Vincent Delecroix

Vincent Delecroix (born 1969 in Paris) is a French philosopher and writer. A graduate from the École normale supérieure, and agrégé of philosophy, a specialist of Søren Kierkegaard on whom he did his doctoral thesis, he has taught philosophy of religion at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes as a lecturer. Also a novelist, he received the Prix Valery Larbaud in 2007 for Ce qui est perdu (published in 2006) and the Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française after he published Tombeau d'Achille (in 2008). His literary and philosophical work is attentive to existential acts and experiences, such as love, singing and the sacred.

La chaussure sur le toit
The story La chaussure sur le toit consists of ten short stories on the same theme: a shoe placed on the roof of the building opposite, in Paris. Each chapter is equivalent to a story with a well-defined character and a well-founded character: a dreamy child, a burglar in love, three crazy thugs, an undocumented immigrant, a television presenter, a melancholic dog, a homosexual firefighter, an eccentric lady, a contemporary artist, an angel in pants.

Works

 * 2003: Retour à Bruxelles, Actes Sud (series "Un endroit où aller")
 * 2004: À la porte, Éditions Gallimard (series "Blanche")
 * 2004: La Preuve de l'existence de Dieu, Actes Sud ("Un endroit où aller")
 * 2005: Post-scriptum aux Miettes philosophiques. Kierkegaard, Ellipses (Philo-textes)
 * 2006: Singulière philosophie. Essai sur Kierkegaard, Félin (series "les marches du temps")
 * 2006: Ce qui est perdu, Gallimard ("Blanche"), Prix Valery Larbaud
 * 2007: La chaussure sur le toit, Gallimard ("Blanche")
 * 2008: Tombeau d'Achille, Gallimard ("L'un et l'autre"), Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française
 * 2012: Petit éloge de l'ironie, Gallimard
 * 2012: Chanter. Reprendre la parole, Flammarion (series "Sens propre")
 * 2015: Ce n'est point ici le pays de la vérité, Félin ("les marches du temps")

Participation to collective works

 * 2004: La Bible. Héros et légendes de l'Ancien Testament, Paris, Larousse (Junior)
 * 2010: Lexique nomade, Paris, Christian Bourgois
 * 2011: Cartographie de l'Utopie : l'œuvre indisciplinée de Michael Löwy
 * 2012: Noël, quel bonheur ! Treize nouvelles affreusement croustillantes, Paris, Armand Colin
 * 2012: Petite bibliothèque du chanteur, Paris, Flammarion, series "Champs Classiques, presented by V. Delecroix.
 * Décapage (revue), chronique régulière.

Translations and prefaces

 * 2006: Søren Kierkegaard, Exercice en christianisme, Paris, Félin, series "Les marches du temps", transl. from Danish.
 * 2009: Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parme, Paris, Flammarion, series "GF", with an interview by V. Delecroix: Pourquoi aimez-vous La Chartreuse de Parme ?
 * 2012: Sigmund Freud, Religion, Paris, Gallimard, series "Connaissance de l'inconscient", preface by V. Delecroix.