The writer, who died in the night from Friday to Saturday at the age of 73, had confided at length to the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, in January 2018 on Europe 1. Find this interview in full. 

Writer, journalist, essayist… The man of letters Denis Tillinac died in the night from Friday to Saturday, at the age of 73.

The author of sixty books, several of which had been awarded prizes, died a year to the day after the death of Jacques Chirac, of whom he was a close friend. 

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"The social figure of the writer is marginalized"

In 2018, Denis Tillinac had confided at length to the microphone of Isabelle Morizet in

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, on Europe 1. "I realized that the social figure of the writer is marginalizes, hence the right to a certain melancholy which is the salt of the writer, "he whispered then.

"Because if you do not comply, you are reacted. The word does not mean anything any more, that the demonization of an adversary that one does not want to listen to…"

>> Find this interview in full above.