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A great signature of contemporary French literature, Philippe Sollers, 86, has died. In addition to his forty novels and published essays, he had marked the world of literature. He was also a major publisher, and at the microphone of Europe 1, he confided that he wanted to publish "younger" authors.

He had marked the world of literature, both by his papers in magazines and also, sometimes, by his big mouth. The writer Philippe Sollers has died at the age of 86. Le Parc in 1961, Prix Médicis, Passion fixe in 2000 and Portrait du joueur in 1984 are among the forty novels and essays published in his career.

"Trying" to put young authors "forward"

This great signature was also a great publisher. At the microphone of Europe 1, Philippe Sollers evoked this role a few years ago. "I'm interested in trying to publish younger people who don't have the time, a lot, to be able to assert themselves," he explained. For him, everything had become "very, very difficult, much more difficult than a long time ago for people who are 22, 25, 30 years old".

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"If the first book is taken, the second will not necessarily be," continued the writer. "My modest activity is to try to highlight them, and to try that they can continue to exist," said Philippe Sollers. At the microphone of Europe 1 this Saturday in Europe 1 Soir Week-end, the journalist Franz-Olivier Giesbert, recalling the Maoist commitment of the writer, praised a great literary critic.