Gilles Tordjman

Gilles Tordjman (born 31 August 1962 in Paris ) is a French musicologist, journalist and literary critic.

After graduating with a master's degree in philosophy in 1984, he wrote for Le Matin de Paris and L'Express before joining Les Inrockuptibles in 1992 where he was an editorial writer for five years.

In April 1997, Gilles Tordjman left Les Inrockuptibles following a polemic in the editorial office about Michel Bounan's book, L'Art de Céline et son temps which he had defended.

He then joined L'Événement du jeudi.

Subsequently, Gilles Tordjman also wrote in Technikart, Jazzman, Jazz Magazine, Épok, Elle, Playboy, Vibrations, Mouvement, and on artnet.fr.'''

Gilles Tordjman wrote books devoted to Duke Ellington and Leonard Cohen as well as numerous articles about jazz musicians, notably Django Reinhardt, Chet Baker, Eric Dolphy and Pascal Comelade.

He is also a literary critic, particularly interested in Emmanuel Bove, Henri Calet, Marius Jacob, Jacques Yonnet, Guy Debord and also Fernando Pessoa, Sun Tzu and Baltasar Gracián to whom Gilles Tordjman devoted long articles or postfaces when their works were reissued.

In 2012, he published an article against Bob Dylan in the special issue of Télérama devoted to the American singer.

"The truth changes according to the use that an epoch makes of it. This period no longer needs a lie as a mode of government, as it no longer needs censorship as a mode of control: it is by showing everything that it perpetuates its secrets, and it is by encouraging to say everything that it ensures the mastery of every word."