1963 : Todos somos culpables
Grupo Planeta, Circulo de Lectores. Spanish translation by Fernando Gutierrez of Les Tricheurs, Françoise’s novelization of Marcel Carné’s film starring Pascale Petit, Jacques Charrier and Laurent Terzieff.
1963 : ha-Nokhlim
Editor Hadar hotsa’at sefarim ? Tel-Aviv ? Hebrew translation of Les Tricheurs, Françoise’s novelization of Marcel Carné’s film.
1963 : Niepokoj zycie Verlaine’a,
Czytelnik Publishing, Warsaw Polish translation of La Vie passionnée de Verlaine. Note: Awaiting annotation.
1963: La Vie des grands peintres français
Paris, Éditions du Sud, Albin Michel. Texts by Yvonne Deslandres, Françoise d’Eaubonne, Henry Certign … [et al.]; edited by Pierre Waleffe, whom Françoise would meet on many books during these years. Again, painting, which was to run through all his work, can be found in his style, from Le cœur de Watteau (1944) to Histoire…
1963: Jusqu’à la gauche
Paris, Buchet / Chastel, 391 pages. This book can be seen as the sequel to Je voulais être une femme, published the previous year. In any case, the literary process employed here is similar. In this opus, our heroine immerses herself in the resistance to the Algerian war, and the epic is picaresque: Mamerloy, one…
1963: Bonne nuit, cher prince
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…
1963: Balzac que voici
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 bourgeoisie, with that unpleasant nightmare of the Commune, a…
1963: La Vie de Franz Liszt
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,…
1962 : Cristina de Suecia
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 transparent clues that she left that will invalidate this observation. One could think…