Andrée Ferretti speaks with clarity. Assertive words. In public places, in front of assemblies. People want to hear it. Thirst for its sharp, sculpted statements. Andrée has breath. She is desired for that: her sentences formulated in affirmative language. She is a speaker, a great one.
We have seen so many times these desires that one can have for speech: the thought and the speech of a militant woman, a free thinker, of the same impetus, an original writer who passed away peacefully on September 29, at the end of his age.
Declarations of friendship, there have been some between us.
Friendship comes from verbal usage. The exchanges tend towards intelligence. Before or after, it doesn’t matter, tenderness said once again.
Andrée has written fiction, novels. Most of his characters are philosophers, learned women. She believes in knowledge, in its necessity just as much as in love, the body and passion.
She proclaims that it is easier to be a feminist than to be a separatist. Irreverence.
Female characters invented by her, fictions of violence. Violated figures, who in turn violate, largely situated in the midst of brutality and terrors. In summary, images of free women.
Freedom is a wrenching.
Reader, she claims joy. The writers she follows from book to book are mostly men tracing the happiness of living. As a free thinker, she goes on the side of victory.
His work is exceptional for the quality of expression, thought and commitment.
Andrée Ferretti constantly reminds us that she is self-taught. During the 1970s, she studied philosophy at the University of Montreal and recognized herself in the work of Spinoza, the philosopher of joy.
His writing is resolutely classic. Her first novel, Revival in Pagania (1987), opens on the philosophical thought of Hypatia of Alexandria. The clarity of the language goes hand in hand with what it tells, illustrates, debates: an invitation to think. His novel Bénédicte under investigation (2008), on Spinoza in a female identity, offers a luminous character.
Andrée Ferretti is also an accomplished short story writer. October of light recounts his incarceration during the events of October 1970. The story therefore takes up the historical events and the narration rises to this dimension. She ran away from school very early, the school being a prison. Prison was his university.
In an interview with Jean Royer, Andrée Ferretti said she favored freedom by retracing the destinies of women. Meditations on freedom run through his fictions. Coming late to literary writing, she writes a contrasting world in a limpid language.
Passionaria of Independence, she wrote several essays. At 80, she published My desire for revolution, which tells the story of his ideas and his journey. How to say that the only title of this essay is iconoclastic.
Andrée Ferretti was a true friend.