Literature as an innovation gas pedal

Antoine Compagnon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary French Literature at the Collège de France since 2006, and Professor at Columbia University (New York). He is a historian of French literature, novelist and critic, author of Le Démon de la théorie (Seuil, 1998), Les Antimodernes, de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes (Gallimard, 2005), La Classe de rhéto (Gallimard, 2012), Baudelaire l'irréductible (Flammarion, 2014), and Les Chiffonniers de Paris (Gallimard, 2017).