speculate as to its content. In this book, published two years after Le Complexe de Diane, we will certainly be dealing with the Greek heroine Atalanta, educated by Artemis after being abandoned by her father. She is reputed to have lived in ancient Greece, initially refusing marriage and…