#françoise mallet-joris

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

‎Françoise Mallet-Joris - The Witches - Farrar, Straus & Giroux - 1969 (jacket design by Diane and Leo Dillon)

#witches #the witches #occult #vintage #stories #farrar straus & giroux #françoise mallet-joris #diane and leo dillon #diane dillon #leo dillon #196

[morebedsidebooks]

The Illusionist by Françoise Mallet-Joris

“Often, too, she amused herself by staring into my eyes fixedly, until I would be obliged to look aside, thus implicitly admitting my inferiority. Sometimes I could hold out for a good minute, but I always ended up by giving way, and this defeat both exasperated me and gave me a confused indefinable pleasure. She enjoyed demanding my kisses at inopportune moments (as for instance when I was hurried or when she was expecting a visitor) and if I resisted, she triumphed over my objections by force. The very way she took me in her arms, the very methods of our love-making had changed. She forced me to comply to certain refinements of depravity which I would rather have avoided;”

  Le Rempart des Béguines (known in English under titles The Illusionist, The Loving and the Daring, and Into the Labyrinth) the 1951 debut novel by Belgium author Françoise Mallet-Joris is one of the more memorable novels to be viewed under the category of lesbian fiction. Indeed, one such pulp paperback tagline “a compelling novel of secret love” is fairly apt. Written only at 19 the book has endured, later in 1972 also adapted to film.

The story is written from the perspective of Hélène, an extremely lonely and emotionally neglected 15-and-a-half-year-old, falling into a toxic relationship with her father’s Russian mistress. Tamara, is a woman more than double Hélène’s age, running in bohemian libertine circles plus afoul of the hypocritical standards of the well-to-do of society.

First translated in 1952 the English translation by Herma Briffault reprinted in 2006 has a cover with the image of a lady, eyes obscured, in a well-tailored black dress with hat and pearls that gives a more sophisticated air versus some previous editions. Not entirely undeserved. The book is adroit when it comes to the inner life of its characters, teenage emotions especially. While Hélène is caught in an eroticized net of Tamara’s, women’s relationships are not being romanticized by Mallet-Joris. (Nor did she think of the relationship she wrote as a lesbian one.) Apparently, the plot was inspired by events involving a school friend of the author. Blurbs also compare the painted prose to the likes of Colette’s work. But when considering the story there was another parallel, I couldn’t help thinking of. Colette didn’t just write about a May-December relationship but in real life was a woman who seduced her stepson. Mallet-Joris as a teenager was caught in an affair with an older man and during her life had others, (including with women) and three marriages.

The edition also boasts an introduction by American literary scholar Terry Castle. Which at one-point touches on the story of a friend who had an experience akin to the character of Hélène. Later while the friend was seeing a psychiatrist, the psychiatrist “as if stating the obvious, she remarked ‘And now you will do the same to someone else.’” Castle writes “My friend made it her subsequent business to disprove the oracle”. Oracle?! How is that a fitting word? Words too do not begin to cover the psychiatrist’s statement and the damage of it either. Maybe survivors would not be so haunted by the possibility of perpetuating a cycle if society did not reinforce “the monster the monster creates”. I don’t believe Hélène qualifies as a monster at all. As if sexuality wasn’t complicated enough, so many people must sort through all types of traumas, stereotypes and how it does or doesn’t affect them. Insightfulness, identity (though not necessarily sexual), and maturity are at the fore of the novel. Castle’s also makes an assertion of the book that there is “not a trace of feminist sentiment— any residual notion Women are Somehow Better. Most of the time they seem Much Worse.”  This feels strange as well. Yes, a woman is at the zenith of brutal influence in this novel. Besides Tamara’s past mixing with events, abuse masquerades as a D/s dynamic. There are also various female side characters living their own complex lives one might evaluate too. Yet, Hélène begins to feel contempt for Tamara because of how Tamara gives in to security, submits and converts herself in a sexist, classist world. The myth of relationships between women being something higher than other forms is gender essentialism. So, one might do well to skim over the introduction.

Afterwards If one is curious of how the young Hélène fares after the ending, well there is a sequel The Red Room. Françoise Mallet-Joris while still a teen created a complex novel. Going on towards a notable career. Works of which are still compelling many years on.

  The Illusionist by Françoise Mallet-Joris is available in English, translation by Herma Briffault, in print and audio

#french literature #le rempart des béguines #the illusionist #françoise mallet-joris #20th century literature #francophone50 #cw: adult/minor relationship physical and emotional abuse classism sexism alcohol illness mention parent death victim-blaming

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« Grâce poétique » et œuvre d’art : méditations phénoménologiques dans le Journal de l’analogiste de Suzanne Lilar

Nataliya Lenina

#françoise mallet-joris #suzanne lilar #1954

[noraephronsmother]

forever changed by le rempart des beguines by françoise mallet-joris and absolutely no one knows it, i can’t even get hold of the movie adaptation, help

#it’s a lesbian book btw #the beguines 1972 #le rempart des beguines #the illusionist #françoise mallet joris

[duinlam]

“Mais non dites ça tu es sûr de rien. Mais jamais sûr de rien.”

Le Rempart des Béguines.

- Françoise Mallet-Joris -

Le Rempart des Béguines (1972) ‘The Beguines’.

Directed by Guy Casaril.

