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Joan of Arc, or rather Jeanne Rommée, because in my country girls take their mother's name
Presentation by Théo Mantion
2025, 112 pages, ISBN: 9782707357113, $9.49
Monique Wittig wrote the screenplay for Jeanne d'Arc, or rather Jeanne Rommée, because in my country girls take their mother's name in the 1980s, based on the words spoken by Jeanne during her trial in Rouen (1431). The film depicts her clandestine training at a time when the country was in the hands of the English and the Burgundians. While Saint Catherine teaches her history, strategy, tactics, geography, physical training, horse riding, and the art of the lance and sword, Saint Margaret takes charge of teaching her manners and deportment, both at court and in war.
The screenplay was completed in 1988, and Sande Zeig, Delphine Seyrig, and Julie Christie were considered for the leading roles. Although the film was never made, Wittig never completely abandoned the project, expressing her desire to turn it into a book until the late 1990s. Unpublished, the screenplay has now been added to the list of her works.
Monique Wittig (1935-2003) published her first novel, L’Opoponax, in 1964 and received the Prix Médicis. In 1968, she took part in the events of May and then played a major role in the emergence of the women's liberation movement. She published Les Guérillères in 1969 and Le Corps lesbien in 1973. Brouillon pour un dictionnaire des amantes (Draft for a Dictionary of Lovers), written with Sande Zeig, was published in 1976, the year she left for the United States, where she taught at several universities. Her fourth novel, Virgile, non (Virgil, No), was published in 1985. This was followed by Paris-la-politique et autres histoires (Paris-Politics and Other Stories) in 1999 and La Pensée straight (Straight Thinking) in 2001. Le Chantier littéraire, a posthumous book, was published in 2010.
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The Opoponax
Opoponax is a playful and sensual record of the viscous passage of childhood. Opoponax is a novel about sitting in a tree hollow, sending secret notes in class, running across fields, and being bored during Catholic mass. Opoponax is a novel about learning to read and write. About letting the world become real in language.
Opoponax is a novel about Catherine Legrand, Veronique Legrand, Valerie Borge, Reine Dieu, Denise Baume, Anne-Marie Losserand, Jacqueline Marchand, Josiane Fourmont, Pascale Frommentin, Vincent Parme, Françoise Pommier, Gabriele Murteau, Nathalie Deleu, and all the others.
Opoponax was written by Monique Wittig (1935-2001), French author, feminist thinker, and activist. Opoponax is her debut novel, which was awarded the Prix Médicis in 1964.
"My Opoponax is perhaps—it is almost certainly—the first modern book written about childhood. My Opoponax is a death sentence for ninety percent of the books written about childhood. It is the end of a certain kind of literature, and I thank heaven for that. ... A masterpiece." - Marguerite Duras
The Square Monique Wittig was inaugurated on Tuesday June 3 as part of the La rue est aussi à nousconsultation.
The Opoponax
La pensée Wittig
Une introduction
Natacha Chetcuti
Sara Garbagnoli
Articles
Les Inrockuptibles, November 5 2025: Joan of Arc, a queer and feminist figure under the pen of Monique Wittig PDF | Link
New Books Network, Sep 26 2025: Interview in English La Pensée Wittig Une introduction Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz and Sara Garbagnoli Hosted by Gina Stamm Link
Libération, May 31 2025 : DRAGA takes to the front PDF | Link
Inauguration of Place Monique Wittig PDF
Monique Wittig Garden Link
Le Nouvel Obs, April 30 2024 : « Dans l’arène ennemie » collection of texts by Monique Wittig, the guérillère PDF
Le Nouvel Obs, April 23 2024 : « L’invitation au voyage » de Beaudelaire est-il un poème lesbien ? PDF
AOC, April 30 2024 : Mythoclasties – on Monique Wittig’s Dans l’arène ennemie PDF
Libération, April 24, 2024 : Monique Wittig, all fire and brimstone PDF
Le Monde, April 12 2024 : Monique Wittig: poetry, sex, love and politics PDF
La Matricule des anges, April 2024, No 252 : Monique Wittig, the deflagration PDF
Diacritik, April 4 2024 : Monique Wittig: doing violence to language, denaturalizing sex PDF
France culture, April 4 2024 : "The enemy arena": Wittig in fractals PDF | Link
Les Inrockuptibles no 29, April 4 2024 : A collection of the author's long-unavailable interviews PDF
Télérama, April 1 2024 : "In The Enemy Arena": Monique Wittig's revolutionary radicalism PDF
AOC, October 4 2023: Exit From Hell- on Paris-la-politique and other stories by Monique Wittig PDF | Article
Library of Congress: Research Guides European Feminism & French Women in History Article
France Culture, July 28 2023 : Being right with…: Monique Wittig: Rewriting history: the creation of wittigian poetry. PDF | Link
France Culture, July 27 2023 : Being right with…: Monique Wittig : Monique Wittig, politics: "the straight mind". PDF | Link
France Culture, July 26 2023 : Being right with…: Monique Wittig : How is commitment reflected in literature? PDF | Link
France Culture, July 25 2023 : Being right with…:: Monique Wittig "L'Opoponax", a stunning literary debut. PDF | Link
France Culture, July 24 2023: Being right with :Monique Wittig: Monique forgotten, Wittig rediscovered PDF | Link
Le Courrier, July 16 2023 : Monique Wittig and the beyond of sex PDF | Article
Times Literary Supplement, July 2023: Not Getting Sexuality Straight. PDF | Article
Le Temps, June 26 2023 : Monique Wittig at the University of Geneva, the return to favor of an exiled writer PDF | Article
Les Grenades, June 25 2023 :"Monique Wittig's writing in the color of Sappho": a captivating entry into the author's lair" PDF | Article
AOC, June 1, 2023: Creating another dimension of the human: Monique Wittig's lesbian revolution PDF | Article
Maze, May 27 2023 : "Monique Wittig's writing - or lesbian phrasing" PDF | Article
France-Amérique, March 8 2023: Monique Wittig, Literature as a Trojan Horse PDF | Article
L’Humanité, March 2 2023: Monique Wittig, back in favor … PDF | Article
Les Inrockutibles, January 17 2023 : “The Lesbian Body” by Monique Wittig finally comes out in paperback, 50 years after its publication! English PDF | Article
Madmoizelle, January 8 2023 :: Why today's feminists must rediscover the radical work of Monique Wittig English PDF | Article
TV5 Monde, January 7 2023: 20 Years Later, light on the writer and lesbian icon Monique Wittig English PDF
Telerama, January 3 2023: Monique Wittig: Twenty years after her death, a thought still very much alive English PDF | Article
Philosophie Magazine, January 3 2023: Monique Wittig in Four Quotes English PDF | Article
France Culture, January 3 2023: Why Read Monique Wittig, She Affirms Lesbians Are Not Woman? English PDF | Link
Les Éditions de Minuit, January 3 2023: Twenty years since the death of Monique Wittig (1935 - 2003) English PDF | Article
Film Quarterly, January 3 2023: Lacunary Films English PDF | Article
Liberation, January 2, 2023: The masculine no longer takes precedence English PDF | Article
Literary Hub, November 17 2022 : The Annotated Nightstand: What Anna Moschovakis is Reading Now and Next English PDF | Article
Le Monde, November 5 2022: Monique Wittig, feminist and lesbian icon English PDF | Article
Libération, October 27 2022 : Émilie Notéris In Search of Wittig PDF | Article
Libération, September 27 2022 : In Praise of Discontinuity: Jean-Luc Godard by Monique Wittig PDF | Article
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