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'' (th ...

, 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 Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, ; ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Sigmund Freud, Freud", Lacan gave The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, year ...

and Jacques Derrida, among others. He was involved in the publication of '' Tel Quel''. and he became friends with

Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 25 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 popu ...

and Philippe Sollers. He was Severo Sarduy'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 Jonathan Culler (born 1944) is an American literary critic. He was Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His published works are in the fields of structuralism, literary theory and literary criti ...

, ''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 20th-century French philosophers 21st-century French philosophers French gay writers Structuralists Analysands of Jacques Lacan {{France-philosopher-stub