Alice Rivaz collated several texts in Ce nom qui n’est pas le mien (1980) including a pioneering feminist article that had remained unnoticed since 1945. She created another collection, entitled Traces de vie (1983), from her own personal notes. Her work compiling Paul Golay’s collection Terre de justice (1951) was an opportunity for her to pay homage to her father and his political thinking. She was the invisible female linchpin for the Anthologie de la Poésie française (1943), which ironically only acknowledged C.F. Ramuz as the author.
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Ce nom qui n'est pas le mien
Ce Nom qui n’est pas le mien (This name that is not my own) is a collection of several autobiographical texts and various essays. It is divided into three parts: Femmes, Lire Écrire and Petite suite personnelle (Women, Reading Writing, and A Personal Sequel).
Traces de vie
Her notebooks go beyond the realm of the novelist to also provide a fascinating account of cultural and social life in 20th-century Geneva.
Anthologie de la poésie française
The Anthology of French Poetry was the brainchild of Henri-Louis Mermod and entrusted to Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz to steer. In 1942, the latter asked Alice Rivaz to prepare it.
Jean-Georges Lossier, Poésie et vie intérieure
In the preface to this opuscule on her friend, the poet Jean-Georges Lossier, Alice Rivaz presents her approach as “A modest attempt to identify the recurring topics and the spiritual orientation underlying his work from beginning to end.”
Terre de Justice. Choix d'articles et de discours
To pay tribute to their father and husband Paul Golay after his death in 1951, Alice Rivaz and Ida Golay selected various texts written and delivered in the course of more than forty years of his political and public life.