Philippe Vilain, à la recherche de l’amour perdu…
Abstract
The narrator of Philippe Vilain's novels is always either a passive loser of love, dispossessed of the being he loved, or an active loser: he ruins the romantic relationship that has been built. But what does he lose? Does he only lose the object of his love? Is he losing himself? Is it about losing a love to better find love again? to better find oneself? Or is it about finding something else and what? Towards what truth does this research lead, this quest, infinitely repeated, this attempt to exhaust this topos. Lost loves, like lost time, when they are rediscovered in the literary narrative, ultimately restore love to all its absoluteness, all its power and all its grandeur: love lost and found again is the foundation of Creation and Literature according to Philippe Vilain.
