Jean Ristat, (born 1943 in
Argent-sur-Sauldre
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Cher
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) is a French poet and writer.
Life
Jean Ristat founded the magazine collection ''Digraph'' in 1974, as suggested by his professor of philosophy,
Jacques Derrida
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, which he then put to the recent essay on ''Plato's Pharmacy '' (see the supplement to the edition of 1974).
He is currently the director of ''
French Letters
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'', French literary supplement of the daily ''
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History and profile
Pre-World Wa ...
''.
He is also responsible for publishing the complete writings of
Aragon
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, for whom he is the literary executor.
Awards
* 1971
Fénéon Prize, for ''Du coup d'Etat en littérature''
* 2008
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, for ''Artémis chasse à courre, le sanglier, le cerf et le loup''
Works
*''The Writings of Nicolas Boileau and Jules Verne'' L'Herne, 1965. Reissued as ''The lost writings'', Gallimard, 1974, with an afterword by Louis Aragon.
*''Coups d'État in literature, followed by examples from the Bible and ancient authors'', Gallimard, 1970.
*''The entrance to the bay and taking the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1711, a tragi-comedy,''followed by ''The unknown is not anything, dialogue with
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular ...
'', EFR, 1973.
*''Who are the contemporary'', Gallimard, 1975.
*''Lord B, a novel in letters, with conversations'', Gallimard, 1977.
*''Ode to hasten the coming of Spring'', Gallimard, 1978. Reissued in paperback "Poetry", Gallimard, 2008, with a short bio-bibliographic record and a long preface of Omar Berrada.
*''The wig of the old Lenin,''tragi-comedy, Gallimard, 1980.
*''Digraph, 1974–1981'', Flammarion, 1981.
*''Tomb of Mr. Aragon'', Gallimard, 1983. Reissued in paperback "Poetry", Gallimard, 2008, with''Ode''.
*''The Wreck of the Medusa'', heroic comedy, Gallimard, 1986.
*''The carnage to Pythagoras, occasional poem in four acts written to celebrate the founding of the French Republic'', Gallimard, 1991.
*''The love of parliament, praised Mr. Burattoni sitting on the tomb of Virgil and drawing'', Gallimard, 1993.
*''The place rider'', novel, Gallimard, 1996.
*''Aragon "First I read !"'', Gallimard, collection "
Découvertes Gallimard
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" (nº 328), 1997.
*''The death of the beloved tomb'', Stock, 1998. Reissued in paperback "Poetry", Gallimard, 2008, with''Ode''.
*''Olivier Debre, the theater of painting ...'', Fragments Editions, 2000.
*''N Y Meccano'', Gallimard, 2001.
*''With Aragon. 1970–1982'', interviews with
Francis Cremieux, Gallimard, 2003.
*''Aragon, the man with the glove'', Le Temps des Cerises, 2005.
*''The Journey to Jupiter and beyond, perhaps'', Gallimard, 2006.
*''Artemis, fox hunting, wild boar, deer and wolf'', Gallimard, 2007.
*''The Theater of the sky. A reading of Rimbaud'', Gallimard, 2009.
External links
"Jean Ristat", ''Loser's Guide'', September 25, 2008"Qui est le contemporain? Jean Ristat", ''Neophilologus'', Springer Netherlands, ISSN 0028-2677, Issue Volume 88, Number 4, October, 2004
Les Lettres Françaises online edition
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1943 births
Living people
French poets
French male poets
Prix Fénéon winners