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France: The writer and poet Christian Bobin died

The French author and poet Christian Bobin, who had become famous mainly for a bestseller, “Le Très-Bas”, died at the age of 71announced today Gallimard publishing house on his social media accounts.

The author, who he cared little for his reputation, he lived in a house in the woods where he devoted himself to writing. He regularly published short prose works. Some sold more than 100,000 copies, such as “Le Très-Bas” about St. Francis of Assisi in 1992. Others remained anecdotal.

This autumn, Beaupin published the novel “Le Muguet rouge” by Gallimard, and an anthology of “selected works” in the Quarto collection, “Les Différentes Régions du ciel”.

Frédéric Begbende, a French journalist and critic, stated in 1995: “Bobin is, by far, the most famous author of Cresot”of his birthplace in Burgundy, in the center-east Francewhich he never parted with.

“I was born in a cradle of steel”, the author, son of an industrial design professor, told AFP this fall, as Le Creuset had the Schneider steelworks in the 19th century. However, in his house there was no novel about industry, social realism, class struggle, instead there was a pointillist art directed towards nature and the sky.

“I preferred to go towards what seems to ignore the passage of time: flowers, love in its first timidity, anticipation, the beauty of a face, silence, long duration… All these things that modern life slowly began to take us away, to steal from us”, he emphasized according to the Athens News Agency.

Source: News Beast

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