Roger Kempf (6 July 1927 – 9 September 2014) was a French writer, philosopher,

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. He was awarded several literary prizes, including the Prix Alfred Née of the Académie française in 1969 for his book ''Sur le corps romanesque'', the Prix Ève Delacroix of the Académie française in 2005 for ''L'indiscrétion des frères Goncourt'' and the Prix Femina essai in 2004 for the same work.

Publications

Fiction

* ''Un ami pour la vie'', Grasset * ''Avec

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Essai

* ''Diderot et le roman'',

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, coll. ''Pierres Vives'' * ''Sur le corps romanesque'', Seuil, coll. ''Pierres Vives'' * ''How nice to see you! Americana. Mœurs : ethnologie et fiction'', Seuil, coll. ''Pierre Vives'' * ''Dandies : Baudelaire et Cie'', Seuil, coll. ''Pierre Vives'' * ''Sur le dandysme'' (texts presented by Roger Kempf), Union Générale des éditions * ''Les États-Unis en mouvement'' (collectif ''Méditations'', n° 1), Denoël/Gonthier * ''Le Pénis et la démoralisation de l'Occident'' (with

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), Grasset, coll. ''Figures'', 1978 * ''Bouvard, Flaubert et Pécuchet'', Grasset * ''L'indiscrétion des frères Goncourt'', Grasset, 2004, Prix Ève-Delacroix of the Académie française, 2005 and Prix Femina essai 2004.L'indiscrétion des frères Goncourt - Prix Femina de l'essai 2004
sur le site de Rue des Livres

Translation

* ''Essai pour introduire en philosophie le concept de grandeur négative'' bty Emmanuel Kant,

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* ''Observations sur le sentiment du beau et du sublime'' by Emmanuel Kant, Vrin * ''Controverse avec Eberhard'' by Emmanuel Kant, Vrin

References

External links

Obituary
on L'Alsace.fr {{DEFAULTSORT:Kempf, Roger 20th-century French non-fiction writers Academic staff of ETH Zurich German–French translators Prix Femina essai winners 1927 births 2014 deaths 20th-century translators