Paris (AFP)
The autobiography of American director Woody Allen, "Let it be said in passing", will finally appear in French on June 3, we learned on Monday from Stock editions.
The book, translated into French by Marc Amfreville and Antoine Cazé, was originally scheduled for April 29, then was postponed to May 13 due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The director's book "Mysterious Murder in Manhattan" was released in the United States on March 23 (at Arcade Publishing) after many twists and turns.
Its traditional publisher, Grand Central Publishing (a subsidiary of the Hachette group) refused to publish it after protests from some of its employees and from Ronan Farrow, the filmmaker's son.
At issue, the charges laid by the director's adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, who claims to have been sexually abused by Woody Allen in 1992, when she was 7 years old. The 84-year-old filmmaker has always denied these accusations.
Woody Allen has not been the subject of an indictment or a trial, but his reputation has been seriously tarnished in the United States as a result of this matter. His latest film, "A rainy day in New York" was released in France but not in the United States.
"By the way" is the comprehensive account of Woody Allen's life, both personal and professional, and looks back at his film, television, club scene as well as his work as a writer, says its publisher.
"There is nothing sulphurous in the book," recently told the newspaper Le Monde Manuel Carcassonne, boss of Stock editions, recalling that justice has "completely innocent twice" the filmmaker. "There is no legal or moral problem in publishing and supporting it," he said.
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