Philippe Vilain


Philippe Vilain is a French man of letters, writer, essayist, doctor of modern literature of the.

Biography

His literary work presents itself as an exploration of the consciousness of love: jealousy, the guilt of not loving enough, commitment, adultery, paternity, shyness, cultural and social difference.
His theoretical work questions contemporary literature and Autofiction. A new defining pact is advanced in L’autofiction en théorie; Fiction homonymique ou anominale qu’un individu fait de sa vie ou d’une partie de celle-ci.
After La Dernière Année Paris l’après-midi Pas son genre, his seventh novel was the subject of a cinematographic adaptation by director Lucas Belvaux in 2014, under the same title.
In April 2013, at the International Symposium Les intermittences du sujet : écritures de soi et discontinu , the University of Upper Alsace welcomed Philippe Vilain for a day of study on his work. A university book was published following this study day: Philippe Vilain ou la dialectique des genres, under the direction of Arnaud Schmitt and Philippe Weigel, which brought together contributions of, Jean Pierrot, Marc Dambre and Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre.
His novel La Femme infidèle was awarded the Prix Jean Freustié in 2013.
Villain is an associate member of the CERACC at the university Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III.

Works

Novels

2016: La littérature sans idéal'', Grasset,

Preface

Theatre