Christiane Rochefort (17 July 1917 – 24 April 1998) was a French

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writer. She was born into a left-wing working class Parisian family; her father joined the

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during the

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. Rochefort worked as a journalist and spent fifteen years as a press attaché to the

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before publishing her first novel, ''

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'' ('' The Warrior's Rest''), in 1958. Like several of her later novels, ''Le Repos du guerrier'' was a bestseller; in 1962 it was adapted into a popular film directed by

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and starring

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. Her novels are divided between

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satires set in present-day France and

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n fantasies. She won the

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in 1988. Rochefort's novels also have strong sexual elements.

Novels

*''Cendres et or" (1956) *''Le repos du guerrier'' (1958) – ''Warrior's Rest'' (translated by Lowell Bair, 1959) *''Les petits enfants du siècle'' (1961) – ''Children of Heaven'' (translated by Linda Asher, 1962)/''Josyane and the Welfare'' (translated by

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, 1963) *''Les stances à Sophie'' (1963) - ''Cat's Don't Care for Money'' (translated by Helen Eustis, 1965) *''Une rose pour

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'' (1966) (dedicated to Mister

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) *''Printemps au parking'' (1969) *''Archaos, ou le Jardin Etincelant'' (1972) *''Encore heureux qu'on va vers l'été'' (1975) *''Quand tu vas chez les femmes'' (1982) *''La porte du fond'' (1988)

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(dedicated to

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) *''Conversations sans paroles'' (1997)

References

Bibliography

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, "Comment travaillent les écrivains", Paris 1978 (interview with Ch. Rochefort, in French)

External links

* Christiane Rochefort
''Les enfants d'abord''

* Margaret-Anne Hutton
''Countering The Culture: The Novels of Christiane Rochefort''
* Isabelle Constant
''Les mots étincelants de Christiane Rochefort: langages d'utopie''
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Novels

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