Pierre Alféri Writer

Pierre Alféri (French: [alfeʁi]; born 1963) is a French novelist, poet, and essayist. Alféri is the son of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and psychoanalyst Marguerite Aucouturier.After his dissertation on William of Ockham, Alféri began to primarily write poetry. Alféri is also a literary translator who has translated works by John Donne, Giorgio Agamben and Meyer Schapiro from English and Russian into French. He has also written songs for several performing artists including Jeanne Balibar. Between 1991 and 1992, Alféri was writer-in-residence at the Fondation Royaumont, and at the French Academy in Rome between 1987 and 1988.Alféri is co-founder (with Suzanne Doppelt), of the literary journal Détail, and La Revue de Littérature Générale (with Olivier Cadiot). Alféri teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.