“Women’s Porn” and “Hymn to the phallus” was her novel “Salt on Our Skin” decried initially , Benoîte Groult had with its story of a wild sex affair between a Parisian intellectual and a fishing delights millions of readers, but also many stunned.
With 68 years she had the novel of today’s most classics of erotic literature is one, written as a first-person narrator. Now the writer and feminist died at the age of 96 years.
a compulsive urge for life, so she called her philosophy once. They have filed no vow of monogamy in her life, she said in an interview. Even in old age, the native Parisian did not mince his words. Their fight was the rights and of women’s freedom.
Only three years ago came out of it “Ainsi soit Olympe de Gouges,” a book about the revolutionary and feminist Olympe de Gouges, who, prior to more 200 years for the rights and freedom of women began. Their battle cost the pioneer of feminism life: On the scaffold the French writer in 1793 was executed – abused as prostitutes and Aufwieglerin
Groult was not a frequent writer.. In her 50-year career, the studied literary scholar has written or co-authored about 20 books. Until the publication of “Salt on Our Skin” 1988 was mainly known in France. People would want to know “how to live for 50 years with a happy marriage affair, without the relationship to compromise,” she explained to the success of her novel. The filmed by Andrew Birkin in 1992 book was sold more than three million times. In Germany it was for months on the bestseller list.
About the courage to spread as narrator their sex affair before all the world, she was far from surprised as in their published in 2009 in German biography “My liberation” wrote. In this they also revealed that there had been at the fishermen to died in 2004 Kurt Heilbronn. The American pilot she had met in 1945 after the liberation of France. More than 50 years took the affair between the two – despite several husbands and children.
Groult comes from the Parisian upper classes. Already her first 1972 published novel “La part des choses” – the book came in Germany in 1999 under the title “The things as they are” out – focuses on the relationship between man and woman. Only “Salt on Our Skin” was but become their feminist strong kick, she wrote in her autobiography.
your battle they remained faithful to the end. “With aging, the women disappear. Nobody looks more on the street. They are transparent, losing sight of the men who are afraid of aging of women and more about old women who dress, “she said in 2012 the French women’s magazine” Elle “. Benoîte Groult lest took off. “I look at the men still looking,” she said a few years ago.
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