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Le Original title Contre-Violence ou la résistance à l’Etat, translation by Regina Weiss, München: Trikont Verlag, 1978, 149 pages A publication which, for reasons of content and editing, seems as dubious as it is confusing, and must be viewed extremely critically. We will confine ourselves to three quotations. Editor’s note: “Feminism and ‘terror’ is primarily a…
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Le Original title Le satellite de l’amande, translation by Uli Aumüller, Rowohlt, coll. neue frau, 126 pages. All the men have disappeared. That is to say: all the males. In this novel, where they reproduce by ectogenesis (a means of reproduction that allows them to do without men), women, after having brought life back to an…
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Le Original title Le féminisme ou la mort, translation by Gina Giert, Verlag, Frauenoffensive collection, 1975, 221 pages Françoise’s most famous book, in which she uses the term “ecofeminism” for the first time. Survival or destruction. Two plagues threaten the world: overpopulation and the destruction of nature. The man of the patriarchal system is responsible for…
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Le Original title Balzac que voici, translation by Julia Tardy-Marcus, Bertelsmann Lesering, 1966, 112 pages In her biographical essay, Françoise quotes, among others, Friedrich Engels who, in April 1888, wrote to Margaret Harkness about Balzac that his sympathies belonged “to the class doomed to perish” and that, yet, he had learned more from Balzac “than from…
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Le 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…
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Le Original title Les Tricheurs, translated by Roland Schacht, Paul List Verlag, München, 1960, 185 pages German translation of Les Tricheurs, Françoise’s novelization of Marcel Carné’s film starring Pascale Petit, Jacques Charrier and Laurent Terzieff.
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Le Original title Indomptable Murcie, translation by Franz Geiger, Franz Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich, 1950, 374 pages German translation of Indomptable Murcie. Although this book is dedicated to the soul of her father, it is her Spanish roots that Françoise evokes through the story of this woman dispossessed because she was a rebel, who, at the head…