The French writer and feminist Benoîte Groult died. The author, who became world famous with the novel salt on our skin , died in the early hours of Tuesday in the southern French town of Hyères. “She died in her sleep, just as they wanted without suffering”, informed her daughter Blandine de Caunes. Benoîte Groult of 96 years old.
She was born in 1920 in Paris. Her family – her father was an interior designer, her mother a fashion designer – wrong with numerous artists and writers, including Picasso was one of her friends. First Benoîte Groult worked as a teacher and later as a journalist. Later she founded the Q Magazine , a political magazine for women.
At the age of 40, she began to write books. These dealt with the situation of women. First, an intimate diary of the war period and the low freedom of women ( The duet Diary ) was created. Groults first 1972 published novel La part des choses – in Germany under the title The things as they are released – focuses on the relationship between man and woman and brought her to the price the Academy of Brittany a. Her bestsellers counted the three years later published work Oedipus’s sister – Wrath to power of men over women .
The women stayed her life theme: “It is fascinating to see what development they have finally gone through in this century,” said Groult once the TIME . But only the erotic bestseller salt on our skin was her feminist strong kick, she wrote in her autobiography.
The book describes the affair a Parisian intellectuals with a Breton fisherman, from which it actually separates everything except the bed. Groult, which saw itself as a late daughter of Simone de Beauvoir wanted it to break a taboo and describe a happy love, witnessed by a woman who wants everything, without committing the slightest feeling, a sin.
in Germany alone, the book sold more than three million times. At first it was – dismissed as “For Women”, now it is considered a classic of erotic literature – especially from male critics. In 1992 it was made into a film by Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger producer was.
Groult, who was married three times and had three daughters, was one of the most prominent feminists in France. Under President François Mitterrand, she headed a commission that looked female for male job titles name. They also argued for the right to abortion and birth control pills, and later for euthanasia. She described herself as a “feminist Reluctant” because they “had so much trouble to be feminine”. She remained feminist because although women made great progress in the personal area, but gained little political influence and seldom engaged in public functions were.
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