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.Bill Marshall, ''France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Transatlantic Relations)'', ABC-CLIO Ltd, 2005, p.104

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and

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, among others. He was involved in the publication of ''

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''. and he became friends with

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and

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. He was

Severo Sarduy Severo Sarduy (February 25, 1937 – June 8, 1993) was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art. Some of his works deal explicitly with male homosexuality and transvestism. Biography Born in a working-class family ...

's partner until the latter's death. He also taught philosophy to

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in the 1940s.''Le Monde'', "François Wahl (1925-2014), éditeur et philosophe". Published 15 September 2014 at 12:41 - updated 16 September 2014 22:49
(French) In 1987, Wahl, acting as

'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.

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, ''Barthes: A Very Short Introduction'', Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp.110-112 Wahl met with controversy, compounded by the fact that he refused to publish more of Barthes's seminars.

References

External links

François Wahl collection on Severo Sarduy
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Princeton University Library Special Collections
1925 births 2014 deaths French philosophers French gay writers Structuralists Analysands of Jacques Lacan {{France-philosopher-stub