Pascal Bruckner

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December 15, 1948 in Paris, France

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After studies at the university Paris I and Paris VII, and then at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, he became maître de conférences at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, and collaborator at the Nouvel Observateur.

Pascal Bruckner began writing in the vein of the so-called "nouveaux philosophes" and counts among their best known French proponents. He published Parias (Parias), Lunes de Fiel (adapted to film by Roman Polanski) and Les voleurs de beauté (The beauty stealers) (Prix Renaudot in 1997). Among essays, La tentation de l'innocence (Temptation of innocence) (Prix Médicis in 1995) and, famously, Le Sanglot de l'Homme blanc (The Tears of the White Man), an attack on narcissistic and destructive policies intended to benefit t...more

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Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace'
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The philosopher Pascal Bruckner is in many ways the model of a modern French intellectual. He lives in a book-filled Parisian apartment. ...

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Books by Pascal Bruckner

Average rating: 3.65 · 1,030 ratings · 56 reviews · 44 distinct works

	Bitter Moon 3.77 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1981 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Les Voleurs de beauté 3.61 avg rating — 196 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Divine Child: A Novel of Prenatal Rebellion 3.83 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Luni de fiere 3.61 avg rating — 46 ratings	My rating:
	The Temptation of Innocence: Living in the Age of Entitlement 3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	My rating:
	L'amour Du Prochain 3.07 avg rating — 46 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Tyranny of Guilt by Pascal Bruckner, Steven Rendall (Translator) 3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	L'Euphorie perpétuelle: Essai sur le devoir de bonheur 3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Le Palais Des Claques: Roman 3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Les Ogres Anonymes 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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“Ma leg mai ales de fiintele care n-au nevoie de mine si pe care deodata le inlantui prin cea mai puternica legatura. Sunt gata sa dau totul cui nu cere nimic, dar nu vreau sa cedez nimic cui asteapta totul de la celalalt.”
― Pascal Bruckner

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“Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.”
― Pascal Bruckner

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“By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life.”
― Pascal Bruckner

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