William Marx
William Marx (born August 31, 1966) is a French French writer, essayist, critic and literary historian. He is a researcher at the Collège de France,[1] where he is professor of Comparative Literature.[2] In 2010 he received the Montyon Prize of the Académie française.[3] In 2022 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.[4]
Biography
William Marx was born in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. A alumni of the Lycée Thiers, he was admitted to the École normale supérieure in 1986. He received his agrégation in Classics in 1989, and a doctorate in comparative literature from the Paris-Sorbonne University (2000). In 2005, he received his habilitation to direct research at the Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis. For several years he directed the Valéry team at the Institute of Modern Texts and Manuscripts (CNRS/ENS). In 2009, he became a professor at the Paris Nanterre University.
He is also an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France and of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Publications
- Naissance de la critique moderne. La littérature selon Eliot et Valéry (1889-1945) (2002)
- Les Arrière-gardes au xxe siècle: l'autre face de la modernité esthétique (2004; 2008; editor)
- L'Adieu à la littérature. Histoire d’une dévalorisation (xviiie-xxe siècle) (2005)
- Jean Prévost aux avant-postes (2006; editor; with Jean-Pierre Longre)
- Le Récit. Actes de savoirs, No. 4 (2008; editor)
- Vie du lettré (2009; awarded the Prix Montyon in 2010 by the Académie française)
- Le Tombeau d'Œdipe. Pour une tragédie sans tragique (2012; translated by Nicholas Elliott as The Tomb of Oedipus: Why Greek Tragedies Were not Tragic, 2022)
- La Haine de la littérature (2015; translated by Nicholas Elliott as The Hatred of Literature, 2018)
- Un savoir gai (2018)
- Vivre dans la bibliothèque du monde (2020)
- Des étoiles nouvelles. Quand la littérature découvre le monde (2021)
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