Michel Butor

Michel Marie François Butor (born 14 September 1926 in Mons -en- Barœul in Lille ) is a French writer.

Life

Michel Butor is considered an important representative of the Nouveau Roman, which he has, however, adopted by its own account in 1960. Be counted among others Claude Simon, Robert Pinget, Alain Robbe- Grillet, Maurice Blanchot and Marguerite Duras to this narrative. After the departure from the Nouveau Roman, he has written several hundred books with experimental texts partly together with painters and graphic artists who have appeared in part only in the smallest Lovers Out gifts.

Butor studied philosophy and philology at the Sorbonne in Paris and then worked as a French teacher in Egypt, Manchester, Salonika and Geneva. Later Butor was an editor at the publishing house Gallimard in Paris. From 1975 to 1991 he taught French literature at the University of Geneva.

Awards

Works

• Passage de Milan (1954, German 1967; Übs: Helmut Scheffel )
• L' emploi du temps ( The schedule ) (1957, German 1960; Übs: Helmut Scheffel )
• La Modification (Paris- Rome or Modification ) (1957, German 1957; Übs: Helmut Scheffel )
• Degrés ( steps) (1960, German 1964)
• Le genie du lieu (1958, 1962 German genius loci; Übs: Helmut Scheffel )
• Mobile: étude pour une représentation des États -Unis (1962 )
• Niagra (1969 )
• Retour du boomerang (1988 )
• L' embarquement de la reine de Saba (1989 )
• Transit A, B Transit (1992 )

• Degrés (1960 )
• Repertoire [I à V] (1960-1982)
• Les mots dans la peinture (1969 )
• Matière de rêves (1975-1985)
• Improvisations sur Rimbaud ( essay on Rimbaud ) (1989, German 1994)
• L' utilité poétique (1995 )