"Pascal Lain\u00E9 (born May 10, 1942 in Anet, Eure-et-Loir) is a French academic, novelist, and writer.Awarded both the Prix M\u00E9dicis (1971 for l'Irr\u00E9volution) and the Goncourt (1974 for La Dentelli\u00E8re), Pascal Lain\u00E9 has published over 20 novels and has written for television, theater, and film.While recovering from childhood illnesses, Lain\u00E9 discovered novelists Alexandre Dumas, p\u00E8re and Victor Hugo, aspiring to their kind of voluminous writing, but in school he focused on philosophy and history, becoming an avid student of Immanuel Kant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Martin Heidegger. "@en .