Christiane Rochefort

Christiane Rochefort (1979)

Christiane Rochefort (born July 17, 1917 in Paris , † April 24, 1998 in Le Pradet in the Var department ) was a French writer and feminist . She published some of her writings under the pseudonym Dominique Féjos .

Life and writing

Christiane Rochefort was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris , a working-class district. After graduating from baccalaureate , she studied changing subjects; Medicine, psychiatry, literature and ethnology. From 1945 she initially worked as a journalist, but also stayed afloat as a shepherdess or office worker. She also worked as a film actress and until 1968 as head of the press office of the Cannes Film Festival . At times she was also an employee of the Cinémathèque française in Paris.

In 1958 she achieved a scandalous success with the sexually charged novel Le Repos du guerrier , which reached a circulation of 75,000 copies within six months and was filmed in 1962 with Brigitte Bardot . For the novel she was awarded the Prix de la Nouvelle Vague . Out of her numerous novels , essays and translations, however , the novel Les petits enfants du siècle (English children of our time , filmed in 1974 by Michel Favart ), published by Grasset in 1961, traces and traces the childhood and adolescence of a girl in post-war Paris also gained a certain prominence in Germany thanks to its frequent use as school reading in French lessons.

In her books, Rochefort has often responded to issues of the time in a very aggressive way in a socially critical manner. Spring for Beginners , a coming of age and coming out story, written before May 1968 , is about a young gay dropout and was welcomed as literary support by the emerging German gay movement. Children was a pamphlet attack against all forms of education and was used like a Bible by militant representatives of anti-authoritarian education. In The Door Behind Rochefort discussed sexual violence in the family. All in all, her entire work pervades the confrontation with the difficult life within the nuclear family. Her sympathy was always with the anarchic and lustful rebels.

In 1971, along with Simone de Beauvoir and Gisèle Halimi, she was one of the founders of the Choisir la cause des femmes association .

Works (selection)

Published in German:

The pillow of rest. Übers. Ernst Sander . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1959 ISBN 3-518-36879-6
Children of our time . Translated from Walter Maria Guggenheimer . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1962 ISBN 3-518-36987-3
My husband is always right. Translated from Walter Maria Guggenheimer. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1965 ISBN 3-518-36928-8
A rose for Morrison. Novel. Translated by Eugen Helmlé . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1967 ISBN 3-518-37075-8
Spring for beginners. Translated by Eugen Helmlé. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1970 ISBN 3-7632-3052-1
Fortunately, summer is approaching. Translated by Eugen Helmlé. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1977 ISBN 3-518-04054-5
Children. Translated by Anne-Marie Balogun. Trikont, Munich 1977 ISBN 3-88167-016-5
The world is like two horses. Translated by Eugen Helmlé. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1986 ISBN 3-518-37744-2
The door over there. Translated by Eugen Helmlé. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1990 ISBN 3-518-40237-4

Film adaptations

Literary template

1958: Too many crooks (Too many crooks)
1962: The pillow of rest (Le repos du guerrier)

script

1960: The Truth (La vérité)

literature

Caroline Eliacheff, Nathalie Heinich: Mothers and Daughters. A triangular relationship. About literature and film motifs. Translated by Horst Brühmann. Walter-Patmos, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3530421758 , pp. 188ff. (Chapter The First Type Incest on The Back Door )
François Nourissier : Christiane Rochefort, in Verena von der Heyden-Rynsch Ed .: Vive la littérature! Contemporary French literature. Hanser, Munich 1989, p. 165

Web links

Literature by and about Christiane Rochefort in the catalog of the German National Library
Christiane Rochefort in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Helga Zoch, in: Christiane Rochefort: Les Petits Enfants du siècle . In: Helga Zoch (ed.): Universal library for foreign language texts . No. 9265 . Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-009265-5 , p. 157-167 (afterword) .

personal data
SURNAME	Rochefort, Christiane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Féjos, Dominique (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French writer and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	April 24, 1998
Place of death	Le Pradet

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Helga Zoch, in: Christiane Rochefort: Les Petits Enfants du siècle . In: Helga Zoch (ed.): Universal library for foreign language texts . No. 9265 . Reclam-Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-009265-5 , p. 157-167 (afterword) .