The personal library and art collection of Jean-Pierre Faye, a French philosopher, novelist, poet, playwright, historian, and theorist of language, will be sold in Brussels on September 25 and 26, 2026. Faye, who died last March at the age of 100, left behind a body of work that spans literature, philosophy, and political history. The sale, organized by Les Ventes Damien Voglaire, will include books dedicated by notable figures such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Derrida, as well as works by Gérard Fromanger, Matta, and Samuel Ringer. The expertise for the sale has been entrusted to Guillaume Zorgbibe from the bookstore L’Imaginaire. Among the items in the sale catalog is a copy of La Terre et les Rêveries du repos by Gaston Bachelard, published in 1948, with a dedication from Bachelard referring to his "year of diploma." The book is estimated to be worth between 100 and 200 euros. Faye received the Renaudot prize in 1964 for his novel L’Écluse. His philosophical works, including Théorie du récit and Langages totalitaires, published in 1972, analyze how language and political narratives contribute to shaping historical representations. Books by Gilles Deleuze, such as Dialogues with Claire Parnet, Francis Bacon. Logique de la sensation, and Cinéma 1. L’image-mouvement, will be offered, with some copies containing annotations and dedications from Faye. An original edition of service de presse des Mots et les Choses by Michel Foucault, published in 1966, contains annotations by Faye and a dedication from Foucault "as a testimony of friendship," with an estimate of 100 to 200 euros. Signed copies of Moi, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother..., Surveiller et Punir, and the first volume of Histoire de la sexualité will also be included in the sale. Jean-Pierre Faye had a complex relationship with Jacques Derrida. The two men had worked together on the creation of the Collège international de philosophie, but Faye accused Derrida of taking over the direction and shifting the orientation of the institution. Disagreements also concerned the functioning of the new institution and the place given to "deconstruction." Faye eventually left the Collège in 1985. He accused Derrida of insufficiently critical debt to Heidegger, especially around the concept of "deconstruction." The dispute erupted publicly again in 2013 with Faye's book Lettre sur Derrida. Combats au-dessus du vide, in which he accused Derrida of having made the Collège a place dominated by deconstruction and the Heideggerian heritage. This reading was strongly contested by several philosophers close to the Collège, who saw it as the product of an old institutional grudge. A first edition of La Voix et le Phénomène, abundantly underlined and annotated by Faye, bears a dedication from Derrida "as a sign of friendship." The library includes works by Roland Barthes, with dedications in Essais critiques, Critique et Vérité, and L’Empire des signes. Three works by Félix Guattari are also present, including L’Inconscient machinique, accompanied by a dedication referring to "indelible traces of friendship." Two pieces by Georges Perec will also attract the attention of bibliophiles. The catalog offers one of the approximately hundred copies of Versions latines, made in 1972 on pink paper and signed by Perec, estimated 200 to 300 euros. Same estimate for an original edition of Revenentes, accompanied by a dedication to Jean-Pierre Faye. The sale is not limited to books. One of its major pieces is a large oil on canvas by Gérard Fromanger, entitled Change and dated September 1976. Over two meters in height, the artist brings together Jean-Pierre and Marie-Odile Faye with several members of the movement and the magazine Change. The work, directly received from Fromanger by Faye, is estimated between 20,000 and 30,000 euros. Founded at the end of the 1960s around Faye, Jacques Roubaud, Maurice Roche, and other writers, Change was both a magazine and a transdisciplinary laboratory, where poetry, linguistics, politics, philosophy, and plastic arts crossed. The Jean-Pierre Faye collection preserved at the Imec testifies to this adventure today. The collection also includes works by Matta, Gérard Titus-Carmel, Vladimir Veličković, Jacques Monory, and Samuel Ringer. Among the artist books are notably Désert fleuve respirés, associating Faye and Arman, or several realizations with the painter Anne Slacik. A few days after the sale, the material library will give way to archives and ideas. From September 30 to October 2, 2026, the University of Rouen Normandie, the Imec, and the International College of Philosophy will organize the international symposium Le langage, la narration, l’histoire: around Jean-Pierre Faye. The symposium will cover topics such as Faye's thoughts on the French Revolution, his exchanges with Louis Althusser, his relations with the 1968 years, or his work around the Prague avant-garde. The proximity with the soon-to-be-dispersed books is sometimes direct. The sociologist Michel Kokoreff will intervene on "Gilles Deleuze and Jean-Pierre Faye, a generation," while Sophie Ireland will study the role of Change in the circulation of the Prague avant-garde. On Friday, October 2, the symposium will move to the Abbaye d'Ardenne, headquarters of the Imec, in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe. Clothilde Roullier will propose a "mapping of a plural work" from the archives; Michèle Cohen-Halimi will return to narration and its effects, while Frédéric Forte will put together Faye's Couleurs pliées and the work of Jacques Roubaud. Poetry readings are also announced. The three days can be followed remotely. At the heart of Jean-Pierre Faye's thought is a simple conviction: words do not merely describe history, they contribute to producing it. He was interested in the shifts in vocabulary, the narratives and formulas by which a society gradually makes certain political representations thinkable - then acceptable. His work on the discourses of fascism and National Socialism sought to understand how words circulate from one camp to another, change meaning, and end up preparing historical shifts. His two major books of 1972, Théorie du récit and especially Langages totalitaires, constitute the core of this research.