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William Marx

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William Marx

William Marx (born 1966 in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon) is a French writer and researcher into literature. He is a researcher at the Collège de France,[1] where he is professor of Comparative Literature.[2] In 2010 he received the Montyon Prize of the Académie française.[3] In 2022 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.[4]

Publications

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  • La Haine de la littérature. Paris: Éditions de Minuit. 2015. ISBN 9782707329172.
  • The Hatred of Literature. Translated by Elliott, Nicholas. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2018. ISBN 9780674976122.
  • The Tomb of Oedipus: Why Greek Tragedies Were not Tragic. Translated by Elliott, Nicholas. London-New York: Verso Books. 2022. ISBN 9781788736138.

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