Sollers

Lucky Pierre j-harsin at nwu.edu
Wed Feb 24 11:55:04 PST 1999



>From a friend on Sollers:
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The Bourdieu piece is rather petty and polemically-motivated; it appeared at least five years ago. Sollers and others replied to it; I think the responses are all in an issue of L'Infini somewheres.

Perry Anderson's take on Sollers' is a cliched one that is common among left-theory folks who haven't really read him. Sollers is a provocateur by trade, so he generates these sorts of attacks and thrives on them. They don't really get at what he's about, however. Both Anderson and Bourdieu take a very condescending perspective on Sollers, speaking as master-thinkers who resent the insolence of a literary interloper who dares to not defer to their valid knowledge, etc...

It's an old game, sigh... and an endless one. Sollers is interesting if only for the way he outrages righteous thinkers <g>.

jayson perry harsin Dept. of Communication Studies Northwestern University j-harsin at nwu.edu (773)508-4062



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