Louis Calaferte

Louis Calaferte (1928-1994) was one of the most prolific and controversial French writers of the twentieth century. A Christian anarchist, fiercely independent and aloof, he nevertheless won the Grand Prix National des Lettres. His ninety published titles include forty collections of poetry, a half-dozen volumes of plays, a half-dozen books of essays, a series of uninhibited novels, such as Requiem des innocents (1952), Septentrion (1963) and La Mecanique des femmes (1992), a series of recorded...See more

Louis Calaferte (1928-1994) was one of the most prolific and controversial French writers of the twentieth century. A Christian anarchist, fiercely independent and aloof, he nevertheless won the Grand Prix National des Lettres. His ninety published titles include forty collections of poetry, a half-dozen volumes of plays, a half-dozen books of essays, a series of uninhibited novels, such as Requiem des innocents (1952), Septentrion (1963) and La Mecanique des femmes (1992), a series of recorded interviews and sixteen books of carnets or notebooks. His massive work breathes with unrestrained freedom, a disdain for social convention, a love of women, a childlike wonder, an enthusiasm for art and literature, a strange and stimulating stream of consciousness and a belief in life as it is lived. See less