Philippe Sollers , of his true name Philippe Jewels , is a writer French born with Bordeaux the November 28th 1936.

Biography

Its first novel, a curious loneliness , is published in 1958. It is one of the founders, in 1960, of the review Such as it is with the editions of the Threshold which defends of the authors then ignored or very discussed: Artaud, Battle, Joyce, Derrida, Foucault, Barthes, until in 1982. To continue its action, it creates the review Infinite the with the editions Denoël, then quickly at the editions Gallimard. He marries in 1967 Julia Kristeva, writer and psychoanalyst.

Philippe Sollers was inter alia a friend of Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser and Roland Barthes, which is described in the novel Femmes (1983), as well as other great figures of the French intellectual movement. Admiror of the China, it foresaw, beyond his engagement Maoist following the revolt of May 1968, the increasing cultural influence of the Empire of the Medium at this beginning of 21e century. The book of Philippe Forest History of Such as it is analyzes this historical period.

After having published the intermediary , the park , Drama , confirming its vocation of writer, it launches out in intense work stylistics which leads it to give up any visible punctuation to release its expression, which gives in particular Nombres , Lois , H and Paradis . Becoming aware of the risks of enfermement of this adventure, it launches out in a writing more " figurative". Influenced by the reading of Celine, Paul Morand and of the American great authors: William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac or Charles Bukowski (which it is one of rare to support at that time in France, especially after his passage very sprinkled on television), it publishes Femmes . This novel, by taking again the style of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, analyzes inter alia the consequences of the feminism and the political and artistic upheavals of the history through the adventurous life of an American journalist. The capacity and sexuality are studied and exposed starting from the thesis: " The world belongs to the women. I.e. with death. On top everyone ment".

Its writing is marked more and more by a use of the Cut-up and interior reflection. Other works in the same spirit follow: Carried of the player (return to the sources to the Gironde and epistolary passion), the absolute heart (account of libertinages), the French madnesses (happy inceste and French culture), the lily of gold (treatment of frigidity by the reading), the festival in Venice (reflection on painting around the figures of Watteau, Warhol, Monet and Cézanne), Studio (reflection on poetry around the figures of Rimbaud and Hölderlin), Passion fixes (the couple and literature), the star of the lovers (the escape and nature) and finally lately a divine life (Nietzsche, philosophy and women). It mingles with its unslung accounts a particularly violent social criticism supported by the knowledge and the use of the texts of Spinoza, Freud, Nietzsche, Ducasse, Heidegger and Guy Debord.

In same time, it writes tests of encyclopedic ambition, (" The future belongs to those which will be able to read, live the music and to make the amour"), in which it delivers its version of the history of art, based on the defense of the individual, creation and the pleasure ( Théorie of the exceptions , the war of the taste , Eloge of infinite the , Fleurs ). Mainly centered on the literature (Dante, Sade, Lautréamont, Proust, Broom, Kafka…), the music (Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Miles Davis) and the visual arts (Venetian painters and of the Italian rebirth, French painting of the XVIIIe, Impressionist, American modern painters), its matter develops nevertheless in all the fields (theology, philosophy, history, sociology, psychoanalysis). In the same direction it gives monographs of large artists (Watteau, Picasso, Fragonard, Bacon, Cézanne, Rodin) and three biographical novels (Vivant Denon, Casanova, Mozart). One can also announce vidéos on Rodin, Debord and Nietzsche as well as a discussion with Jean-Luc Godard.

It holds over very defending freedom: " It is precisely a question of fleeing the Family, the School, the Army, the Parties, gravity, the ennui" , " Actually, what do they all want, and all? To control, supervise, divert, delay, pump, exploit, to slow down to the maximum, that there is not too much freedom in progress (especially if it must be known as) ".

Sollers, which lives regularly Venice or with the Ile de Ré, also directs the collection " the infini" and is member of the reading panel of the Gallimard editions. Despite everything Barthes sees in him a " insulated absolu". As a whole, Sollers is still often more known for its media image, (" my image it is my corpse, I of fous"), which lets appear its taste for the play and the provocation, which for its work itself which remains rather little read and very ignored. Those which admire its books underline the density, poetic lyricism, the richness and the dash of its many novels and the clearness of its books on the traditional fine arts and writers.

