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Gwenaëlle Aubry

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Gwenaëlle Aubry
Gwenaëlle Aubry (2018)
Gwenaëlle Aubry (2018)
Born2 April 1971 (1971-04-02) (age 53)
OccupationFrench novelist and philosopher
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrench
Education
  • Ecole Normale Supérieure
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
  • Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Notable works
  • Le Diable détacheur, Actes Sud, bourse Cino del Duca 1999
  • L'Isolée, Stock, 2002
  • L'Isolement, Stock, 2003
  • Notre vie s'use en transfigurations, Actes Sud, 2007
  • Personne, Mercure de France, 2009
  • Partages, Mercure de France, 2012
  • Lazare mon amour, L'Iconoclaste, 2016
  • Perséphone 2014, Mercure de France, 2016
  • La Folie Elisa, Mercure de France, 2018
Notable awardsPrix Femina for Personne

Gwenaëlle Aubry (born 2 April 1971[citation needed]) is a French novelist and philosopher.

Personal life and education

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After two years of preparatory classes at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, Aubry began her studies at the École Normale Supérieure in 1989 at the age of eighteen, earning an agrégation in Philosophy in 1992. She then received the Knox Scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she earned a Master of Philosophy. In 1999, she received a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne.[1]

She is married to the philosopher Quentin Meillassoux.[2]

Career

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She was an associate professor in ancient philosophy at the Université de Nancy II from 1999 to 2002. She now serves as a Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique [National Centre for Scientific Research][3] and an associate member of the Centre international d'étude de la philosophie française contemporaine [International Center for the Study of Contemporary French Philosophy] (ENS-Ulm).[4] She is also a member of the reading committee at the Théâtre national de la Colline.[5]

Her work

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She published her first novel, Le Diable détacheur, in 1999.

2002 saw the publication of L'Isolée, which was inspired by Florence Rey, and then revised and expanded in 2003 with the addition of the short narrative L'Isolement.

In 2007, after a residence at the Villa Medici,[6] she published Notre vie s'use en transfigurations, excerpts of which were staged by Sarah Oppenheim for the play "Donnez-moi donc un corps!", put on in 2017 by the Théâtre du Soleil.[7]

In 2009, Aubry received the Prix Femina for Personne, an alphabet-novel, which is a portrait of a melancholic "from twenty-six angles with nothing at the center".[8][9][10] The book was also short-listed for the Prix Médicis, the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française, the Prix Novembre, and the Prix de Flore. It has been translated into a dozen languages and was published in the United States as No One in Trista Selous's translation with a preface by Rick Moody.[11]

In 2012 Partages came out, a "book of hauntings", which mirrors, sometimes on alternating pages, the voices of two young girls, one Jewish, the other Palestinian, in Israel during the Second Intifada. It was long-listed for the Prix Goncourt and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française.

In 2015, she published "Lazare mon amour", a prismatic portrait of Sylvia Plath, in L'Une et L'Autre. She then adapted it into a play, which was published separately in 2016.

In 2016 the autobiographical novel Perséphone 2014 came out. Performed by the author and accompanied by the guitarist Sébastien Martel, the text was also staged by Anne Monfort on the occasion of the tenth Festival de Caves.[12] Partial translations into English have appeared from Benjamin Eldon Stevens (Arion, winter 2018, 25.3: 161–173)[13] and from Wendeline A. Hardenberg (Asymptote, April 2019).[14]

In 2018 her novel La Folie Elisa was published.[15] A staged version featuring Aubry, guitarist Sébastien Martel, and Judith Chemla was performed in November 2018.[16]

