The writer Michel Butor, figure of the Nouveau Roman, died

As if to defend quite exceptional dimensions of his work and its variety, with a considerable space left to criticism and analysis of the classics, Michel Butor said, distinguishing itself from other writers of the New Novel:

"I was the only teacher. I was constantly obliged by honesty, situate what I wrote or what other qu'écrivaient compared to what had happened before and the general situation where we apparaissions. I hope I have made some innovations. But I think I have brought a lot more novelty after my romantic period than during the same period. If I brought something new is that I was driven by the momentum of news that comes from the depths of centuries. "

"I was very critical of my life on all sides. I really outraged. So I needed accomplices. Contemporaries were not sufficient to me. Some have helped me, but it was insufficient. I needed Respondents "much better placed" ... That's why I wrote many critical essays. "

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