Pierre Alféri

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.

Pierre Alféri
BornPierre Jérôme Derrida
(1963-04-10)10 April 1963
Paris, France
Died16 August 2023(2023-08-16) (aged 60)
Paris, France
Occupation
  • Poet
  • essayist
  • novelist
  • academic
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure
ParentsJacques Derrida
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.

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.

Personal life and death

Pierre Alféri was born in Paris on 10 April 1963.[4][5] He was of Algerian-Jewish descent through his father, and Czech descent through his mother.[6]

Alféri died in Paris on 16 August 2023, at the age of 60.[7]

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
  1. 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
  2. "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.
  3. "Profil Pierre Alferi". École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  4. "Pierre Alferi". Poetry International. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  5. "Pierre Derrida". Geneanet. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  6. "Marguerite Derrida, French Psychoanalyst and Translator, Dies at 87 (Published 2020)". April 6, 2020.
  7. La mort de Pierre Alferi, écrivain singulier Le Monde (in French)
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