Rivages brings out two unpublished works by Susan Taubes, dead for nearly sixty years
The French publisher has just released two previously unpublished texts by the American writer, who took her own life in 1969, reviving a broader question about how forgotten women writers get rediscovered.
Two previously unpublished works by Susan Taubes have just appeared at the French publishing house Rivages, according to France Culture, which devoted a segment of its programme "Les Midis de culture" to the writer on October 20. Taubes, an American writer, died by suicide in 1969 and had remained largely forgotten since.
France Culture used the publication to ask what it means to rediscover a woman writer and her work nearly sixty years after her death — a question that applies well beyond Taubes to a recurring pattern in literary history, where women authors fall out of print and out of memory for decades before being read again.
No further details on the two texts — their titles, translator, or original dates of composition — were given in the source material, nor was a publication date beyond the fact that they have "just appeared" at Rivages.
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