From the 1950’s, with Le Rempart des béguines, La Chambre rouge, Cordélia, Les Mensonges and L’Empire céleste, down into the 1990’s, with Adriana Sposa, Divine, Les Larmes, La Maison dont le chien est fou and Sept démons dans la ville, the work of Françoise Mallet-Joris has exercised a very special fascination over a very large readership. The content of her work, ever developing yet faithful to residual, either lived or observed, studied experience, is wide-ranging and unflinching – family relationships, the individual psyche, belief systems that move...
From the 1950’s, with Le Rempart des béguines, La Chambre rouge, Cordélia, Les Mensonges and L’Empire céleste, down into the 1990...