Philippe Sollers

Born in Talence in 1937, and educated in Bordeaux and Versailles, the French author and critic Philippe Sollers was a co-founder of the leftist critical journal Tel Quel (1960-1982), which became the primary Structuralist forum for the discussion of literary theory, linguistics, psychoanalysis, philosophy, anthropology, semiotics, and the avant-garde. His early novels were developments from the nouveau roman (new novel) employing plotless narratives and uninterrupted rhythmic prose. His later fiction is more traditional in structure. Among his works are the novels Le Parc (1961; The Park, 1986), Paradis (1981), Femmes (1983; Women, 1990), La Fête à Venise (1991; Watteau in Venice, 1994), and Une Vie Divine (2006), and the biographies Casanova L'Admirable (1998) and Mystérieux Mozart (2001). He is married to the writer Julia Kristeva.

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