Born 28 November 1936 in Talence, just outside of Bordeaux, Philippe Sollers was the fourth and last child of Octave Joyaux, an atheist and a bourgeois owner of a factory in the family since the mid nineteenth century, and his Catholic Parisian wife....
Paris. Plon. 2001. 243 pages. 18.40 [euro] ISBN 2-259-19106-1 PHILIPPE SOLLERS HAS both an ear and a passion for music, reflected in his baritone singing voice and in his talent for playing the piano and the harpsichord. He is also a virtuoso composer...
Since 1983, beginning with Femmes, Philippe Sollers has published nine novels of which the last, Passion fixe, appeared in March 2000 (I am not including the experimental novel Paradis in this group). Emerging from common characteristics in all these novels is a narrator persona...
