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by Philippe Sollers

"Les raisons pour lesquelles ce livre ne peut pas comporter de présentation seraient sans doute aussi longues à exposer que ce livre lui-même. Il faut donc éprouver son rythme : dictions, timbres, accents, ponctuation latente, tourbillon, flot, appel. Au-delà de l'automatisme un calcul joue, veille, critique, partant à la fois de tous les points de l'histoire. Ce calcul se dit par masses dans l'unité discontinue de ses coupes. Il module, frappe, chuchote, apostrophe, marque, efface, compte, signale l'absence mouvante mais cependant adressée, dialoguée, de toute langue de fond.Voilà, détendez-vous, c'est clair. Restez sur le sens, c'est simple. Ils sont deux, ici, dans la nuit. Tempo."Philippe Sollers, 1973.

Genres: Literature

238 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1973

About the author

Philippe Sollers (born Philippe Joyaux) is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the avant garde journal Tel Quel (along with the writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), published by Seuil, which ran until 1982. In 1982 Sollers then created the journal L'Infini published by Denoel which was later published under the same title by Gallimard for whom Sollers also directs the series.

Sollers was at the heart of the intense period of intellectual unrest in the Paris of the 1960s and 1970s. Among others, he was a friend of Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser and Roland Barthes. These three characters are described in his novel, Femmes (1983) alongside a number of other figures of the French intellectual movement before and after May 1968. From A Strange Solitude, The Park and Event, through "Logiques", Lois and Paradis, down to Watteau in Venice, Une vie divine and "La Guerre du goût", the writings of Sollers have often provided contestation, provocation and challenging.

In his book Writer Sollers, Roland Barthes discusses the work of Phillippe Sollers and the meaning of language.

Sollers married Julia Kristeva in 1967.

Reviews

[Omar Abu Samra · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Their literature’s becoming bloody boring”

A work of Master!