Indicative bibliography

Tests

  • secret Wars , ED. Notebooks north, October 2007
  • Flowers , ED. Hermann, Logical October 2006
  • of the fiction , ED. Cecile defect 2006
  • the Saint-Ass , Verdier, 2004.
  • Dictionary in love with Venice , Plon, 2004
  • Illuminations through the crowned texts , 2003
  • Praise of Infinite the , ED. Gallimard, 2001
  • the year of the tiger, newspaper of the year 1998 , ED. Threshold, 1999
  • Sade against To be supreme it preceded by Sade in time , ED. Gallimard 1996
  • the War of the Taste , ED. Gallimard, 1994
    • Freedom of the XVIIIe (Extracted from the War of the Taste ) - ED. Gallimard, 2002
  • Improvisations , ED. Gallimard, 1991
  • Theory of the Exceptions , ED. Folio, 1985
  • On the Materialism , ED. Threshold, 1974
  • the Writing and the Experiment of the Limits , ED. Threshold, 1968
  • Logical , ED. Threshold, 1968
  • the Intermediary , ED. Threshold, 1963
  • Francis Ponge (Presentation and anthology), Seghers, 1963 rééd. 2001

Novels

  • a true novel - Memories - Plon, 2007
  • a Divine Life - ED. Gallimard, 2007
  • Flowers - ED. Hermann, 2006
  • the Star of the Lovers - ED. Gallimard, 2002
  • an American love - Thousand and One Nights, 2001
  • Passion Fixes - ED. Gallimard, 2000
  • Studio - ED. Gallimard, 1997
  • the Secrecy - ED. Gallimard, 1993
  • the Festival in Venice - ED. Gallimard, 1991
  • the Gold Lily - ED. Gallimard, 1989
  • French Madnesses - ED. Gallimard, 1988
  • the Absolute Heart - ED. Gallimard, 1987
  • Paradises 2 - ED. Gallimard, 1986
  • Portrait of the Player - ED. Gallimard, 1984
  • Women - ED. Gallimard, 1983
  • Paradise - ED. Threshold, 1981
  • H - ED. Threshold, 1973
  • Laws - ED. Threshold, 1972
  • Numbers - ED. Threshold, 1966
  • Drama - ED. Threshold, 1965
  • the Park - ED. Threshold, 1961
  • a Curious Loneliness - ED. Threshold, 1958

Monographs

  • Alain Kirili , Gallery Adrien Maeght, 1984
  • Louis Duck , catalogs reasoned sculptures, Galerie Beaubourg, 1986
  • the Surprises of Fragonard , Gallimard, 1987
  • Rodin: erotic drawings , with Alain Kirili, Gallimard, 1987
  • De Kooning quickly , the difference, 1988; republication 2007
  • Watteau and the women , Flammarion, 1992
  • the paradise of Cézanne , Gallimard, 1995
  • Picasso, the hero , the circle of art, 1996
  • passions of Francis Bacon , Gallimard, 1996

Talks

  • the Gospel of Nietzsche - seeks midday, 2006
  • Poker , (with Ligne of risk) - ED. Gallimard, coll the infinite one, 2005
  • See to write , (with Christian de Portzamparc) - Calmann-Levy, 2003
  • the Divine comedy , (with Benoit Chantre) - ED. Desclée de Brouwer, 2000
  • the Laughter of Rome - ED. Gallimard, 1992
  • Vision in New York , (with David Hayman) - ED. Grasset, 1981
  • Delivery , (with Maurice Clavel) - ED. Threshold, 1976
  • Discussions with Francis Ponge , ED. Threshold-Gallimard, 1963

Biographies

  • Mysterious Mozart , Plon, 2001; begun again in Folio at Gallimard.
  • Casanova admirable the , Plon, 1998; begun again in Folio at Gallimard.
  • the Rider of Louvre : Living Denon, Plon, 1995; begun again in Folio at Gallimard.
  • a true novel , Memories, (autobiography), Plon, 2007

Videos

  • Sollers in the paradise/Sollers with the foot of the wall , 1983, republished in 2007 by video Arcades
  • Sollers plays Diderot/the hole of the virgin , 1984, republished in 2007 by video Arcades
  • Sollers- Godard, maintenance , 1983, republished in 2006 by video Arcades
  • Nietzsche, French miracle , the films of the LOCALITY, 2006

Quotations

" The very whole company as place of breeding where the most endowed animals systematically would be removed, to keep only the level moyen."

" One measures still badly, perhaps, at which point a great writer wounds the body and the safe of his country; at which point makes it recall to the national clannish family on which domestic and public crimes it is finally founded; at which point to reveal the bed of a language can involve hatred, of deaf person resentment, filtered only by time in célébration."

" Splendid lust! How she says the truth! How it distresses sparing hypocrisy and its deep fecality! How it will flush out the devil until in the grimaces devotions supposed! "

" The social animal always feels that something is likely to escape to him, especially in writing. It thus must, in good logic, to block the body which would be the source."

