Angelo Rinaldi Biography
Angelo Rinaldi (Bastia, 17 June 1940) is a French writer and literary critic of Corsican origin. Son of Pierfrancesco Rinaldi and Antonietta Pietri, he grew up in Corsica before becoming a journalist. He worked at the Nice-Matin and the Paris-Jour as a reporter and court reporter before establishing himself as an author of novels and as a literary critic with a particularly sharp pen, arousing both admiration and aversion. Angelo Rinaldi subsequently worked at L'Express, Le Point and Le Nouvel Observateur before becoming literary director of Le Figaro and responsible for the Figaro littéraire, a position he held until his retirement in 2005. Angelo Rinaldi, as a literary critic, pays tribute to his admiration for writers (defined as "rare"), whom he made rediscover to a wider audience: François Augieras, Marguerite Audoux, Olivier Larronde, Fritz Zorn, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Rhys, Italo Svevo. In the collection Service de presse (1999), recurring themes appear, in particular his love for poetry, American noir novels, the purity of the French language and the ferocity towards "fashionable" authors: (Marguerite Duras, Albert Cohen, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Philippe Sollers, Julia Kristeva, Philippe Djian, Michel Houellebecq, Christine Angot). On the pages of L'Express, he manifests his aversion to Georges Simenon, with the title: «Simenon: le zéro de la pensée» in 1979, in 1992 and in 2012.
