[2] Rosset taught French at the Université de Montréal in Quebec, Canada for two years.
[1] The bulk of his work consists in some 30 short books, all of them brief studies or essays on various topics.
Most popular is probably Le réel et son double, that deals in an original manner with the inevitably illusionistic character of representations.
Arthur Schopenhauer, on whom Rosset has published a few studies, remains a constant reference throughout his works.
The fight with depression introduced a more personal strain in the later writings of Clément Rosset.