William Marx
William Marx, Professor at the Collège de France, holder of the Comparative Literatures chair, member of the Academia Europaea. His books, most published by Éditions de Minuit and translated into several languages, include L'Adieu à la littérature (2005), Vie du lettré ( 2009), Le Tombeau d'Œdipe (2012), La Haine de la littérature (2015), Un savoir gai (2018), Vivre dans la bibliothèque du monde (Fayard, 2020) and Des étoiles nouvelles (2021). In 2023, he published Paul Valéry's Cours de poétique (Gallimard, 2 vol.).
