Alan Sheridan (1934 - 2015) was an English author and translator.

Life

Born Alan Mark Sheridan-Smith, Sheridan studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge before spending 5 years in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

as English assistant at Lycée Henri IV and

Lycée Condorcet The Lycée Condorcet () is a school founded in 1803 in Paris, France, located at 8, rue du Havre, in the city's 9th arrondissement. It is one of the four oldest high schools in Paris and also one of the most prestigious. Since its inception, var ...

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/ref> Returning to London, he briefly worked in publishing before becoming a freelance translator. He translated works of fiction, history, philosophy, literary criticism, biography and psychoanalysis by

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and lit ...

, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault,

Alain Robbe-Grillet Alain Robbe-Grillet (; 18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer and filmmaker. He was one of the figures most associated with the '' Nouveau Roman'' (new novel) trend of the 1960s, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and ...

, Robert Pinget and many others. He was the first to publish a book in English on Foucault's work and also wrote a biography of

André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism ...

. Sheridan occasionally contributed to the '' London Review of Books'' in the 1980s.

Works

Translations

(incomplete list) * Robert Pinget, ''Mahu or the Material'', 1966 * Raymond Radiguet, '' The Devil in the Flesh: A Novel'', 1968 * Philippe Sollers, ''The Park: A Novel'', 1968 *

, '' The Immortal One''. London: Calder & Boyars, 1971 * Georges Balandier, ''Political Anthropology'', 1972 * Michel Foucault, ''

The Birth of the Clinic ''The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception'' (''Naissance de la clinique: une archéologie du regard médical'', 1963), by Michel Foucault, presents the development of ''la clinique'', the teaching hospital, as a medical insti ...

'', 1973 *

Lucien Goldmann Lucien Goldmann (; 20 July 1913 – 8 October 1970) was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. A professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was a Marxist theorist. His wife was sociologist Annie Goldmann. Biography Goldmann w ...

, '' Towards a Sociology of the Novel''. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1974 *Michel Foucault, ''Mental Illness and Psychology''. New York: Harper and Row, 1976 *Michel Foucault, '' The Archaeology of Knowledge'', 1976 *Michel Foucault, '' Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison'', 1976 *

, ''

Critique of Dialectical Reason ''Critique of Dialectical Reason'' (french: Critique de la raison dialectique) is a 1960 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in which the author further develops the existentialist Marxism he first expounded in his essay '' Search for a Met ...

'', 1976 *

Manuel Castells Manuel Castells Oliván (; ; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. He is a scholar of the information society, co ...

, ''The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach''. London: Edward Arnold, 1977 * Jacques Lacan, ''The Seminar, Book XI,

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis ''The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis'' is the 1978 English-language translation of a seminar held by Jacques Lacan. The original (french: Le séminaire. Livre XI. Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse) was published in P ...

'', London: Hogarth, 1976, reprinted by Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993. * Jacques Lacan, ''Écrits: A Selection'', 1977 * Sébastien Japrisot, ''One Deadly Summer''. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. * Pierre Petitfils, ''Rimbaud'', 1987 *Michel Foucault, ''Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984'', ed. Lawrence D. Kritzmann, 1988 * Tahar Ben Jelloun, '' The Sand Child'', 1989 *

Michel Tournier Michel Tournier (; 19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the ''Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française'' in 1967 for '' Friday, or, The Other Island'' and the Prix Goncourt for '' The Erl-King'' i ...

, ''Gilles & Jeanne'', 1990 * Tahar Ben Jelloun, ''The Sacred Night'', 1991 * Jean Lacouture, ''De Gaulle: The Ruler, 1945-1970'', 1991. * Agota Kristof, ''The Notebook'', 1989 * Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, ''Sexuality in Islam'', 1998

Novels

*''Vacation'', 1972 *''Time and Place'', 2003

Other

* ''Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth'' (1980) * ''André Gide: A Life in the Present'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999)

References

External links

Personal website
1934 births Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge French–English translators Translators of philosophy Translators of Jacques Lacan 2015 deaths {{UK-writer-stub