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Philippe Sollers | |
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Born | Philippe Joyaux 28 November 1936 Talence, France |
Died | 5 May 2023 Paris, France | (aged 86)
Education | Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève ESSEC Business School |
Occupation(s) | Writer novelist |
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French and Francophone literature |
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Philippe Sollers (French: [sɔˈlɛʁs]; born Philippe Joyaux; 28 November 1936 – 5 May 2023) was a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the avant garde literary journal Tel Quel (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was published by Le Seuil and ran until 1982. Sollers then created the journal L'Infini, published first by Denoel, then by Gallimard with Sollers remaining as sole editor.
Sollers was at the heart of the period of intellectual fervour in the Paris of the 1960s and 1970s. He contributed to the publication of critics and thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, and Roland Barthes. Some of them were later described in his novel Femmes (1983), alongside other figures of French intellectualism active before and after May 1968.
His writings and approach to language were examined and praised by French critic Roland Barthes in his book Writer Sollers.[1]