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Pascal Bruckner

パスカール・ブリュックナー

Pasukaru Buryukkunā

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1948-12-15 (Paris)
Nationality
France
Languages
French
Religion
Catholic
Residence History
Paris

Career

Occupations
writer, philosopher
Active Years
1976-
Affiliations
Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
Memberships
Nouveaux Philosophes
Influenced By
Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Roland Barthes
Influenced
Maurice Dantec, Michel Houellebecq

Education

Paris I
Country: France
University Paris Diderot
Country: France
École Pratique des Hautes Études
Country: France

Awards

Prix Renaudot
1997
Work: Les voleurs de beauté
Result: 受賞
Prix Médicis
1995
Work: La tentation de l'innocence
Category: エッセイ部門
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Le Sanglot de l'homme blanc

1983 Essay

Critique of Western left-wing sentimentalism towards the Third World.

Western guiltThird Worldism

La tentation de l'innocence

1995 Essay

Explores the temptation of innocence in modern society.

InnocenceModern society

Les voleurs de beauté

1997 Novel

Prix Renaudot winner.

BeautyTheft

La Tyrannie de la pénitence

2006 Essay

Essay on Western masochism and guilt.

GuiltWest

Bibliography

  • Parias
  • Evil Angels
  • They Stole Our Beauty
  • The Divine Child
  • The Temptation of Innocence
  • The Tears of the White Man
  • The Tyranny of Guilt

Adaptations

  • Lunes de fiel adapted into film by Roman Polanski

Style & Themes

Literary Style
polemicalcritical
Recurring Motifs
Western guiltcriticism of multiculturalism

Legacy

French writer and philosopher known for critiques of French society as part of the New Philosophers.

Trivia

  • Attended Jesuit schools in youth.
  • Father was an antisemite who worked in Nazi Germany.