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Michel Butor (French: [miʃɛl bytɔʁ]; 14 September 1926 – 24 August 2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator.[1][2]

Michel Butor
Michel Butor in 2002
BornMichel Marie François Butor
(1926-09-14)14 September 1926
Mons-en-Barœul, Nord, France
Died24 August 2016(2016-08-24) (aged 89)
Contamine-sur-Arve, France
OccupationWriter
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Genre
  • Novel
  • criticism
Notable worksL'Emploi du temps
La Modification
Mobile

Life and work


Michel Marie François Butor was born in Mons-en-Barœul, a suburb of Lille, the third of seven children. His parents were Émile Butor (1891–1960), a railroad inspector and Anna (née Brajeux, 1896–1972). He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1947.[3] He taught in Egypt, Manchester, Thessaloniki, the United States, and Geneva. He won many literary awards for his work, including the Prix Fénéon and the Prix Renaudot.

Journalists and critics have associated his novels with the nouveau roman, but Butor himself long resisted that association. The main point of similarity is a very general one, not much beyond that; like exponents of the nouveau roman, he can be described as an experimental writer.[4] His best-known novel, La Modification, for instance, is written entirely in the second person.[5] In his 1967 La critique et l'invention, he famously said that even the most literal quotation is already a kind of parody because of its "trans-contextualization."[6][7][8][9]

For decades, he chose to work in other forms, from essays to poetry to artist's books[10] to unclassifiable works like Mobile. For artists' books he collaborated with artists like Gérard Serée.[11] Literature, painting and travel were subjects particularly dear to Butor. Part of the fascination of his writing is the way it combines the rigorous symmetries that led Roland Barthes to praise him as an epitome of structuralism (exemplified, for instance, by the architectural scheme of Passage de Milan or the calendrical structure of L'emploi du temps) with a lyrical sensibility more akin to Baudelaire than to Robbe-Grillet.

In an interview in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, conducted in 2006,[12] the poet John Ashbery describes how he wanted to sit next to Michel Butor at a dinner in New York.

After meeting in 1977, Butor became a friend of Elinor S. Miller, a French professor at Rollins College at the time.[13] They worked collaboratively on translations, catalogues and lectures. In 2002, Miller published a book on Butor entitled Prisms and Rainbows: Michel Butor's Collaborations with Jacques Monory, Jiri Kolar, and Pierre Alechinsky.[14]


Awards and honors



Bibliography



Novels



Experimental texts



Travel writing



Other



Poetry



Essays



Art criticism



Interviews and conversations



Compilations in English



References


  1. L’écrivain Michel Butor, figure du Nouveau Roman, est mort (in French)
  2. French writer Michel Butor dies aged 89: family Archived 2016-09-17 at the Wayback Machine
  3. His DES thesis (diplôme d'études supérieures [fr], roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) under Gaston Bachelard was titled Les Mathématiques et l'idée de nécessité, "Mathematics and the Idea of Necessity" (see Mary Lydon, Perpetuum Mobile: A Study of the Novels and Aesthetics of Michel Butor, University of Alberta, 1980, p. 156 n. 31).
  4. Une Conversation avec Michel Butor (in French) quotation:
    La littérature, c’est l’expérimentation sur le langage.
  5. Joshua Parker: On writing in second person, Published in Connotations Vol. 21.2–3 (2011/12)
  6. Linda Hutcheon (1985), A theory of parody: the teachings of twentieth-century art forms, p. 41
  7. Allan H. Pasco (1994), Allusion: a literary graft, p. 217
  8. Original quotation:
    La citation la plus littérale est déjà dans une certaine mesure une parodie. Le simple prélèvement la transforme, le choix dans lequel je l'insère, sa découpure (deux critiques peuvent citer le même passage en fixant ses bords différemment), les allégements que j'opère à l'intérieur, lesquels peuvent substituer une autre grammaire à l'originelle et naturellement, la façon dont je l'aborde, dont elle est prise dans mon commentaire
  9. Michel Butor (1981), Letters from the Antipodes, p. 162 quotation:
    A whole ideology of ownership and transmission is implied by the commercial promotion of books and a certain kind of discourse in newspapers, schools and universities, with its emphasis on greatness, uniqueness, and influence—often via quotation—as a one-way process. This ideology has received a battering for many years now at the hands of authors such as James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Jorge Luis Borges (Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote) and Butor himself.
  10. Manuel Casimiro, Books on Manuel Casimiro.
  11. Gerard Seree, Notes of biography, Gallery Michelle Champetier, 2020
  12. Audio file
  13. Miller, Elinor (1977-09-01). "Approaches to the Cataract: Butor's Niagara". Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature. 2 (1). doi:10.4148/2334-4415.1045. ISSN 2334-4415.
  14. The Fales Library of NYU's guide to Elinor Miller Paper Archived 2009-11-30 at the Wayback Machine
  15. "In Memoriam: Michel Butor". frenchculture.org. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  16. "Académie Mallarmé – Prix Mallarmé, membres du jury, laureats". www.academie-mallarme.fr. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  17. "Portail SACEM". 2008-05-01. Archived from the original on 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  18. Butor, Michel (1961). Degrees, a novel (in English and French). Internet Archive. New York, Simon and Schuster.
  19. Butor, Michel; Michel Butor Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (1969). Niagara, a novel. Internet Archive. Chicago, H. Regnery Co.
  20. Butor, Michel (1981). Letters from the Antipodes. Internet Archive. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-0659-5.
  21. THE SUNDAY POEM: MICHEL BUTOR TRANSLATED BY JEFFREY GROSS Gwarlingo, Sept. 15, 2013.
  22. Aldredge, Michelle. "Michel Butor's The Suburbs from Dawn to Daybreak". Gwarlingo. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
  23. Butor, Michel (1969). Histoire extraordinaire: essay on a dream of Baudelaire's;. Internet Archive. London, Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-61663-8.
  24. Butor, Michel (1969). Inventory; essays. Internet Archive. New York, Simon and Schuster.

Further reading





На других языках

[de] Michel Butor

Michel Marie François Butor (* 14. September 1926 in Mons-en-Barœul bei Lille; † 24. August 2016 in Contamine-sur-Arve[1]) war ein französischer Schriftsteller, Dichter, Kunstkritiker, Essayist und Übersetzer.
- [en] Michel Butor

[es] Michel Butor

Michel-Marie-François-Butor (Mons-en-Barœul, 14 de septiembre de 1926-Contamine-sur-Arve, 24 de agosto de 2016)[1] fue un escritor, poeta, ensayista, novelista, traductor, y profesor francés.

[fr] Michel Butor

Michel Butor est un poète, romancier, enseignant, essayiste, critique d'art et traducteur français né le 14 septembre 1926 à Mons-en-Barœul (Nord) et mort le 24 août 2016 à Contamine-sur-Arve (Haute-Savoie)[1].

[ru] Бютор, Мишель

Мишель Мари Франсуа Бютор (фр. Michel Butor; 14 сентября 1926, Мон-ан-Барёль, Нор — 24 августа 2016, Контамин-сюр-Арв, Верхняя Савойя[1]) — французский писатель.


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