Portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe: Capriccio - Softcover

Butor, Michel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2070211029 ISBN 13: 9782070211029

Publisher: GALLIMARD, 1967

Synopsis

Michel Butor (born 14 September 1926) is a French writer. Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1947. He has taught in Egypt, Manchester, Salonika, the United States, and Geneva. He has won many literary awards for his work, including the Prix Apollo, the Prix Fénéon and the Prix Renaudot. Journalists and critics associated his novels with the nouveau roman, but Butor himself has long resisted that association. The main point of similarity is a very general one, not much beyond that; like exponents of the nouveau roman, he can be described as an experimental writer. His best-known novel, La Modification, for instance, is written entirely in the second person.[citation needed] In his 1967 La critique et l'invention, he famously said that even the most literal quotation is already a kind of parody because of its "trans-contextualization."[1][2][3][4] For decades now, he has chosen to work in other forms, from essays to poetry to artist's books[5] to unclassifiable works like Mobile. Literature, painting and travel are subjects particularly dear to Butor. Part of the fascination of his writing is the way it combines the rigorous symmetries that led Roland Barthes to praise him as an epitome of structuralism (exemplified, for instance, by the architectural scheme of Passage de Milan or the calendrical structure of L'emploi du temps) with a lyrical sensibility more akin to Baudelaire than to Robbe-Grillet. In an interview in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, conducted in 2006,[6] the poet John Ashbery describes how he wanted to sit next to Michel Butor at a dinner in New York. source: Wikipedia

About this edition

• Publisher: GALLIMARD
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 2070211029
• ISBN 13: 9782070211029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240