Philippe Sollers citations

“Nombres est écrit avant mai 1968, coïncidence improbable mais profonde.”

Philippe Sollers

“an interview for The Journal of Advanced Rhetoric (2018)”

Help us translate this quote

Philippe Sollers

Nombres est écrit avant mai 1968, coïncidence improbable mais profonde.

“The world belongs to women.
In other words, to death.
But everyone lies about it.”

Help us translate this quote

Philippe Sollers

Women (1990), tr. of Femmes (1983)

“Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration”

Help us translate this quote

Philippe Sollers livre Watteau in Venice

which are much the same thing
Watteau in Venice (1994), tr. by Alberto Manguel of La Fête à Venise (1991)