L'Infini
''L'Infini'' (in English ''Infinity'') is a French literary collection and magazine, established in 1983 in Paris by Philippe Sollers as a follow up of the magazine ''Tel Quel''. The magazine was first published by Éditions Denoël and later on by Éditions Gallimard. The magazine has published work by French authors, including its founder, Philippe Sollers, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Julia Kristeva, Marcelin Pleynet, and other notable French writers and young authors such as Marc-Edouard Nabe, Pierre Bourgeade, François Meyronnis, Yannick Haenel, Frédéric Berthet, David di Nota, Clément Rosset, Alexandre Duval-Stalla, Chantal Thomas, Thomas A. Ravier, Cécile Guilbert, Bernard Sichère, Raphaël Denys, and Alessandro Mercuri. Others include Philip Roth and Milan Kundera Milan Kundera (, ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 19 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yannick Haenel
Yannick Haenel (born 1967, Rennes) is a French writer, cofounder of the literary magazine '. Biography The son of a soldier, Yannick Haenel studied at the Prytanée National Militaire at La Flèche. From 1997, he codirected the magazine ''Ligne de risque'' with François Meyronnis. Until 2005 he was a teacher of French at lycée La Bruyère in Versailles. He published several novels, including ''Introduction à la mort française'' and ''Évoluer parmi les avalanches'', as well as an essay about the tapestries of ''The Lady and the Unicorn'': ''À mon seul désir''. He also directed two volumes of interviews with Philippe Sollers: ''Ligne de risque'' and ''Poker''. In 2007, he published ''Cercle'' (Éditions Gallimard), a novel which earned him the prix Décembre and the prix Roger Nimier. In 2007, a controversy arose with Alina Reyes who accused him of plagiarism. In 2008-2009, Haenel was a resident at the French Academy in Rome, the Villa Médicis. In 2009, he was aw ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pierre Bourgeade
Pierre Bourgeade (7 November 1927 – 12 March 2009) was a French man of letters, playwright, poet, writer, director, journalist, literary critic and photographer. A descendant of Jean Racine, he was also the brother-in-law of the writer Paule Constant. Work Prizes * 1966: Prix Hermès-ESCP (''Les Immortelles'', Gallimard) * 1976: Prix du Syndicat de la Critique dramatique (''Palazzo Mentale'') * 1979: Prix Max Barthou de l'Académie française (''Une ville grise'', Gallimard) * 1983: Prix Mottart de l'Académie française + sélection Prix Goncourt (''Les Serpents'', Gallimard) * 1990: Prix du public et de la photographie Monte-Carlo (''Quartier nègre'') * 1998: Grand prix Paul-Féval de littérature populaire of the Société des Gens de Lettres (''Pitbull'', Gallimard) * 2009: Prix spécial du jury Sade (''Éloge des fétichistes'' () Selected bibliography Novels * 1968: ''La Rose rose'' (Gallimard "Le Chemin") * 1969: ''New York Party'' (Gallimard "Le Chemin") * 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Frédéric Berthet
Frédéric Berthet (20 August 1954 – 25 December 2003) was a 20th-century French writer. Biography A former student of the École Normale Supérieure (1974-1977), Frédéric Berthet is a resident at the Bibliothèque nationale de France where he notably worked on the "fonds Barrès". Frédéric Berthet was cultural attaché in New York from 1984 to 1987. Pierre Bayard, One of his comrades in the École Normale and friend, said of him: "He had a fascinating aura, thanks to his prestigious associations:Barthes, Sollers, Julia Kristeva... But most of all, he was very funny. ..Thanks to him I discovered Fitzgerald, Philip Roth, Brautigan, Evelyn Waugh".... Five books were published during his lifetime, in the space of ten years. ''Simple journée d'été'', which the author himself defined as a "suite" of short stories, in the musical sense of the term, appeared in Denoël's L'Infini series in January 1986. Notably, this first publication contained no mention of genre or li ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tel Quel
''Tel Quel'' (translated into English as, variously: "as is," "as such," or "unchanged") was a French avant-garde literary magazine published between 1960 and 1982. History and profile ''Tel Quel'' was founded in 1960 in Paris by Philippe Sollers and Jean-Edern Hallier and published by Éditions du Seuil. Important essays working towards post-structuralism and deconstruction appeared here. Publication ceased in 1982, and the journal was succeeded by '' L'Infini'' under Sollers's continued editorship. Though the journal originally published essays more in line with what current literary theory calls " structuralism," it would eventually feature work that reflected the revaluation of literary, artistic, and music criticism that began in France in the 1960s. The editors committee included Philippe Sollers, Jean-Edern Hallier, Jean-René Huguenin, Jean Ricardou, Jean Thibaudeau, Michel Deguy, Marcelin Pleynet, Denis Roche, Jean-Louis Baudry, Jean-Pierre Faye, Jacqueline Ri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alessandro Mercuri
