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date: 25 January 2025

Sollers, Philippe 

Source:
A Dictionary of Critical Theory
Author(s):

Ian Buchanan

(1936–)French writer and editor. Born in Bordeaux to a middle-class family of factory owners, he was educated at the Jesuits’ École Sainte-Geneviève, but was expelled. He pretended to have schizophrenia to escape compulsory military service in Algeria. He adopted the nom de plume Sollers (his real name is Joyaux) in the early 1950s. His first novel ... ...

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