Antoine Compagnon (born 20 July 1950 in
Brussels
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, Belgium) is a Professor of French Literature at
Collège de France, Paris (2006–), and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at
Columbia University
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,
New York City
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(1985–).
Education
Compagnon studied at
École Polytechnique
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(1970) and
École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
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(1975), and holds a Doctorate of
Paris Diderot University
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(1985).
Career
Compagnon was a Fellow of the Fondation Thiers (1975-1978), taught at
École Polytechnique
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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(1978-1985), Institut français du Royaume-Uni, London (1980-1981),
University of Rouen The University of Rouen Normandy (''Université de Rouen Normandie'') is a French university, in the Academy of Rouen.
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(1981-1985), was a visiting professor at the
University of Pennsylvania
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, Philadelphia (1986, 1990), Fellow of the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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(1988), Professor at
University of Maine (France)
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Composition
In accor ...
, Le Mans (1989-1990), visiting fellow at
All Souls College
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, Oxford (1994), Professor at
Paris-Sorbonne University
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(1994-2006).
He is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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(1997) and
Academia Europaea (2006), and a Corresponding Fellow of the
British Academy
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(2009). He received an Honorary Degree of
King's College London
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(2010),
HEC Paris
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(2012), and
University of Liège
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(2013), and the Claude Lévi-Strauss Prize of the
Académie des sciences morales et politiques (2011).
In 2012, Compagnon did a daily broadcast on
France Inter
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, ''Un été avec Montaigne''. The programme was published as a book which became a bestseller in 2013. He has done several more ''
Un été avec
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'' series, including ''Un été avec Baudelaire'' in 2014. In 2013, he curated a show of Proust's manuscripts from the
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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at the
Morgan Library
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.
[Edward Rothstein]
"Proust, for Those With a Memory. Marcel Proust and 'Swann’s Way' at the Morgan Library"
''The New York Times
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'', February 14, 2013.
Publications
* ''La Seconde Main ou le travail de la citation'' (Seuil, 1979).
* ''Le Deuil antérieur'' (Seuil, 1979).
* ''Nous, Michel de Montaigne'' (Seuil, 1980).
* ''La Troisième République des Lettres'' (Seuil, 1983).
* ''Ferragosto'' (Flammarion, 1985).
* ''Proust entre deux siècles'' (Seuil, 1989).
* ''Les Cinq Paradoxes de la modernité'' (Seuil, 1990).
* ''L’Esprit de l’Europe'' (Flammarion, 1993).
* ''Chat en poche. Montaigne et l’allégorie'' (Seuil, 1993).
* ''Connaissez-vous Brunetière ?'' (Seuil, 1997).
* ''Le Démon de la théorie'' (Seuil, 1998).
* ''Baudelaire devant l’innombrable'' (PUPS, 2003).
* ''Les Antimodernes, de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes'' (Gallimard, 2005).
* ''La Littérature, pour quoi faire ?'' (Collège de France / Fayard, 2007).
* ''Que reste-t-il de la culture française ?'' (Denoël, 2008).
* ''Le Cas Bernard Faÿ. Du Collège de France à l’indignité nationale'' (Gallimard, 2009).
* ''La Classe de rhéto'' (Gallimard, 2012).
* ''Un été avec Montaigne'' (Équateurs / France Inter, 2013).
* ''Une question de discipline. Entretiens avec Jean-Baptiste Amadieu'' (Flammarion, 2013).
* ''Baudelaire l’irréductible'' (Flammarion, 2014).
* ''Un été avec Baudelaire'' (Équateurs / France Inter, 2015).
* ''Petits Spleens numériques'' (Équateurs, 2015).
* ''L’Âge des lettres'' (Gallimard, 2015).
* ''Un été avec Pascal'' (Équateurs / France Inter, 2020).
* ''Un été avec Colette'' (Équateurs / France Inter, 2022).
Compagnon edited Marcel Proust, ''Du côté de chez Swann'' (Gallimard, Folio, 1988), ''Sodome et Gomorrhe'' (Gallimard, Pléiade, 1988; Folio, 1989), ''Carnets,'' in collaboration (Gallimard, 2002); Albert Thibaudet, ''Réflexions sur la politique'' (Robert Laffont, Bouquins, 2007), ''Réflexions sur la littérature'' (Gallimard, Quarto, 2007); Charles Péguy, ''L’Argent'' (Équateurs, 2008); Paul Bourget, ''Le Disciple'' (Le Livre de Poche, 2010); Maurice Barrès, ''Mes cahiers'' (Équateurs, 2010).
Many of Compagnon's publications are translated in
English
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References
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1950 births
Living people
École Polytechnique alumni
Columbia University faculty
Collège de France faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
Members of the Académie Française
People from Brussels