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

Biography

François Wahl was editor at the

Éditions du Seuil Éditions du Seuil (), also known as ''Le Seuil'', is a French publishing house established in 1935 by Catholic intellectual Jean Plaquevent (1901–1965), and currently owned by La Martinière Groupe. It owes its name to this goal "The ''seuil' ...

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

/ref> He was the editor of Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, among others. He was involved in the publication of ''

Tel Quel ''Tel Quel'' (translated into English as, variously: "as is," "as such," or "unchanged") was a French avant-garde literary magazine published between 1960 and 1982. History and profile ''Tel Quel'' was founded in 1960 in Paris by Philippe Soll ...

''. and he became friends with

Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popula ...

and

Philippe Sollers Philippe Sollers (; born Philippe Joyaux; 28 November 1936) is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the ''avant garde'' literary journal '' Tel Quel'' (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was published by Le S ...

. He was

Severo Sarduy Severo Sarduy (February 25, 1937 – June 8, 1993) was a Cubans, 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 ...

's partner until the latter's death. He also taught philosophy to Elie Wiesel 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. Jonathan Culler, ''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