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.

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.^{[ citation needed]}

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. His work is considered singular and unclassifiable as it includes poetry, drawing, music, novel and philosophy. ^[4] Alféri was also a translator of poetry and philosophy including the work of Agamben. ^[5]

Personal life and death

Pierre Alféri was born in Paris on 10 April 1963. ^{[6] [7]} He was of Algerian-Jewish descent through his father, and Czech descent through his mother. ^[8]

Alféri suffered from cancer and died in Paris on 16 August 2023, at the age of 60. ^{[9] [10]}

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

External links

• 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.