Literature will keep us awake


Cécile Guilbert, essayist, novelist and literary critic, is author of work that is as diverse as it is original. Combining a unique freedom of tone and a sharp critical approach, she has no problem addressing the work of Saint-Simon, Guy Debord, Laurence Sterne and, most recently, Andy Warhol. Warhol Spirit (for which she was awarded the Prix Médicis de l'essai) is a rare object in which the style has as much to say as the polymorphous content. It is filled with citations, notes, reflections and dialogues with the work of the polymath artist. In her latest work, Sans entraves et sans temps morts, Cécile Guilbert uses over fifty different texts to develop a very clear vision of the art of writing which involves tasting, reading, seeing, feeling, listening, touching and loving.