François Wahl (; 13 May 1925 – 15 September 2014) was a French editor and structuralist.L'éditeur François Wahl est mort (in French)
Biography François Wahl was an editor at the Éditions du Seuil, a publishing company in Paris.Bill Marshall, France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (Transatlantic Relations), ABC-CLIO Ltd, 2005, p.1045 He was the editor of Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, among others.Francois Dosse and Deborah N. Glassman, History of Structuralism: The Sign Sets, 1967-Present v. 2, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, p. 78
He was involved in the publication of Tel Quel.George Haggerty (ed.), Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures: 2, Routledge, 1999, p. 1192. and he became friends with Roland Barthes and Philippe Sollers.Emilio Bejel, Gay Cuban Nation, Chicago University Press, 2001, p. 32 He was Severo Sarduy's partner until the latter's death. He also taught philosophy to Elie Wiesel in the 1940s.Le Monde, "François Wahl (1925-2014), éditeur et philosophe". Published 15 September 2014 at 12:41 - updated 16 September 2014 22:49 (French)
In 1987, Wahl, acting as Roland Barthes's literary executor, published his essays Incidents, which tells of his homosexual encounters with Moroccan young men, and Soirées de Paris, which chronicles his difficulty in finding a male lover in Paris.Jonathan Culler, Barthes: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp.110-112 Wahl met with controversy, compounded by the fact that he refused to publish more of Barthes's seminars.
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External links
François Wahl collection on Severo Sarduy at Princeton University Library Special Collections