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French novelist, poet, and essayist (1963–2023)
Pierre Alféri (French:
[pjɛʁ alfeʁi] ; 10 April 1963 – 16 August 2023) was a French novelist, poet, and essayist. Alféri was the son of the French philosopher
Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst
Marguerite Aucouturier .
Career
After his dissertation on
William of Ockham , Alféri began to primarily write poetry.
[1] Alféri was also a literary translator who has translated works by
John Donne ,
Giorgio Agamben and
Meyer Schapiro from English and Russian into French.
[2] He had also written songs for several performing artists including
Jeanne Balibar . Between 1991 and 1992, Alféri was writer-in-residence at the Fondation Royaumont, and at the
French Academy in Rome between 1987 and 1988.[
citation needed ]
Alféri was co-founder (with
Suzanne Doppelt ), of the literary journal Détail , and La Revue de Littérature Générale (with
Olivier Cadiot ). Alféri taught at the
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris,
[3] the
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, and the
European Graduate School . His work is considered singular and unclassifiable as it includes poetry, drawing, music, novel and philosophy.
[4] Alféri was also a translator of poetry and philosophy including the work of
Agamben .
[5]
Personal life and death
Pierre Alféri was born in Paris on 10 April 1963.
[6]
[7] He was of
Algerian-Jewish descent through his father, and
Czech descent through his mother.
[8]
Alféri suffered from cancer and died in Paris on 16 August 2023, at the age of 60.
[9]
[10]
Publications
Poetry
Les Allures naturelles POL, Paris, 1991
ISBN
2-86744-218-4
Le Chemin familier du poisson combatif , POL, Paris, 1992
ISBN
2-86744-308-3
Kub Or , POL, Paris, 1994
ISBN
2-86744-411-X
Sentimentale journée , POL, Paris, 1997
ISBN
2-86744-557-4
Personal Pong (avec Jacques Julien), Villa Saint-Clair, Sète, 1997
Handicap (avec Jacques Julien), Rroz, 2000
petit, petit , Rup et rud, 2001
La Voie des airs ,
POL , Paris, 2004
ISBN
2-86744-993-6
OXO (photos by Suzanne Doppelt, trans. by Cole Swensen), Burning Deck, Providence, 2004
ISBN
1-886224-66-8
Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry (translated by Kate Lermitte Campbell), 2016.
Enitharmon Press
Novels
Fmn , POL, Paris, 1994
ISBN
2-86744-440-3
Le Cinéma des familles , POL, Paris, 1999
ISBN
2-86744-713-5
Les Jumelles , POL, Paris, 2009
ISBN
978-2-84682-309-8
Après vous , POL, Paris, 2010
ISBN
978-2-8180-0009-0
Essays
Guillaume d'Ockham le singulier ,
Minuit , coll. « Philosophie », Paris, 1989
ISBN
2-7073-1200-2
Chercher une phrase ,
Christian Bourgois , coll. « Détroits », Paris, 1991
ISBN
2-267-01025-9
Des enfants et des monstres , POL, Paris, 2004
ISBN
2-86744-992-8
Art
Ca Commence à Séoul , DVD video. Pierre Alféri and Jacques Julien, Le Label Dernière Bande and Éditions P.O.L. 2007
L'inconnu , Pierre Alféri and Jacques Julien, le Quartier - Centre d'art contemporain de Quimper. 2004
References
^ Agnès Disson and Roxanne Lapidus.
"Pierre Alferi: Compressing and Disconnecting" SubStance . Volume 39, Number 3, 2010 (Issue 123). E-
ISSN
1527-2095 Print
ISSN
0049-2426
^
"Bilingual reading by Pierre Alferi" .
Buffalo , United States: College of Arts and Sciences.
University at Buffalo . The State University of New York. Retrieved 17 December 2010 .
^
"Profil Pierre Alferi" . École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. Retrieved 23 April 2016 .
^ Charron, Jeff Barda, Philippe (2023-08-27).
"Une acuité folle : Pierre Alferi (1963-2023) - AOC media" . AOC media - Analyse Opinion Critique (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-25 . {{
cite web }}
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link )
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"Death of Pierre Alferi" . Beaux-arts de Paris . Retrieved 2024-04-25 .
^
"Pierre Alferi" . Poetry International . Retrieved 18 August 2023 .
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"Pierre Derrida" . Geneanet . Retrieved 18 August 2023 .
^
"Marguerite Derrida, French Psychoanalyst and Translator, Dies at 87 (Published 2020)" . April 6, 2020.
^
La mort de Pierre Alferi, écrivain singulier
Le Monde (in French)
^ Loret, Eric.
"Pierre Alferi, mort d'un auteur archipel" . Libération (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-25 .
External links
International National Academics Artists Other