Michel Butor died

On August 24, in the hospital of the Kontamin-Sure-Arv commune, the French writer Michel Butor, one of the founders of the New Roman, died in the Department of Verkhnyaya Savoy at the age of 89.

It is reported by Le Monde .

Michel Butor was born in 1926 in the city of Mons-en-Barel in the north of France, studied philosophy in the Sorbonne (graduated in 1947), subsequently taught in Egypt, Manchester, Saloniki, USA, Geneva.

The author of four novels is “Milan passage” (1954), “pastime” (1956), “Change” (1957), “The degree of human kinship” (1960), as well as books of poems and essays. Laureate of many literary awards, including the Renodo Awards for the novel “Change” and the Great Literary Prize of the French Academy (2013).

Critics include Michel’s work of a butor with the direction of “New Roman” or “Antroman”, which developed in French prose in the late 1940s and early 1960s. Representatives of this direction are characterized by the opposition of their works by the socio-critical novel of the Balzakov type with a complex plot and a large number of characters.