Michèle Causse, French leader of radical lesbianism, has taken her own life in a clinical association "Dignitas"'s birthday
of the Corriere della Sera
Cecilia Zecca
PARIS - "I'm not gay, are not feminist, I am a radical lesbian, "it is. And it was all over radical Michèle Causse. At the point of choosing how, where and when to die. Thanks to the Swiss assisted suicide 'Dignitas' to which increasingly rely on foreigners. The organization's clinic in Zurich. On July 29, 2010, or the day of his 74th birthday.
The announcement was made and confirmed by Dignitas in Paris from French Coordination lesbians without explanation on the reasons for the choice of Michael, his ashes, he just stated it, will be scattered in the cemetery of Montvalent, not far from the home village South of France where the Causse had returned after a lifetime in many countries to combat for the cause of lesbian, writing, translating.
degree in translation at the Sorbonne, he taught for a period in Tunisia, then lived for ten years in Rome, studying among other Chinese and in-depth knowledge of the Italian cinema and literature. It was then in Martinique, in New York and Florida, then in Canada. Improving foreign language, teaching at many universities, working as a consultant to governments and UNESCO. While becoming a popular translator of classical authors now. Our Cesare Pavese and Primo Levi, as well as Ignazio Silone, Natalia Ginzburg, Dacia Maraini. He translated into French screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni and Luchino Visconti, as well as some minor texts, or at least niche of activists like her. And among other big foreign names: Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Willa Cather, Mary Daly, Alice Munro.
On his website, where we read yesterday that Michael "was born in 1936 and chose to de-born in 2010 (a step similar to that carried out two years ago by another writer, the Belgian Hugo Claus), You can follow the path of this complex and rich woman intelligent and curious about everything and author of essays, novels, poems. But that, first, put his militancy, and absolutely to the last radical. In his numerous books, articles and papers on lesbianism had in fact attacked not only heterosexuality («... Until a woman wants to pleasure a man is inauthentic, not integrity, incorruptibility that comes from not wanting to please "), but also harshly criticized feminism, the gay movement and even that of the first lesbian 80 years, he said all stained residue "patriarchal". And his radicalism had caused her many enemies, even in the gay world. French gay and lesbian sites, last night, you could read condolences and regret but also took away from positions held by many only because of an unnecessary internal divisions.
"But what I have done infinitely less important than what I did, and the same goes for what I do not happened," left written Michèle Causse, almost anticipating the reactions to his decision to leave. "Why talk about me? What I read instead. To deny my epitaph: Neither read nor approved.
Cecilia Zecca
PARIS - "I'm not gay, are not feminist, I am a radical lesbian, "it is. And it was all over radical Michèle Causse. At the point of choosing how, where and when to die. Thanks to the Swiss assisted suicide 'Dignitas' to which increasingly rely on foreigners. The organization's clinic in Zurich. On July 29, 2010, or the day of his 74th birthday.
The announcement was made and confirmed by Dignitas in Paris from French Coordination lesbians without explanation on the reasons for the choice of Michael, his ashes, he just stated it, will be scattered in the cemetery of Montvalent, not far from the home village South of France where the Causse had returned after a lifetime in many countries to combat for the cause of lesbian, writing, translating.
degree in translation at the Sorbonne, he taught for a period in Tunisia, then lived for ten years in Rome, studying among other Chinese and in-depth knowledge of the Italian cinema and literature. It was then in Martinique, in New York and Florida, then in Canada. Improving foreign language, teaching at many universities, working as a consultant to governments and UNESCO. While becoming a popular translator of classical authors now. Our Cesare Pavese and Primo Levi, as well as Ignazio Silone, Natalia Ginzburg, Dacia Maraini. He translated into French screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni and Luchino Visconti, as well as some minor texts, or at least niche of activists like her. And among other big foreign names: Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Willa Cather, Mary Daly, Alice Munro.
On his website, where we read yesterday that Michael "was born in 1936 and chose to de-born in 2010 (a step similar to that carried out two years ago by another writer, the Belgian Hugo Claus), You can follow the path of this complex and rich woman intelligent and curious about everything and author of essays, novels, poems. But that, first, put his militancy, and absolutely to the last radical. In his numerous books, articles and papers on lesbianism had in fact attacked not only heterosexuality («... Until a woman wants to pleasure a man is inauthentic, not integrity, incorruptibility that comes from not wanting to please "), but also harshly criticized feminism, the gay movement and even that of the first lesbian 80 years, he said all stained residue "patriarchal". And his radicalism had caused her many enemies, even in the gay world. French gay and lesbian sites, last night, you could read condolences and regret but also took away from positions held by many only because of an unnecessary internal divisions.
"But what I have done infinitely less important than what I did, and the same goes for what I do not happened," left written Michèle Causse, almost anticipating the reactions to his decision to leave. "Why talk about me? What I read instead. To deny my epitaph: Neither read nor approved.
