Former
Le Monde
columnist
and literary critic Pierre Lepape died on Saturday at the age of 80, his editor told AFP.
"He died in the early hours of Saturday, December 18, at Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris,"
said Editions du Seuil in a press release.
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“Journalist, literary critic, biographer, Pierre Lepape was also an essayist of a rare culture
, salutes Le Seuil.
A committed man, particularly with the Algerian FLN, he has long held the Literary Feuilleton in Le Monde, never ceasing to cross and fertilize his passion for literature with the breath of history ”.
Born in 1941 in Rugles (Eure), spending his youth in Le Havre, he abandoned his literary studies to start journalism, first in Paris-Normandy, before leaving for
Télérama
,
Les Nouvelles littéraire
s then
Le Monde. ,
in his supplement
Le Monde des livres.
His published work includes two essays hailed for their finesse,
The Land of Literature
(2007), a fresco on the place of literature in the history of France, and
A history of romance novels
(2011), as well as biographies writers: Charles Sorel, Voltaire, Denis Diderot and André Gide.
Le Seuil also published
Noir et or
in 2015,
“an unexpected novel co-signed with his wife Michèle Gazier”
, a contemporary rewrite of a Stendhal classic,
Le Rouge et le Noir.
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