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Pierre Alféri

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  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.
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