Pierre Alféri (; born 1963) is a French

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, and essayist. Alféri is the son of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier.

Career

After his dissertation on

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, Alféri began to primarily write poetry. Alféri is also a literary translator who has translated works by John Donne, Giorgio Agamben and

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from English and Russian into French. He has also written songs for several performing artists including

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. Between 1991 and 1992, Alféri was writer-in-residence at the Fondation Royaumont, and at the

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between 1987 and 1988. Alféri is co-founder (with

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), of the literary journal ''Détail'', and ''La Revue de Littérature Générale'' (with

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). Alféri teaches at the

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in Paris, the

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in Paris, and the

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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'' (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 * ''OXO'' (photos by Suzanne Doppelt, trans. by Cole Swensen), Burning Deck, Providence, 2004 * ''Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry'' (translated by Kate Lermitte Campbell), 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

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École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Scienc ...

Pierre Alferi.

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, Berkeley. 2009 Regents' Lecturer. {{DEFAULTSORT:Alferi, Pierre 1963 births Living people Writers from Paris 20th-century French poets French art critics European Graduate School faculty 21st-century French poets 21st-century French male writers 20th-century French translators 21st-century translators French male poets 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French Jews Jewish poets