Pascal Bruckner

David John Gascoigne (University of St Andrews)

Ed. by David Houston Jones, University of Exeter
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 15 Dec 1948
Activity 1990-ongoing

Places

Born in France
Active in France

Activities

Primary

Cultural Theorist/ Critic
Essayist

Resources

Bruckner's Works

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Pascal Bruckner, often categorised with Bernard-Henri Lévy, André Glucksmann and Alain Finkielkraut as one of the “New Philosophers” group, has established a distinctive profile both as essayist and as novelist, winning prizes for both formats, notably the “Prix Médicis de l’Essai” for

La Tentation de l’innocence

[The Temptation of Innocence] in 1995 and the Prix Renaudot for

Voleurs de beauté

[Robbers of Beauty] in 1997. His influence has become more marked as his analyses of political, social and sexual attitudes have appeared to many to be ever more pertinent, and works by him have been variously translated into several European languages.

His family background is a cosmopolitan one, drawing on both Spanish-Catholic and exiled-Protestant roots from his mother and father

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Citation: Gascoigne, David John. "Pascal Bruckner". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 July 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12702, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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