Hadrien Laroche (; born 13 November 1963 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 ...

, France) is a French writer.

Biography

Born in Paris in 1963, Hadrien Laroche is a former student of the Ecole normale supérieure. He was visiting professor at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

(1985-1986) and a fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory. There he met Jacques Derrida and Patricia Williams. He completed his doctorate in philosophy under Derrida in 1996 at the

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

(EHESS); Derrida considered Laroche his last doctoral student, and as "one of the most talented and original thinkers of his generation." He has worked for the past two decades as part of the French Foreign Ministry, and is currently cultural attaché of the French consulate in Toronto.

Works

He has published essays on Jean Genet,

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically d ...

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...

("La machine à signatures", ''Inculte'' #18, 2009), and three French-language novels—''Les Orphelins'' (Paris: Allia/J'ai Lu, 2005), ''Les Heretiques'' (Paris: Flammarion, 2006), and ''La Restitution'' (Paris: Flammarion, 2009)]—which have placed him at the forefront of contemporary French writing. For the centenary of Jean Genet's birth, Arsenal Pulp Press has published a translation of his essay ''The Last Genet, a writer in revolt'', translated by David Homel. The book was presented at Nottingham Contemporary (UK). The book has been widely acclaimed by Bernard Henry Levy. He has been a correspondent for ''Les Inrockuptibles''. He has done interviews with

Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director. Ellis was first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a ...

Hubert Selby, Jr. Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer. Two of his novels, ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' (1964) and ''Requiem for a Dream'' (1978) explore worlds in the New York area and were adapted as films, both of whi ...

, and other French and American writers. For the Maison des écrivains et des traducteurs étranger meetings, he has been the editor of the magazine for the meeting ''Le Caire/Vancouver'' (2008) and the meet no. 16 ''Quito/Dublin'' (2012). He has participated in a meeting no.6 and was the director of the centenary conference ''Pour Genet'', at the Abbaye de Fontevraud in 2010.

English

* ''Marcel Duchamp: The signature's machine'', trans. by Molleen Shilliday, in ''Breathless Days, 1959, 1960'', editors: Serge Guilbaut, John O Brian (Duke University Press, 2017). . * ''Orphans'', trans. by Jan Steyn and Caite Dolan-Leach (Dalkey Archive Press, 2014). . * ''The Last Genet: a writer in revolt'', trans. by David Homel (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010). .

French

;Novels * 2009 ''La Restitution'', Flammarion * 2007 ''Les Hérétiques'', Flammarion * 2005 ''Les Orphelins'', Allia, J'ai Lu. ;Essays * 2014 ''Duchamp Déchets, Les hommes, les objets, la catastrophe'', Editions du Regard * 2009 ''La Machine à signatures'',

, ''Incultes'', #18 * 2001 ''Face à la Pente'', in Valère Novarina, Théâtres du verbe, Corti * 1997 ''Le Dernier Genet, Histoire des hommes infâmes'', Seuil, Fiction & Cie, nommé pour le

prix Fémina The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine '' La Vie heureuse'' (today known as '' Femina''). The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury. They reward French-language works written ...

;Non-fiction * 1999 ''Le Miroir chinois'', Le Seuil. ;poetry * 1990 ''au pire'', mem/Arte Facts ;Articles * "Court traité de la décision en deux pages", in Jacques Derrida L'événement déconstruction,

Les Temps modernes ''Les Temps Modernes'' (''Modern Times'') is a French journal, founded by Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It first issue was published in October 1945. It was named after the 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin. ''L ...

, n° 669-670, Gallimard, juillet/déc. 2012. * "Dans le tramway avec W.G Sebald", in Face à Sebald, édition inculte, 2011, p.p. 289-305. * "

. La machine à signatures" in inculte, n° 18, 2009, p.p 41-65.

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201011/http://www.seuil.com/livre-9782020303484.htm * http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/hadrien-laroche-last-genet-1968-1986 * https://web.archive.org/web/20110207122741/http://maisonecrivainsetrangers.com/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20141229161721/http://www.maisonecrivainsetrangers.com/Hadrien-Laroche-572.html * http://www.arsenalpulp.com/contributorinfo.php?index=291 * :fr:Hadrien Laroche * http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa0ife_hadrien-laroche-restitution-mediapa_news#.UMDji46PtOw * http://www.franceculture.fr/personne-hadrien-laroche.html * https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/the-last-genet-a-writer-in-revolt-by-hadrien-laroche/article4349837/ * http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/hadrien-laroche-last-genet-1968-1986 * http://www.magazine-litteraire.com/mensuel/437/hadrien-laroche-interrogation-radicale-responsabilite-01-12-2004-15501 * http://pigiconi.blogspot.ie/2011/07/le-dernier-genet-de-hadrien-laroche.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Laroche, Hadrien 1963 births Writers from Paris 20th-century French novelists 21st-century French novelists French poets Dartmouth College faculty École Normale Supérieure alumni Living people French LGBT poets French LGBT novelists