Pierre Alféri
Pierre Alféri (French: [pjɛʁ alfeʁi]; born 1963) is a French novelist, poet, and essayist. Alféri is the son of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier.
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Born | 1963 Paris, France |
Occupation | Poet, essayist, novelist, academic |
Biography
After his dissertation on William of Ockham, Alféri began to primarily write poetry.[1] Alféri is also a literary translator who has translated works by John Donne, Giorgio Agamben and Meyer Schapiro from English and Russian into French.[2] He has 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.
Alféri is co-founder (with Suzanne Doppelt), of the literary journal Détail, and La Revue de Littérature Générale (with Olivier Cadiot). Alféri teaches 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.
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
- 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.
External links
- Pierre Alferi at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
- Pierre Alferi. University of California, Berkeley. 2009 Regents' Lecturer.