Michel Butor's enduring reputation may well rest on his four early novels, published from 1954 to 1960. Although he has not, since Degrés of 1960, published a work that resembles a novel in the generally accepted definition of the genre, he has...

ABSTRACT: As a first person New Novel, Michel Butor's L'Emploi du temps foregrounds narrative indeterminacy in different ways. When the narrator-protagonist of the novel, Jacques Revel, confesses his misdeeds and offers excuses for them, he is guilty of bad faith in the Sartrian...

The writer Michel Butor has had a varied and active contact with the visual arts, being a prolific art critic, and working with several contemporary artists. The references to art and architecture in Michel Butor's La Modification are examined, concentrating on their contribution to...

In the following essay, Jullien explores the idea of Racinian intertextuality in L’Emploi du temps.

In the following essay, Mason examines Butor's use of dreams and alchemical symbols in Portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe to interpret the artistic experience.

In the following essay, Mason discusses Butor's preoccupation with “whiteness,” how it manifests itself in his writing, and how Belgian artist Christian Dotremont influenced Butor's work.