Agent secret

The last novel of the great author. A very French book and at the same time cosmopolitan. An ode to life and its refinements
intellectual pleasures. In the fate and work of Philip Sollers - a writer, editor, critic, individualist, pa-
a paradoxical and amazing guide - there is magic. Magic born from his passion for literature, poetry, nature and
music, to romantic meetings, to the art of mystery and intimacy.
The list of figures who, as if in a black-and-white film, appear like flashes and disappear again in the darkness is impressive: Lacan, Se
Lin, Barthes, Breton, Bataille, Malraux, Rimbaud, Foucault, Aragon - friends, opposites, antagonisms. Someone just drinks coffee with the author,
someone opposes, someone inspires, and even more – affects his fate and changes it, and affects this mutual. And, of course, women
difficult relationship with them. Beloved wife Yulia Kristeva, muse and face in polemics; Dominique Rolen - "fifty years of
of sweet love" and daily correspondence...
The novel is written in a "stream of consciousness" style, and this allows the author to touch on many topics, touch on different areas
history, literature, psychology, philosophy. Sollers does not impose his own opinion, he leads the reader, like a small child, through
events of his life, through the accumulation of thoughts, impressions and theory, offers how he remembers all this in different years, what exactly and how
brought up what he was wrong about and changed his mind. "Secret agent", which seems to keep an eye on life from a distance...