Antoine Compagnon is a Professor at the Collège de France, where he holds the
Chair of Modern and Contemporary French Literature. A historian of French literature, of theory and of literary criticism, his works include
La Seconde Main ou le travail de la citation (Seuil, 1979),
Nous, Michel de Montaigne (Seuil, 1980),
La Troisième République des Lettres (Seuil, 1983),
Proust entre deux siècles (Seuil, 1989 – published in English as
Proust Between Two Centuries, Columbia
UP, 1992),
Les Cinq Paradoxes de la modernité (Seuil, 1990 –
The Five Paradoxes of Modernity, Columbia
UP, 1994),
Le Démon de la théorie (Seuil, 1998 –
Literature, Theory and Common Sense, Princeton
UP, 2004). In this interview, he discusses the [Passage des disciplines project>
http://www.fabula.org/actualites/passage-des-disciplines-etats-des-lieux_56991.php], which he is currently running, and the anthology
La Grande guerre des écrivains , which was recently published by Gallimard.
Prise de vue et montage : A. Suhamy
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Lucie Campos, « The Tumults of the Twentieth Century. An Interview with Antoine Compagnon »,
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