Journalist, literary critic, biographer, essayist, Pierre LePape died Saturday at the age of 80 at Saint-Antoine de Paris Hospital.
Le Monde with AFP
“He died in the early hours of this Saturday, December 18, at Saint-Antoine de Paris Hospital,” report the editions of the threshold in a statement. “Journalist, literary critic, biographer, Pierre Lepape was also a trialist of rare culture,” they recall.
“Man committed, especially with the Algerian FLN, he has long held the literary soapon in [the columns of the” world “, never ceasing to cross and fertilize his passion for literature with the breath of history” , greets the threshold.
Born in 1941 in rugles (Eure), passing his youth in Le Havre, he had abandoned his studies of letters to embark on journalism, first in Paris-Normandy, before leaving for Telerama, the literary news and then Le Monde.
His work published has two tests welcomed for their finesse, the country of literature (2003), fresco on the place of literature in the history of France, and a history of love novels (2011), so That writers’ biographies: Charles Sorel, Voltaire, Denis Diderot and André Gide. The threshold also published black and gold in 2015, “an unexpected cozy novel with its wife, Michèle gas”, contemporary rewriting of a stendhal classic, red and black.