Marianne Alphant (born 1945 in Paris) is a French writer and literary critic. A graduate from the

École normale supérieure de jeunes filles The ''École normale supérieure de jeunes filles'' (also, ''École normale supérieure de Sèvres'') was a French institute of higher education, in Sèvres, now a commune in the suburbs of Paris. The school educated girls only, especially as teac ...

in 1964 and agrégée de philosophie, Marianne Alphant worked for the daily ''

Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...

'' from 1983 to 1992. She directed the "Revues parlées" of the

Centre Georges Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

from 1993 to 2010.

Works

* 1975: ''Grandes « O »'',

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 Ga ...

* 1978: ''Le Ciel à Bezons'', Gallimard. * 1983: ''L’Histoire enterrée'', * 1993: ''Monet : une vie dans le paysage'', Hazan. * 1994: ''Claude Monet en Norvège'', Hazan. * 1998: ''Pascal : tombeau pour un ordre'', Hachette Littératures. * 2001: ''Explications. Interviews with

Pierre Guyotat Pierre Guyotat (9 January 1940 – 7 February 2020) was a French writer. Early life Pierre Guyotat was born on 9 January 1940 in Bourg-Argental, Loire. Literary career 1960s–1970s Guyotat wrote his first novel, '' Sur un cheval'', in 1960. ...

'', éditions Léo Scheer. * 2007: ''Petite nuit'', P.O.L. * 2010: ''Claude Monet. Cathédrale(s) de Rouen'', éditions Point de vues. * 2013: ''Ces choses-là'' P.O.L.

External links

Marianne Alphant
on

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Marianne Alphant, publications
on CAIRN
Claude Monet. ''Une vie dans le paysage''
on Hazan
Marianne Alphant ''Ces choses-là''
on YouTube

on ''

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

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