Printemps au parking

Printemps au parking (Spring in the Parking Lot) is a novel by Christiane Rochefort. It was published in 1969 by Bernard Grasset.^[1][2][3]

Printemps au parking

Author	Christiane Rochefort
Language	French
Genre	Drama
Publisher	Éditions Grasset
Publication date	1969
Publication place	France
ISBN	978-2253010142

The novel tells the story of Christophe, a young delinquent who enters a relationship with Chinese language student Thomas, by which means he develops as a person.^[2][1] The ending of the story was entirely re-written by Rochefort in the mid 1970s, who stated that she and other readers had hated the first version.^[1]

Rochefort accounted that, throughout the writing of the book, she had to overcome her unconscious prejudices against homosexual relations. She published the novel between a number of essays about sexuality, in which she wrote that "sexuality is one of the most rapid, most abrupt, most immediate ways of managing to raise consciousness" about politics and ethics.^[1]

As of Rochefort's death in 1998,^[update] the book has never been published in English.^[4]