" The whole world is a theater, and the musician like the poet, in with the key and the éclairages."

" Official French still seeks to avoid Artaud, Bataille, Céline… A writer, on this level, it is a catastrophe for the hearths, i.e. the School, i.e. the State, i.e. the policy of the sleep in heap. What can the literature? Nothing in terms progress and arrangements, all in terms of truth. Nothing for hypocrisy social link and the family romance, very to show how the censure." is tied;

" Fear of enjoying, true curse of times known as modernes."

" Nothing makes more fear, undoubtedly, than the possibilities of individual autonomy of the femmes."

" More than ever the Company is persuaded to be good, its spontaneous hypocrisy functions through stereotypes autopublicitaires. Its principal enemy will thus not be, as she wants to make it believe, the individual which has impure thoughts, the extremist, the terrorist, but well that which is expressed differently, in a clearer way, more complexe."

" As we are, yes, in one heavy time, illiterate and sad (that of the invaluable populism), all must have the authentic and demagogic air, whereas reign, under cover of “heart”, a shown a profit coldness. The brutality on a side and the sentimentalism of the other replaced the sensitivity and the irony of the taste. It would thus be necessary to be bored? It would be a dogma? Eh well, non."

" Television, is not this, will be sufficient. To die healthy and poisoned images, here is the programme."

" There is no more censure? Thus let us go. It is in the heads, partout."

" The adventure of a singular body, not collectivisable, its gestures, its initiatives, its postures, start a concern permanente."

" The problem will be from now on: how to find a body, and which? "

" The war takes place, from now on, between the individual and the city, the individual and the Spectacle in his ensemble."

" All that television is not likely to show or of exhiber at once has a doubtful reality. The opinion from now on it is the screen. An big family in front of the screen, spasm of emotive TV rating, here is the théâtre."

" at me as it arrived the great thought it slowly circumvented me drowned it took its time in my place it acts of a very personal experiment as nothing obliges to communicate but the rapture which streams about it overflows in spite of us the cups and will turn blue paper and paper at this time is a blotter assoifé ozone carbon clay rayée" ( Paradise )

" That which cannot laugh should not be taken with the sérieux." ( Passion Fixes )

Question with pH. S.: " You always believe that we are victims of a great plot, that of the community which would like to make us feel guilty something, to prevent us from being happy and of living being? "

Answer of pH. S.: You never noticed that the company prevented you living your desires or from comprising you as you hear it, you, only? You never felt this influence, say to me? Because me, I feel that since childhood: how it would be necessary to be there, labelled, subjected, servile. And then to keep silent itself! You do not believe? ( Emission TV " This evening or jamais" )

" As I cannot obtain the approval of my time (especially because of my too free novels), I think that it is necessary to use, at least, his réprobation" ( a true novel, Memories )

" The disease of adolescence (...) is not to know what one wants but to want it at all costs. "

On Sollers

  • Angerer, Eva: Die Literaturtheorie Julia Kristevas. Von Such as it is zur Psychoanalyze. Wien, Passagen 2007. ISBN 9783851656923
  • Barthes, Roland: Sollers writer. Paris 1979. ISBN 2-02-005187-7
  • Jacques Derrida the dissemination. Paris 1972. (p.319-407) ISBN 2-02-001958-2
  • Julia Kristeva, Polylogue Paris, Threshold 1977.
  • Michel Foucault, Distance, aspect, origin: Philippe Sollers , Critical n° 198, November 1963
  • Kaucic, Gerhard/Timothy Liegeti: Guy Overflow John Zorn Friederike Mayröcker Philippe Sollers: such as it is botanical gardens and D words/and voice scribbles. - In: Die Grüne F Abyss. International polylinguale Zeitschrift für Grüne Kultur/Politik. Nr.16b/1996, S. 117ff.
  • Hilary Clarke, The Fictional Encyclopedia: Joyce, Pound, Sollers , 1990, (ISBN 0-8240-0006-4)
  • Forest, Philippe: Philippe Sollers, Threshold, 1992

External bonds

  • Traced in the novels of Philippe Sollers
  • '' On '' and '' around '' of Philippe Sollers
  • the collection the Infinite one with the Editions Gallimard
  • Discussion with in situ review! on " Paradis"
  • Joseph de Maistre by Philippe Sollers
  • Article on Philippe Sollers by Jean d' Ormesson
  • Philippe Sollers
  • Michel Beaujour, University of New York (NYU) - Barthes and Sollers
  • Line of risk
  • Personal site

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