Aubry produced a radio play adaptation of Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil for France Culture and has written literary studies of Yves Bonnefoy, W. G. Sebald, and Georges Perec, as well as short works published in magazines and journals, particularly La Nouvelle Revue française. She is also the author of several books and a number of articles on ancient philosophy and its contemporary reception, as well as a translator from ancient Greek (Plotinus, Porphyrus, Proclus). In 2018 Genèse du Dieu souverain. Archéologie de la puissance II was published, the second volume following Dieu sans la puissance.[17][18] The author rejected the first mover of Aristotle could ever have been the first principle of all things because it is solely able to attract entities capable of its imitation, and declared to choose the potence of all beings (in ancient Greek: dunamis pantōn) described by Plotinus and Plato.[19]

Major works

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  • Le Diable détacheur, Actes Sud, 1999 (reissued by Mercure de France, 2012, winner of the Bourse Cino Del Duca)
  • L'Isolée, Stock, 2002
  • L'Isolement, Stock, 2003 (L'isolée/L'isolement, reissued by Mercure de France, 2010)
  • Plotin. Traité 53 (I, 1) Introduction, translation, commentary and notes, Cerf, Collection Les Ecrits de Plotin, 2004
  • Notre vie s'use en transfigurations, Actes Sud, 2007
  • Dieu sans la puissance: Dunamis et Energeia chez Aristote et chez Plotin (essai), Vrin, 2007
  • Le moi et l'intériorité, Vrin, 2008 (editor)
  • Personne, Mercure de France, 2009 (winner of the Prix Femina)
  • Partages, Mercure de France, 2012
  • Lazare mon amour, L'Iconoclaste, 2016
  • Perséphone 2014, Mercure de France 2016
  • Genèse du Dieu souverain. Archéologie de la puissance II, Vrin, 2018
  • La Folie Elisa, Mercure de France, 2018

References

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  1. ^ Aubry, Gwenaëlle (1998). De l'en-puissance à la toute-puissance aspects de la puissance d'Aristote à Leibniz (Thèse de doctorat thesis). 1970-2017, France: Université Paris-Sorbonne.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ Harman, Graham (12 January 2015). Quentin Meillassoux. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748693474.
  3. ^ "Centre Jean Pépin". umr8230.vjf.cnrs.fr. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  4. ^ "AUBRY Gwenaëlle - Centre Jean Pépin". umr8230.vjf.cnrs.fr. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  5. ^ "groupe des lecteurs | La Colline théâtre national". www.colline.fr. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Gwenaëlle Aubry". Villa Medici (in French). Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  7. ^ presse, Dossier de (19 January 2017). "Donnez-moi donc un corps ! Une création du Bal Rebondissant mise en scène de Sarah Oppenheim". Sceneweb (in French). Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  8. ^ Rousseau, Christine (9 November 2009). "Gwenaëlle Aubry obtient le Femina avec "Personne"". LE MONDE. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  9. ^ Marie-Laure Delorme (9 November 2009). "Gwenaëlle Aubry: Au nom du père". Le Journal du Dimanche. Archived from the original on 12 November 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  10. ^ Jean-Paul Enthoven (24 September 2009). "Gwenaëlle Aubry, puissante". Le Point. Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  11. ^ "Gwenaëlle Aubry in Conversation with Rick Moody". frenchculture.org. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  12. ^ "Festival de Caves". Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  13. ^ "Volume 25 | Arion". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  14. ^ "Persephone 2014 - Asymptote". www.asymptotejournal.com. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  15. ^ "Gwenaëlle Aubry, scènes de rupture". Libération.fr (in French). 16 November 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  16. ^ "Gwenaëlle Aubry – " La Folie Elisa "". www.maisondelapoesieparis.com (in French). Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  17. ^ Aubry, Gwenaelle. Genèse du Dieu souverain (in French). Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  18. ^ "Genesis of the Violent God". CornellCast. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  19. ^ Lloyd P. Gerson (2020). "Gwenaëlle Aubry, Genèse du Dieu souverain. Archéologie de la puissance II". Philosophie Antique (20): 303–305. doi:10.4000/philosant.2024. ISSN 2648-2789. OCLC 8861741761. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
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