" All one man, made of all men " : obscure lives and endings in contemporary storytelling

A former student at the École normale supérieure and professor of comparative literature at Nanterre between 1998 and 2004, then at Paris-IV (now Sorbonne University) since 2004, Jean-Yves Masson is a translator from German, English and Italian, writer and literary critic. He has also been publisher at Éditions Verdier since 1991, and founder and managing director of Éditions de la Coopérative since 2015. He is also president of the Maison des écrivains et de la littérature.