A Tennessee Williams Novel Returns to French Shelves
Robert Laffont has reissued "Une femme nommée Moïse," prompting France Culture to revisit the American playwright's lesser-known work as a novelist.
Robert Laffont has just published a new edition of "Une femme nommée Moïse," a novel by Tennessee Williams, according to France Culture, which devoted a segment of its programme Les Midis de culture to the occasion on October 6.
The broadcast used the republication as a chance to look beyond Williams's famous plays — A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — toward his fiction, which France Culture describes as little known to French readers. The programme argued that Williams's body of work, taken as a whole, remains worth returning to at any moment, calling it "magistrale et monumentale."
No further detail on the novel's plot, translator or original publication date was given in the source material. For readers who keep Williams on their shelves mainly through his theatre, the reissue offers an occasion to fill in a less-travelled corner of his catalogue.
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