Viviane Forrester is a writer, essayist, novelist and literary critic. She works for Le Monde

Le Monde

Le Monde is a French daily evening newspaper owned by La Vie-Le Monde Group and edited in Paris. It is one of two French newspapers of record, and has generally been well respected since its first edition under founder Hubert Beuve-Méry on 19 December 1944...

, Le Nouvel Observateur

Le Nouvel Observateur

Le Nouvel Observateur is a weekly French newsmagazine. Based in Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation ....

 and Quinzaine littéraire and is a member of the jury of the Prix Femina

Prix Femina

The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse . The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury, although the authors of the winning works do not have to be women...

. She became famous internationally with her books on political affairs. In L'Horreur économique and Une étrange dictature she criticizes the globalisation

Globalization

Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...

 of society.

Awards

She won the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie in 2009 for her biography of Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....

.. She also won the Prix Femina de l'essai in 1983 for her biography of Van
Gogh an the Prix Médicis de l'essai in 1996 for "LHorreur économique".
Since 1992, she is a member of the Jury of the Prix Femina.

Works

• "The NS Essay - Work: the great illusion", The New Statesman, 24 May 1999

• Ainsi des exilés, Denoël, 1970

°Le Grand festin. Denoël.1971

• Le corps entier de Marigda Denoël 1976
• Vestiges Seuil. 1978
• La Violence du calme, Seuil, 1980
• Van Gogh ou l'enterrement dans les blés, Seuil, 1983, ISBN 978-2-02-006444-6
• Le Jeu des poignards. Gallimard. 1985
• L'Oeil de la nuit Grasset, 1986
• Mains, Séguier, 1988. 1OOI nuits 1998
• Ce Soir, après la guerre. Lattès 1992. Fayard 1997
• L'Horreur économique, Fayard : Centre d'Exportation du Livre Francais, 1996, ISBN 978-2-253-14601-8
  • The Economic Horror, Wiley-Blackwell, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7456-1994-1
• Une étrange dictature, Fayard,Paris 2000
• Le Crime occidental. Fayard 2004
• Mes Passions de toujours, Fayard 2006
• Virginia Woolf, Albin Michel. 2009
• Rue de Rivoli, Gallimard 2011
• Dans la fureur glaciale, Gallimard 2011

Reviews

This is the central point of Viviane Forrester's book: the consequences of the market economy have 'such inattention that the inattention itself is not even noticed'. In other words, a blind eye is being turned to the inequalities created by the capitalist system. She adds that, 'achieving general indifference is more a victory for the system than gaining partial support'. Her contention being that what is more important to the representatives of capital is ensuring that people do not question or care about what is going on, rather than trying to win positive endorsement for the way the system is run from the majority of the population.

External links

• The Economic Horror
• "Viviane Forrester", French Wikipedia