Pierre Alféri
Pierre Alferi | |
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| Born | Pierre Jérôme Derrida 10 April 1963 Paris, France |
| Died | 16 August 2023 (aged 60) Paris, France |
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| Alma mater | École normale supérieure |
| Parents | Jacques Derrida Marguerite Aucouturier |
Pierre Alferi (French: [pjɛʁ alfeʁi]; 10 April 1963 – 16 August 2023) was a French novelist, poet, and essayist. Alferi was the son of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier.
Career
[edit]Alferi studied at the École Normale Supérieure, rue d'Ulm and completed his agrégation.[1] After his dissertation on William of Ockham, supervised by Louis Marin, Alferi began to primarily write poetry.[2] Alferi was also a literary translator who has translated works by John Donne, Giorgio Agamben and Meyer Schapiro from English and Russian into French.[3] He had also written songs for several performing artists including Jeanne Balibar. Between 1991 and 1992, Alferi was writer-in-residence at the Fondation Royaumont, and at the French Academy in Rome between 1987 and 1988.[citation needed]
Alferi was co-founder (with Suzanne Doppelt), of the literary journal Détail, and La Revue de Littérature Générale (with Olivier Cadiot). Alferi taught at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris,[4] 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. [5] Alferi was also a translator of poetry and philosophy including the work of Agamben. [6]
Personal life and death
[edit]Pierre Alferi was born in Paris on 10 April 1963 to Jacques Derrida, philosopher and inventor of deconstruction and Marguerite Derrida, a psychoanalyst.[7][8][9] He was of Algerian-Jewish descent through his father, and Czech descent through his mother.[10] He tried to remain discreet about his ancestry, namely his famous philosopher father Derrida, by adopting his maternal grandmother's name for public life.[1]
Alferi suffered from cancer and died in Paris on 16 August 2023, at the age of 60.[11] [12]
Publications
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ a b "Pierre Alferi, a singular writer, has died". Le Monde.fr. 2023-08-18. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
- ^ 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}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Death of Pierre Alferi". Beaux-arts de Paris. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
- ^ Breeden, Aurelien (2020-04-06). "Marguerite Derrida, French Psychoanalyst and Translator, Dies at 87". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
- ^ "Pierre Alferi". Poetry International. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ "Pierre Derrida". Geneanet. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
- ^ "Marguerite Derrida, French Psychoanalyst and Translator, Dies at 87 (Published 2020)". The New York Times. 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
[edit]- Pierre Alferi at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
- Pierre Alferi at The European Graduate School
- Hommage à Pierre Alferi (1963-2023) : « Ma grande affaire est le maintien ou le retour de la vie dans ce qui s’arrête »
- Pierre Alferi. University of California, Berkeley. 2009 Regents' Lecturer.
- Hommage à Pierre Alferi, Radio France.
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- 1963 births
- 2023 deaths
- Writers from Paris
- 20th-century French poets
- French art critics
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- Academic staff of European Graduate School
- 21st-century French poets
- 21st-century French male writers
- 20th-century French translators
- 21st-century translators
- French male poets
- 20th-century French male writers
- French male non-fiction writers
- 20th-century French Jews
- Jewish poets
- French people of Algerian-Jewish descent
- French people of Czech descent