In 2016, it had written in 2016, she had written a poignant narrative of the attack against “Charlie Hebdo” where her husband Georges had died.
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Born in Algiers under the name of Bacheère, May 3, 1943, Maryse Wolinski came from a Catholic and Conservative family: “Rather current values that Le Monde,” she said willingly. She died in Paris, Thursday, December 9, follow suites of lung cancer.
feminist engaged with Gisèle Halimi, journalist (southwest, the newspaper of Sunday, her …), novelist, playwright, screenwriter – she has occupied a special place in the French literary and media field, being at both a Franc-Masonic intellectual – venerable mistress of the great female lodge of France (since 2004) -, an attractive, courageous woman without prejudice and a rare elegance; In short, a successful writer, able to frequent very diverse circles that never meet and sometimes hate.
In his books of a fluid writing – novels, biography, tests, portraits – she will have addressed, with the greatest seriousness and without the slightest complacency, all the subjects called “society”: beauty of the bodies, psychic health , Makeup arts, eating and dressing, ages of life, and, always, the little and the great history of couples: what happens between men and women, how to be happy by remaining Free, how to engage in emancipatory fighting? In 2014, it will devote a book to Edith Stein (the passion of Edith S., threshold), Jewish philosopher, a student of Edmund Husserl, who became Carmelite under the name of Sister Thérèse-Bénédicte of the Cross, murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 .
Muse
It was at the age of 20 years that she met Georges Wolinski, cartoonist, 14 years old her elder, already famous and who will be the man of a lifetime. A real revolution, according to her: Jew, atheist, leftist, companion of the French Communist Party, melancholy, haunted by the violent deaths, accustomed to the watered and seductive evenings of women, often qualified as “macho” by fanatical activists. Father of two daughters, he lost his wife in an accident from the road. He is free and madly in love. She will marry her in 1971 and give her a third girl. He will make her muse to be disturbed in most of her drawings: “This anguish in front of women and their mystery, I have never been able to get rid of it, even after meeting you.”
It was thanks to the publisher Françoise Verny, that she in turn knows success, in 1988, with the publication at Flammarion of an autobiographical novel, to the devil Vauvert, where she tells the disgrace of being Born woman in a family who favors men. It then chains the publications. In 2008, on the intervention of his friend Béourive Olivier, she enters the editions of the threshold. He will join her in 2010 by taking the direction of the house and by bringing Georges also.
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