Philippe Sollers died on May 6
.
Writer and editor at Editions Gallimard, he left a rich body of work with dozens of novels, essays and correspondence.
A figure long admired or hated, he was also a secret man.
To read and reread, as written for
"
Le Figaro
"
, Stéphane Barsacq (latest work published,
Solstices Corlevour
).
I remember that a major weekly had proposed to Philippe Sollers to write John Paul II's obituary several years before the death of the sovereign pontiff.
He declined, arguing that he should be recalled on the day of death, but not sooner: because on that day, we would know who he would have been.
After all, isn't it the same thought that we read in Jean Anouilh, whose irony he prized: “Before the day of his death, no one knows exactly his courage.
(
Becket
, Act I, Scene 2)?
Pope of literature, Philippe Sollers therefore died on the day of the coronation of the King of England, he who, as a Girondin, liked to recall that he had…
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