Raphaël Aubert


Raphaël Aubert is a Swiss writer and essayist.

Biography

Early life and education

Raphaël Aubert was brought up in a family of artists. He studied in the Faculty of Arts and Theology at University of Lausanne and in Paris.

Career

His first book Proche de l’argile ou la Remontée, a collection of poems, was published in 1975. He has since then published ten books including short stories and some novels, especially La bataille de San Romano, the action of which starts at the Louvre and questions the mysteries of Paolo Uccello's famous painting, and La Terrasse des éléphants, novel of the encounter and destiny during the last years of the Vietnam's war.
As a journalist for Radio Télévision Suisse, he has travelled to Russia and various eastern countries, the Near East, the United States and Asia.
His essays include studies of André Malraux and Salman Rushdie, the latter titled L’affaire Rushdie, which garnered interest as it was the first study in French on the Indo-British author. In Le Paradoxe Balthus, he develops an iconoclastic argument based on Balthus’s famously controversial painting, La Leçon de guitare.
Aubert contributes to various reviews in Switzerland and in France, among which art press and Le Passe Muraille. He is one of the Swiss correspondents of the "Research and Information Circle André Malraux" and he contributed to the André Malraux Dictionary.

Selected works