François Wahl

François Wahl (born 13 May 1925 - 15 September 2014) was a French editor and structuralist.[1]

Biography

François Wahl was editor at the Éditions du Seuil, a publishing company in Paris.[2] He was the editor of Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, among others.[3]

He was involved in the publication of Tel Quel.[4] and he became friends with Roland Barthes and Philippe Sollers.[5] He was Severo Sarduy's partner until the latter's death.[2] He also taught French to Elie Wiesel in 1947.[6]

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.[7] Wahl met with controversy, compounded by the fact that he refused to publish more of Barthes's seminars.[7]

References

  1. ↑ L'éditeur François Wahl est mort (in French)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bill Marshall, France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Transatlantic Relations), ABC-CLIO Ltd, 2005, p.1045
  3. ↑ Francois Dosse and Deborah N. Glassman, History of Structuralism: The Sign Sets, 1967-Present v. 2, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, p. 78
  4. ↑ George Haggerty (ed.), Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures: 2, Routledge, 1999, p. 1192
  5. ↑ Emilio Bejel, Gay Cuban Nation, Chicago University Press, 2001, p. 32
  6. ↑ Maria G. Cattell and Jacob Climo, Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives, AltaMira Press, 2002, p. 331
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Jonathan Culler, Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp.110-112