Pierre Alféri

Pierre Alferi
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

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

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

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

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
Essays
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. ^ a b "Pierre Alferi, a singular writer, has died". Le Monde.fr. 2023-08-18. Retrieved 2024-06-29.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Profil Pierre Alferi". École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  5. ^ 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)
  6. ^ "Death of Pierre Alferi". Beaux-arts de Paris. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Pierre Alferi". Poetry International. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  9. ^ "Pierre Derrida". Geneanet. Retrieved 18 August 2023.
  10. ^ "Marguerite Derrida, French Psychoanalyst and Translator, Dies at 87 (Published 2020)". The New York Times. April 6, 2020.
  11. ^ La mort de Pierre Alferi, écrivain singulier Le Monde (in French)
  12. ^ Loret, Eric. "Pierre Alferi, mort d'un auteur archipel". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-25.