François Wahl

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François Wahl (born 1925) is a French editor and structuralist.

Biography

François Wahl was editor at the Éditions du Seuil, a publishing company in Paris.[1] He was the editor of Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, among others.[2]

He was involved in the publication of Tel Quel.[3] and he became friends with Roland Barthes and Philippe Sollers.[4] He was Severo Sarduy's partner until the latter's death.[1] He also taught French to Elie Wiesel in 1947.[5]

In 1987, Wahl, acting as Roland Barthes's literary executor, published his essays Incidents, which tells of his homosexual bouts with Moroccan young men, and Soirées de Paris, which chronicles his difficulty to find a male lover in Paris.[6] Wahl met with controversy, compounded by the fact that he refused to publish more of Barthes's seminars.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bill Marshall, France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Transatlantic Relations), ABC-CLIO Ltd, 2005, p.1045
  2. ↑ Francois Dosse and Deborah N. Glassman, History of Structuralism: The Sign Sets, 1967-Present v. 2, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, p. 78
  3. ↑ George Haggerty (ed.), Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures: 2, Routledge, 1999, p. 1192
  4. ↑ Emilio Bejel, Gay Cuban Nation, Chicago University Press, 2001, p. 32
  5. ↑ Maria G. Cattell and Jacob Climo, Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives, AltaMira Press, 2002, p. 331
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Jonathan Culler, Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp.110-112
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