Antoine Compagnon

Antoine Compagnon has been a professor at the Collège de France, chair of Modern and Contemporary French Literature, and a professor at Columbia University in New York. He has published some fifteen books on Montaigne, Baudelaire, Proust, literary theory and the history of criticism, as well as several more personal accounts. Among his latest books, Les Chiffonniers de Paris (Gallimard, 2017).