Gérard Genette

1930 - 2018

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: structural anthropology, narratology

country of citizenship: France

languages spoken, written or signed: French

educated at: École Normale Supérieure, Faculty of Arts of Paris, Lycée Lakanal

occupation: literary critic, literary theorist, university teacher, literary historian, opinion journalist

award received: Officer of Arts and Letters

student of: Jean-Toussaint Desanti

Gérard Genette (7 June 1930 – 11 May 2018) was a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage. Source: Wikipedia (en)