Michel (Marie-Fran

Critic and novelist, born in Mons-en-Baroeul, W France. He studied at the Sorbonne, became lecturer at the University of Manchester ((1951–3), and taught at Thessaloniki (1954–5) and Geneva (1956–7). A leading exponent of the ‘nouveau roman’, his novels include Passage de Milan (1954), L'Emploi du temps (1956, Prix Féréon), La Modification (1957, Prix Renaudot), and Degrés (1960). Among later works are Portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe (1967), the non-fiction Boomerang (1978), and several volumes of poetry, his collection A la frontière appearing in 1996. He also collaborated on an opera, Votre Faust (1962) with Henri Pousseur.

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Michel Butor (b.

Novels

Passage de Milan (1954) L'emploi du temps (tr. Second Thoughts) (1957) Degrés (1960)

Criticism

Histoire extraordinaire: essai sur un rêve de Baudelaire (1961) Les mots dans la peinture (1969) Improvisations sur Flaubert (1984) Improvisations sur Michel Butor: L'écriture en transformation (1993) L'utilité poétique (1995) Quant au livre: Triptyque en l'honneur de Gauguin (2000)

Essays

Répertoires [I à V] (1960-1982)

Other

Le Génie de lieu (1958) Mobile : étude pour une représentation des États-Unis (tr. Mobile: Study for a Representation of the US.) (1962) Portrait de l'artiste en jeune singe (1967) Niagara (1969) Matière de rêves (1975-1985) Retour du boomerang (1988) L'embarquement de la reine de Saba (1989) Transit A, Transit B (1992)