Viviane Forrester

Viviane Forrester ( born September 29, 1925 in Paris as Viviane Dreyfus, † April 30, 2013 ibid ) was a French writer, essayist and literary critic.

Life and work

Forrester worked in Paris as a literary critic for Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur and La Fortnight littéraire. As an art and literary critic she has emerged mainly with work on Vincent van Gogh and Virginia Woolf.

Internationally known the author was her first political book The terror of the economy (L' horreur économique ) ( 1996), which quickly became a bestseller and been translated into 27 languages. In it she described abuses in the suburbs of big cities and argues for a shift away from neoliberalism. She asked basic questions about the meaning of terms which, although used permanently, in their view, but are generally not questioned, for example, about the importance of the concept of competitiveness. She complained that businesses receive state benefits to job creation without the need for compensatory measures in the form of job guarantees must be provided.

Viviane Forrester was a member of attac.

Writings

• La violence du calme, 1980
• Van Gogh or burial in wheat, French 1983, German 2003 Hamburg
• Mains, 1988
• The terror of the economy, French Paris 1996, Vienna 1997 dt
• The dictatorship of profit, Paris 2000 French, German Munich, Vienna 2001