Guillaume Metayer
Guillaume Métayer works as a Chargé de Recherche at the Centre d’Étude de la Langue et des Littératures françaises (Université Paris-Sorbonne-CNRS). His essays and articles in the history of ideas focus on the reception of French enlightenment in nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ France and Central Europe. His main books (Nietzsche et Voltaire. De la liberté de l’esprit et de la civilisation, Flammarion, 2011; Anatole France et le nationalisme littéraire, scepticisme et tradition, Le Félin, 2011) have received several prizes. He is also currently working on the history of freedom in Central Europe (Budapest 1956. La révolution vue par les écrivains hongrois, Le Félin, 2016).