Silences, or a Woman's Life

Marie Chaix, née à Lyon en 1942, est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont Les Lauriers du Lac de Constance (Le Seuil, Prix des Maisons de la Presse 1974), Juliette chemin des Cerisiers (Le Seuil, Prix des Lectrices de Elle 1985) et Le Fils de Marthe (Calmann-Lévy 1990).

Harry Mathews was born in New York City in 1930 and spent his adult life in the United States and in France, where he co-founded the influential journal Locus Solus with John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler in 1961. He was the first American member of the literary consortium Oulipo, alongside Raymond Queneau, Italo Calvino, and Georges Perec. His many writings, spanning novels, short fiction, poems, essays, and translations from the French, include The Conversions, Tlooth, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, Cigarettes, The Journalist, My Life in CIA, and The Solitary Twin. Mathews was honored by the French government as an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters and earned awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Arts. He died in Key West, Florida, in 2017.