Christiane Rochefort | |
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| Born | 17 July 1917 |
| Died | 24 April 1998 (aged 80) |
| Occupation | French writer |
Christiane Rochefort (17 July 1917 – 24 April 1998) [1] was a French feminist writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. [2] [3] Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the Cannes Film Festival before publishing her first novel, Le Repos du guerrier ( The Warrior's Rest), in 1958. Like several of her later novels, Le Repos du guerrier was a bestseller; in 1962 it was adapted into a popular film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot. [1] [4] Her novels are divided between social realist satires set in present-day France and utopian or dystopian fantasies. [5] She won the Prix Médicis in 1988. Rochefort's novels also have strong sexual elements. [6]
Novels
- Cendres et or" (1956)
- Le repos du guerrier (1958) – Warrior's Rest (translated by Lowell Bair, 1959)
- Les petits enfants du siècle (1961) – Children of Heaven (translated by Linda Asher, 1962)/Josyane and the Welfare (translated by Edward Hyams, 1963)
- Les stances à Sophie (1963) - Cat's Don't Care for Money (translated by Helen Eustis, 1965) [7]
- Une rose pour Morrison (1966) (dedicated to Mister Bob Dylan)
- Printemps au parking (1969)
- Archaos, ou le Jardin Etincelant (1972)
- Encore heureux qu'on va vers l'été (1975)
- Quand tu vas chez les femmes (1982)
- La porte du fond (1988) Prix Médicis (dedicated to Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson)
- Conversations sans paroles (1997)
See also
References
- ^ a b "Christiane Rochefort: Information from Answers.com". answers.com. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
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^ Marwick, Arthur (1 January 2002).
The Arts in the West Since 1945. Oxford University Press. p.
115.
ISBN
9780192892669.
%22Christiane%20Rochefort%22%20warrior's.
- ^ Aldrich, R.; Wotherspoon, G. (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. Vol. 2. Routledge. p. 356. ISBN 9780415229746. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
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^ Marwick, Arthur (1 January 2002).
The Arts in the West Since 1945. Oxford University Press. p.
115.
ISBN
9780192892669.
%22Christiane%20Rochefort%22%20warrior's.
- ^ Holmes, Diana (12 January 2000). French Women's Writing 1848-1994. A&C Black. ISBN 9781847141002.
- ^ Alex Hughes, "Erotic Writing" in Hughes and Keith Reader, Encyclopaedia of contemporary French culture, (pp. 187-88). London, Routledge, 1998, ISBN 0415131863
- ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Christiane Rochefort". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 27 June 2014.
Bibliography
- Jean-Louis de Rambures, "Comment travaillent les écrivains", Paris 1978 (interview with Ch. Rochefort, in French)
External links
- (in French) Christiane Rochefort: Les enfants d'abord
- An extract from Les Petits Enfants du siècle
- Margaret-Anne Hutton: Countering The Culture: The Novels of Christiane Rochefort
- (in French) Isabelle Constant: Les mots étincelants de Christiane Rochefort: langages d'utopie
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