In Portrait du Joueur ("Portrait of a Player," untranslated, 1985) in particular, he described his childhood as the son of the wealthy bourgeoisie, as well as the family lore of his origins. Philippe Sollers, was born Philippe Joyaux on November 28, 1936, in Talence, near Bordeaux, a city which, together with Venice, constituted for him the other capital of the great Southern civilization he recognized as his only true homeland, that of Hölderlin and Casanova. He will be buried at Ars-en-Ré, in western France, in a private familial ceremony. Sollers died on Saturday, May 6, in Paris, at the age of 86. Nowadays, it was, perhaps, nevertheless true, that the sense of being "destined for happiness" that Rimbaud evokes in A Season in Hell seems to have determined his life, now that it is over.
Philippe Sollers loved to recount how, when he met André Breton in 1960, the writer and poet gave him a copy of the Surrealist Manifesto with the following message: "To Philippe Sollers, loved by fairies." Sollers was often amused by those who, using a similar image and, as I do myself the day after his death, joked about how fairies had once leaned over his cradle. Subscribers only Philippe Sollers, in Paris, January 15, 2011. The French writer, who wrote 'A Strange Solitude,' founded two successful journals and was the heart of Paris' intellectual scene in the 1960s and 70s, died at the age of 86 on May 6.īy Philippe Forest (writer) Published on May 6, 2023, at 11:16 am (Paris), updated on May 6, 2023, at 11:28 am Philippe Sollers, novelist, critic and essayist, has died
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