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Sudden death of French gadfly

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Sudden death of French gadfly

The erudite critic and provocateur Benoît Duteurtre, presenter of Astonish Me, Benoit on France Musique died at his rural holiday home of a heart attack this week, aged 64.

An early groupie of Boulez, Stockhausen and Ligeti, he wrote an infleuntial 1995 essay, Requiem pour une avant-garde, and successfully sued Le Monde for calling him a revisionist. The following year he wrote a groundbreaking gay novel, Gaieté parisienne.. It was followed by Les malentendus, a novel about illegal immigants in France.

photo: Facebook/Duteurtre.com

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