WConsidered one of the best-known literary figures in France over the last half century, Philippe Sollers, born on November 28, 1936, in Talence, near Bordeaux, into a bourgeois family, was a precocious writer.
His first work, “Une curieuse solitude” was published when he was 22 years old and, three years later, in 1961, he won the Médicis prize with the work “Le parc”.
The author, who escaped going to war in Algeria, in 1962, claiming schizophrenia, lived with a large part of the French intelligentsia of the second half of the 20th century.
Eugène Ionesco, Louis Aragon, Elsa Triolet, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Luc Godar or Roland Barthes were Philippe Sollers’ companions who cultivated the reputation of an iconoclast. The texts of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) left a deep impression on him.
The writer, who in his youth started a communist militancy, from which he later distanced himself, published most of his works in the emblematic Gallimard publishing house.
Married to the psychoanalyst and writer of Bulgarian origin, Júlia Kristeva, with whom he has a son in common, he was active until his last days. His most recent work, published in Gallimard, was “Grail”, in 2022.
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