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

Biography

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

He was involved in the publication of Tel Quel. and he became friends with Roland Barthes and Philippe Sollers. He was Severo Sarduy's partner until the latter's death. He also taught philosophy to Elie Wiesel in the 1940s.

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

References

1. L'éditeur François Wahl est mort Archived 2014-10-07 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
2. ^ 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. Le Monde, "François Wahl (1925-2014), éditeur et philosophe". Published 15 September 2014 at 12:41 - updated 16 September 2014 22:49 (French)
7. ^ Jonathan Culler, Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp.110-112

External links

• François Wahl collection on Severo Sarduy at Princeton University Library Special Collections

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