Philippe Vilain

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

Biography His literary work presents itself as an exploration of the consciousness of love: jealousy (L'Étreinte), the guilt of not loving enough (Le Renoncement), commitment (L'Été à Dresde), adultery (Paris l'après-midi, La Femme infidèle), paternity (Faux-père), shyness (Confession d’un timide), cultural and social difference (Pas son genre).

His theoretical work questions contemporary literature (Dans le séjour des corps. Essai sur Marguerite Duras) 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 (adapted to theatre -Proscenium- by in 2002, ) Paris l'après-midi (Prix François Mauriac of the Académie française 2007, ) Pas son genre, his seventh novel (prix Scrivere per amore 2012 in Italy, ) 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 (1913-2013), 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 CERACC (Centre d'Etudes sur le Roman des Années Cinquante au Contemporain) at the university Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III.

Recognition and awards Prix François Mauriac of the Académie française 2007 for Paris l'après-midi Prix Scrivere per amore 2012 in Italy for Pas son genre Prix Jean Freustié 2013 for La Femme infidèle Prix Méditerranée 2023 for La Malédition de la Madone

Works Novels 1997: L'Étreinte, Éditions Gallimard, 1999: La Dernière Année, Gallimard, 2001: Le Renoncement, novel, Gallimard, 2003: L'Été à Dresde, novel, Gallimard, 2006: Paris l'après-midi, Éditions Grasset, , Prix François Mauriac of the Académie française 2007 2008: Faux-père, Grasset, 2011: Pas son genre, Grasset, , (reissued in 2014 at the time of the cinematographic adaptation of Lucas Belvaux Pas son genre), Prix Scrivere per amore 2012 in Italy 2013: La Femme infidèle, Grasset, , Prix Jean Freustié 2013 2015: Une idée de l'enfer, Grasset

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 (University of Toronto), vol. XVIII, n° 2, Autumn/Winter 2006, p. 27-33. Entre Egoismo e generosidade, interview with Miguel Conde, O Globo, Prosa § Verso (Brazil), 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 (Italy), n° 10, 5 March 2012. Tout le monde est écrivain sauf moi (2003), in Philippe Sollers. Fugues, Gallimard, 2012.

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

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.