Alessandro Mercuri is a French-Italian author and director, born in 1973. After studying philosophy in France, he graduated from CalArts. with a MFA in Live Action. In 2001 he made ''Alien American'', a documentary film about a woman who claimed to be coming from another planet. Selected at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and screened at the Gallery 825 of the Los Angeles Art Association, the film is “neither a fake documentary nor a real fiction that refuses the hierarchy of fact over fiction and, more usefully, shows that this phantasmagoria constitutes American ideology » according to the American critic Holly Willis.Holly Willito noise : Alien American" LA Weekly, 15/02/2002. His first essay, ''Kafka Cola, without pity or added sugar'', was published in France in 2008. Described by the critics as an “unidentified literary object”, as “a mega-modern fiction” or as a “treaty of fictional sociology”, the book was praised by Philippe Sollers on its relea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Philippe Sollers
Philippe Sollers (; born Philippe Joyaux; 28 November 1936) is a French writer and critic. In 1960 he founded the ''avant garde'' literary journal ''Tel Quel'' (along with writer and art critic Marcelin Pleynet), which was published by Le Seuil and ran until 1982. Sollers then created the journal ''L'Infini'', published first by Denoel, then by Gallimard with Sollers remaining as sole editor. Sollers was at the heart of the period of intellectual fervour in the Paris of the 1960s and 1970s. He contributed to the publication of critics and thinkers such Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, and Roland Barthes. Some of them were later described in his novel ''Femmes'' (1983), alongside other figures of French intellectualism active before and after May 1968. His writings and approach to language were examined and praised by French critic Roland Barthes in his book '' Writer Sollers''. In 1990, following a televised disagreement between Canadian novelist Denise Bo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Éditions Gallimard
Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Gaston Gallimard in 1911, the publisher is now majority-owned by his grandson Antoine Gallimard. Éditions Gallimard is a subsidiary of Groupe Madrigall, the third largest French publishing group. History The publisher was founded on 31 May 1911 in Paris by Gaston Gallimard, André Gide, and Jean Schlumberger as ''Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF). From its 31 May 1911 founding until June 1919, Nouvelle Revue Française published one hundred titles including ''La Jeune Parque'' by Paul Valéry. NRF published the second volume of '' In Search of Lost Time'', In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, which became the first Prix Goncourt-awarded book published by the company. Nouvelle Revue Française adopted the name "Li ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marcelin Pleynet
Marcelin Pleynet (born 23 December 1933, in Lyon, France) is a French poet, art critic and essayist. He was Managing Editor of the influential magazine ''Tel Quel'' from 1962 to 1982, and co-edits the journal ''L'Infini'' (Gallimard) with Philippe Sollers. He was Professor of Aesthetics at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1987 to 1998. He has published numerous monographs on 20th-century art, notably ''Situation de l’art moderne: Paris-New York'' (in association with William Rubin), ''Henri Matisse'','' Robert Motherwell: La vérité en peinture'', ''Les Modernes et la tradition'', ''Les États-Units de la peinture'' and ''L’art abstrait''. He has also published books of poetry and the novel ''Prise d’otage'', and an edition of ''Giorgione et les deux Vénus''. Bibliography Essays *Le savoir-vivre, Gallimard, 2006 *Alechinsky le pinceau voyageur, Gallimard, 2002 *Rothko et la France, L'épure Eds, 1999 *Rimbaud en son temps, Gallimard, 2005 *Ju ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chantal Thomas
Chantal Thomas (born 18 October 1945, in Lyon) is a French writer and historian. Her 2002 book, ''Farewell, My Queen'', won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux. Career Thomas was born in Lyon in 1945, and was raised in Arcachon, Bordeaux, and Paris. Her life has included teaching jobs at American and French universities (such as Yale and Princeton) as well as a publishing career. She has published nineteen works, including essays on the Marquis de Sade, Casanova, and Marie Antoinette. In 2002, Thomas published ''Les adieux à la reine'' (''Farewell, My Queen''). The novel gave a fictional account of the final days of Marie Antoinette in power through the perspective of one of her servants. It won the Prix Femina in 2002, and was later adapted into the 2012 film ''Farewell, My Queen''. The film stars Diane Kruger as the titular queen and Léa Seydoux as her servant Sidonie Laborde. Thomas co-wrote the screenplay, and it opened t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Literary Magazines Published In France
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to spoken or sun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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French-language Magazines
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |