The news of Christian Bobin ’s death on 23 November 2022, reached the world with the same quietude he had cultivated his entire life. At 71, the author of The Very Lowly ( Le Très-Bas ) and The Ruins of Heaven left behind a legacy not of grand spectacles, but of the "goodness that astounds".
In the wake of his death, an exhibition titled Eulogy of Nothing was opened as a tribute—a fitting name for a writer who taught the world that in the "nothing," the subtle, and the fragile, one finds the absolute everything. The news of Christian Bobin ’s death on
Christian Bobin: "It is goodness that astounds me in this life " the subtle