Born on November 28, 1936 in Talence, near Bordeaux, into a bourgeois family, Philippe Sollers was considered one of the best-known literary figures in France in the past half century and was a precocious writer.
His first work, A strange loneliness was published when he was 22 years old and three years later, in 1961, won the Médicis prize with the work The park.
The author, who escaped a war in Algeria in 1962, claimed schizophrenia, lived with much 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 the companions of Philippe Sollers who cultivated the iconoclastic reputation. The texts of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) made a deep impression on him.
The writer, who started a communist struggle in his youth, 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 Grailin 2022.
Source: DN
