François Wahl

François Wahl (born 13 May 1925 - 15 September 2014) was a French editor and structuralist.

Biography

François Wahl was editor at the Éditions du Seuil, a publishing company in Paris. He was the editor of Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, among others.

He was involved in the publication of Tel Quel. and he became friends with Roland Barthes and Philippe Sollers. He was Severo Sarduy's partner until the latter's death. He also taught French to Elie Wiesel in 1947.

In 1987, Wahl, acting as Roland Barthes's literary executor, published his essays Incidents, which tells of his homosexual bouts with Moroccan young men, and Soirées de Paris, which chronicles his difficulty to find a male lover in Paris. Wahl met with controversy, compounded by the fact that he refused to publish more of Barthes's seminars.