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L'Écluse by Jean-Pierre Faye — book cover

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Prix Renaudot1964Winner

About the Author

Jean-Pierre Faye (born July 19, 1925, in Paris) is a French philosopher, writer, and poet known for his influential essays on totalitarian languages such as Langages Totalitaires (1972) and Théorie du récit, as well as his Prix Renaudot-winning novel L'Écluse (1964). He founded the literary review Change, co-authored the "Blue Report" leading to the Collège international de philosophie, and originated the horseshoe theory of political ideology. French

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