Pierre Alféri
Pierre Alféri is a French novelist, poet, and essayist. Alféri is the son of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier.Biography
After his dissertation on William of Ockham, Alféri began to primarily write poetry. Alféri is also a literary translator who has translated works by John Donne, Giorgio Agamben and Meyer Schapiro from English and Russian into French. He has 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 is co-founder, of the literary journal Détail, and La Revue de Littérature Générale. Alféri teaches at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, and the European Graduate School.Publications
;Poetry
- Les Allures naturelles POL, Paris, 1991
- Le Chemin familier du poisson combatif, POL, Paris, 1992
- Kub Or, POL, Paris, 1994
- Sentimentale journée, POL, Paris, 1997
- Personal Pong, Villa Saint-Clair, Sète, 1997
- Handicap, Rroz, 2000
- petit, petit, Rup et rud, 2001
- La Voie des airs, POL, Paris, 2004
- Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry, 2016. Enitharmon Press
;Novels
- Fmn, POL, Paris, 1994
- Le Cinéma des familles, POL, Paris, 1999
- Les Jumelles, POL, Paris, 2009
- Après vous, POL, Paris, 2010
;Essays
- Guillaume d'Ockham le singulier, Minuit, coll. « Philosophie », Paris, 1989
- Chercher une phrase, Christian Bourgois, coll. « Détroits », Paris, 1991
- Des enfants et des monstres, POL, Paris, 2004
;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
