Marc Soriano (7 July 1918, in

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– 18 December 1994) was a 20th-century French philosopher. After the death of his father, his family went to Italy. He stayed in

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between 1921 and 1927, then went to live in Paris. A pupil at

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in Paris, he was the only khâgneux received at the

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in 1939, but his name is not on the directories. Mobilized in 1939, wounded in April 1940, he joined the Résistance in 1942. He was received in the first place at the December special session of the Aggregation of Philosophy Competition of 1945. For some time he followed the seminars of at the Sorbonne, and then worked in Geneva with

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. He specialized in tales, especially those of

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. Suffering from

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since 1978, which had caused him to lose the use of speech, he died on 18 December 1994. A laureate of the

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in 1968 for his study ''les Contes de Perrault, culture savante et tradition populaire'', the

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also bestowed him it
Prix d'Académie
in 1991 for all his work. He was violinist Denise Soriano-Boucherit's brother.

Works

*1968: ''Les Contes de Perrault, culture savante et traditions populaires'', Gallimard, series "La Bibliothèque des idées" *1978: ''Portrait de l'artiste jeune, suivi des quatre premiers textes publiés de Jules Verne''. Postface by

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. Gallimard *1981: ''La Semaine de la comète. Rapport secret sur l'enfance et la jeunesse au XIXe'',

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*1975: ''Guide de la littérature pour la jeunesse'', Flammarion *1993: ''Les Secrets du violon. Souvenirs de Jules Boucherit (1877–1962)'', Paris, Editions des Cendres

References

External links

Marc Soriano
on Encyclopedia Universalis
''Mort de Marc Soriano, écrivain et psychanalyste''
on ''

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'' (20 December 1994)
Marc Sorian
on Contes de Fée
Marc Soriano
on the site of the Académie française {{DEFAULTSORT:Soriano, Marc 20th-century French philosophers 1918 births Lycée Condorcet alumni 20th-century French writers École Normale Supérieure alumni French Resistance members 1994 deaths Deaths from myasthenia gravis Egyptian expatriates in Italy Egyptian emigrants to France