Anicée Alvina - Nicole Courcel

#Le Rempart des Béguines #The Beguines #cigarettebullet3498mm

[suis-nous]

#Marie-PauleBelle

[nicollekidman]

in the nyt article, she said her fave was Journey to a Woman by Ann Bannon & The Illusionist by Françoise Mallet-Joris. iirc, she also talked about how she loves winterson even b4 disobedience.

oh legend……………. alas it is i who did not read the nyt article…. 

#wig #Anonymous #i still think she read a shitton of fanfic

[whileiamdying]

A Nogent-sur-Marne, une belle sortie pour les artistes

L’écrivaine Françoise Mallet-Joris et le chanteur Jacques Higelin y ont notamment séjourné. Cet Ehpad du Val-de-Marne accueille en priorité des artistes. Un lieu unique, où les pensionnaires continuent de créer et d’exposer. from Arts : Toute l’actualité sur Le Monde.fr. https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2020/02/07/a-nogent-sur-marne-une-belle-sortie-pour-les-artistes_6028803_4500055.html via IFTTT

#IFTTT #Arts : Toute l’actualité sur Le Monde.fr. #français #France

[maddycatteau]

Inauguration du jardin Françoise Mallet-Joris avec ses enfants, petits-enfants et arrière-petits-enfants ainsi que Marie-Paule Belle.

[alquiblaweb]

Tal día como hoy, 6 de julio mostramos los natalicios y fallecimientos de los escritores más destacados:

1533 Muere Ludovico Ariosto, poeta italiano 1859 Nace Verner von Heidenstam, escritor sueco, premio Nobel de literatura en 1916 1871 Muere Antonio Castro Alves, poeta brasileño 1877 Nace Aleksey Remizov, narrador ruso 1878 Nace Eino Leino, literato finlandés 1893 Muere Guy de Maupassant, escritor francés 1904 Muere Abay Kunanbayuli, escritor kazajo 1913 Nace Gwyn Thomas, escritor galés 1914 Muere Delmira Agustini, poeta y activista feminista uruguaya 1914 Nace José García Nieto, poeta y narrador español 1930 Nace Françoise Mallet-Joris, escritora belga 1932 Muere Kenneth Grahame, escritor británico 1952 Nace Hilary Mantel, escritora inglesa 1962 Muere William Faulkner, literato estadounidense, premio Nobel de Literatura en 1949 1964 Muere Rafael Cansinos Assens, escritor español 1961 Muere Enrique Larreta, novelista argentino 1979 Muere Marino Moretti, poeta italiano 2009 Muere Vasili Aksiónov, novelista ruso

[fantasikurni]

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[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Françoise Mallet-Joris - Trois âges de la nuit - Instytut Wydawniczy PAX - 1971 (polish edition)

#occult #âges #witches #vintage #wydawniczy #pax #francois mallet-joris #trois âges de la nuit #trzy wieki ciemności #instytut wydawniczy pax #1971 #poland

[morebedsidebooks]

2022-2023 Women in Translation Roundup: Francophone

Reflecting the depths of French literature and the Francophone world, I’ve (re)read even more such women writers in the last year.

  A Fine of Two Hundred Francs by Elsa Triolet

A collection of different stories, illegally published during the last years of WWII, concerning daily life and the French Resistance during WWII.

The Belly of the Atlantic by Fatou Diome

A novel about siblings separated by distance and the dreams vs. realities of emigration.

The Blue Line by Ingrid Betancourt

A first novel which takes on fascism and Argentina’s Dirty War.

Bye Bye Babylon by Lamia Ziadé

A graphic novel memoir one of the most visceral I’ve read on the Lebanese Civil War.

The Collection by Nina Leger

An award-winning paean to pleasure and the penis.

I Die by this Country by Fawzia Zouari

A novel springing from a real headline in 1998 where two emaciated Algerian sisters were found by French authorities in a Paris apartment, one dead.

Disoriental by Négar Djavadi

A sprawling family drama From Persia, becoming Iran, the fall of the Shah, to the West in France.

Fairer-than-a Fairy by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force

Plus Belle que Fée, translated in English as Fairer-than-a-Fairy or simply Fairer. A tale with beautiful people particularly a princess so known, and as so boldly named as to incur the anger of a Faerie Queen.

Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas

This reflective historical novel, also adapted to film, views troubled days of the Court at Versailles in July 1789 through a devoted servant to Marie-Antoinette, as the revolution will eventually come to knock at the gates.

The Illusionist by Françoise Mallet-Joris

A debut novel written from the perspective an extremely lonely and emotionally neglected teenager falling into a toxic relationship with her father’s Russian mistress

The Notebook Trilogy by Ágota Kristóf

A psychological tale beginning in the childhood of two twin brothers over the course of many years through war, regimes, and the evils around them.

Papillons by Clémentine de Blanzat

The writer’s first bilingual poetry collection capturing “the translation of our emotions, our dreams, our pains, and our desires.”

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

A candid and immensely successful graphic memoir detailing coming-of-age amid revolution, war, and migration. Also a title that has repeatedly been a challenged and banned book.

Striving for Life by Evelin Mankou

A novella treatise on superstition which results in discrimination and violence.

The Tale of the Rose by Consuelo Saint-Exupéry

A writer in her own right, this is her memoir of an intense marriage to Antoine Saint-Exupéry of The Little Prince fame.

#french literature #littérature française #women in translation month #wit month #reading roundup

[dimasitao]

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[nrelaaprina]

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[falasinawidia]

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