William Marx (born 1966 in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon) is a French writer and researcher into literature. He is a researcher at the Collège de France,^[1] where he is professor of Comparative Literature.^[2] In 2010 he received the Montyon Prize of the Académie française.^[3] In 2022 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.^[4]

Publications

• La Haine de la littérature. Paris: Éditions de Minuit. 2015. ISBN 9782707329172.
• The Hatred of Literature. Translated by Elliott, Nicholas. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2018. ISBN 9780674976122.
• The Tomb of Oedipus: Why Greek Tragedies Were not Tragic. Translated by Elliott, Nicholas. London-New York: Verso Books. 2022. ISBN 9781788736138.