Philippe Vilain


Philippe Vilain is a French man of letters, writer, essayist, doctor of modern literature of the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.
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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

Essays

  • 2005: Défense de Narcisse, followed by an interview with Serge Doubrovsky, Grasset
  • 2005: Retours à Hugo, photographs by Jean-Luc Chapin, Confluences
  • 2009: L'Autofiction en théorie, followed by two interviews with Philippe Sollers and Philippe Lejeune, La Transparence
  • 2009: Confession d'un timide, Grasset
  • 2010: Dans le séjour des corps. Essay on Marguerite Duras, La Transparence, series "Essais d'esthétique"
  • 2011: Dit-il. Based on by Marguerite Duras, éditions Cécile Defaut
  • 2011: Éloge de l'arrogance, Éditions du Rocher
  • 2016: La littérature sans idéal, Grasset,
  • 2020: La Passion d'Orphée, Grasset.

Preface

Le donjuanisme est un humanisme, preface Don Juan by Molière, Hatier, 2009.

Interviews

Je interdit ?, information gathered by Anne Crignon, Le Nouvel Observateur, n° 2101, 10–16 February 2005.Philippe Vilain l’immoraliste, information gathered by Emmanuelle Desforges, Littéréalité, vol. XVIII, n° 2, Autumn/Winter 2006, p. 27-33.Entre Egoismo e generosidade, interview with Miguel Conde, O Globo, Prosa § Verso, 17 November 2007.L’amour, comme pour Stendhal, est ma grande affaire, interview with Vincent Roy. Transfuge, April 2011.L’amore ? E una questione di soldi, interview with Gianni Rossi Barilli, Grazia, n° 10, 5 March 2012.Tout le monde est écrivain sauf moi, in Philippe Sollers. Fugues, Gallimard, 2012.

Television

Bouillon de culture, hosted by Bernard Pivot, France 2, 15 October 1999Ce soir ou jamais, hosted by Frédéric Taddeï, France 3, 23 November 2006

Distinctions

Adaptations of his works

Theatre

La Dernière Année, adapted to theatre -Proscenium- by Jean-Paul Muel in 2002.

Cinema

Not My Type, based on his eponymous novel, French film directed by Lucas Belvaux, 2014.

Articles

  • Johan Faerber, Une vie sans histoire. Ou l’impact autobiographique dans l’œuvre de Philippe Vilain, Revue de Littérature Comparée, January–March 2008, p. 131-140.
  • Philippe Gasparini, Autofiction. Une aventure du langage.- Paris: Éditions du Seuil, series "Poétique", 2008, p. 262-266.
  • Sabine Van Wesemael, Philippe Vilain se penche sur le miroir de son enfance, Actes du Colloque Relations familiales dans les littératures française et francophones des XXe et XXIe siècles : la figure de la mère, Université de Pau, 26 October 2006, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2008, p. 47-56.

Printed press

  • Christine Rousseau, 'J’ai le sentiment d’être écrit par l’écriture', in Le Monde des Livres, 3 October 2008.
  • Sophie Pujas, Philippe Vilain : Vaine pudeur, Transfuge, June 2010.
  • Emmanuel Gehrig, L’audace du timide, Le Temps, August 2010.