But why was Éden, Éden, Éden so threatening in 1970? And how should we react to the book today? 5 4 Despite this support, the ministry did not lift its ban.Ĭensored, Éden, Éden, Éden was forbidden literature Guyotat was effectively silenced. Guyotat defended his book in a series of interviews published in Tel Quel, La Nouvelle Critique, and Promesse, and other writers wrote on his behalf, most notably Foucault and Sollers. The list of additional signatures added to a reprinting of the petition ran to twenty-seven pages of names. On its initial publication the petition carried the signatures of Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Claude Simon, Jean Cayrol, Jacques Derrida, Marguerite Duras, Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Philippe Sollers, and Kateb Yacine, among many others. The French intelligentsia responded with a petition written by Jérôme Lindon, the editor of Les éditions de minuit, published in Le Monde. 1 Thirteen years previously, the works of the Marquis de Sade had been cleared for sale by judicial decree, yet Éden, Éden, Éden-a book published by the most prestigious publishing house in France, Éditions Gallimard, and prefaced by Michel Leiris, Philippe Sollers, and Michel Foucault, three writers whose moral authority and renown transcended generations and national boundaries-was banned. The ministry justified its action based on a 1949 law for the protection of youth even though it had not fulfilled the evaluative stipulations of that law prior to enacting it. On 22 October 1970 the French Ministry of the Interior banned Pierre Guyotat's recently published novel Éden, Éden, Éden from sale to minors, from display, and from advertisement: a triple interdiction.
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