Michel Deguy
Michel Deguy (23 May 1930 – 16 February 2022) was a French poet and translator.
Michel Deguy
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- Name
- Michel Deguy
- Born
- 23 May 1930
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 16 February 2022
- Occupation
- Poet and translator
- Full name
- Michel Robert Deguy.
- Nationality
- France.
- Fields
- poetry, editing and translation.
- Honours
- Fénéon Prize for literature, Max Jacob Prize, Grand prix national de la poésie, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Grand prix de poésie de la SGDL and Grand Prix de Poésie.
- Languages
- French and German.
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Michel Deguy (23 May 1930 – 16 February 2022) was a French poet and translator.
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Michel Deguy (1930–2022) was an editing staff, editor-in-chief and essayist, among other activities, of French nationality. The editing staff was born Michel Robert Deguy and died in 5th arrondissement of Paris.
Michel Deguy worked for Critique, Les Temps modernes and Lycée Claude-Bernard, among others and was a member of comité de lecture des éditions Gallimard. The editing staff held the positions of editor-in-chief and president. Activity centred on editing, poetry and translation.
Languages used include French and German. Honours include Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Fénéon Prize for literature and Grand Prix de Poésie, among others.
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Michel Loirette is recorded as having studied under Michel Deguy. The recorded working language is French and German. The field of work recorded is poetry, editing and translation. Employment is recorded with Lycée Claude-Bernard, Paris 8 University and Critique. Positions recorded include president and editor-in-chief. Distinctions recorded are Fénéon Prize for literature, Max Jacob Prize, Grand prix national de la poésie and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
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• Name — Michel Deguy • Born — 23 May 1930 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 16 February 2022 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Poet and translator
Biography
Biography
Deguy was born in Paris on 23 May 1930 into a family of industrialists. He taught French literature at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis) for many years. He also served as director of the French literary journal Po&sie, and as editor of Les Temps Modernes, the literary journal founded by Jean-Paul Sartre. As a translator, he translated Heidegger, Gongora, Sappho, Dante, and many others. He won the following prizes for his work: the Prix Mallarme, the Grand prix national de la poésie, the Prix Max Jacob, the Grand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie Française, the Prix Fénéon, and the Prix Joseph-Kessel. Deguy died in Paris on 16 February 2022, at the age of 91. The actress Marie-Armelle Deguy is his daughter.
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Works
• Les Meurtrières, Pierre Jean Oswald, 1959, 63 p. • Fragment du cadastre, Gallimard, series "Le Chemin", 1960, 156 p. • Poèmes de la presqu’île, Hermann, series "Le Chemin", 1961, 149 p. • Le Monde de Thomas Mann, Plon, 1962, 168 p. • Biefs: poèmes, Gallimard, "Collection Blanche", 1964, 164 p. • Actes, Gallimard, series "Le Chemin", 1966. 301 p. • Ouï dire, Gallimard, series "Blanche", 1966, 109 p. (reprinted with a preface by Alain Bonfand, La Différence, series "Orphée", (136), 1992, 127 p.) • Histoire des rechutes, Éditions Promesse, series "Diptyque", 1968, 33 p. (etchings by Enrique Zañartu) • Figurations: poèmes, propositions, études, Gallimard, series "Le Chemin", 1969, 272 p. • Poèmes 1960-1970, preface by Henri Meschonnic, Gallimard, series "Poésie", (90), 1973, 143 p.; reprinted in 1998 • Tombeau de Du Bellay, Gallimard, series "Le Chemin", 1973, 234 p.; réédité en 1989 • Coupes, Luxembourg, Origine, series "Le Verger", (18), 1974, 33 p. (poems by M. Deguy accompanied by their Italian translations by Luigi Mormino and one linogravure by Jorge Perez-Roman.) • Interdictions du séjour, L’Énergumène, 1975, 38 p. (with quasi-quotes by Thomas Hardy, Schlesinger, Benveniste, Homère, Mallarmé, Aristote, G. Iommi, Suétone, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Villon et Pernette du Guillet.) • Reliefs, Éditions D’atelier, 1975, 143 p. • Abréviations usuelles, Malakoff, Orange Export Ltd, series "Chutes", 1977 [s.n.] • Jumelages, followed by Made in USA: poèmes, Le Seuil, series "Fiction & Cie", 1978, 232 p. • Vingt Poètes américains, Gallimard, series "Du monde entier", 1980, 495 p. [bilingual edition] • Donnant, Donnant: cartes, airs, brevets, Gallimard, series "Le Chemin", 1981, 140 p. • La Machine matrimoniale ou Marivaux, Gallimard, series "Le Chemin", 1982, 292 p., with a bibliography (reprinted in 1986 in the series "Tel", (110), 319 p. • René Girard et le problème du Mal, Grasset, 1982, 333 p. • Gisants. Poèmes, Gallimard, 1985, 139 p. • Brevets, Seyssel, Champ Vallon, series "Recueil", 1986, 260 p. • Choses de la poésie et affaire culturelle, Hachette, 1986, 220 p. • Poèmes II. 1970-1980, Gallimard, series "Poésie", (205), 1986, 183 p., postface de l’auteur • La poésie n’est pas seule: court traité de poétique, Le Seuil, series "Fiction & Cie", (99), 1987, 185 p. • Le Comité. Confessions d’un lecteur de grande maison, Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 1988, 206 p. • Du Sublime, Éditions Belin, 1988, 259 p. • Arrêts fréquents, A. M. Métailié, series "L’Élémentaire", 1990, 119 p. • Au sujet de Shoah, le film de Claude Lanzmann, Belin, series "L’Extrême contemporain", 1990, 316 p. • L’Hexaméron: il y a prose et prose (with Michel Chaillou, Florence Delay, Natacha Michel, Denis Roche and Jacques Roubaud), Le Seuil, series "Fiction & Cie", 1990, 126 p. • Aux heures d’affluence. Poèmes et proses, Le Seuil, series "Fiction & Cie", 1993, 200 p. • À ce qui n’en finit pas. Thrène, Le Seuil, series "La Librairie du XXe", 1995 [s.n.]; translated as To That Which Ends Not by Robert Harvey, New York, Spuyten Duyvil, 2018. • À l’infinitif, Paris, Éditions La Centuplée, 1996, 56 p. • L’Énergie du désespoir, ou d’une poétique continuée par tous les moyens, Presses universitaires de France, series "Les essais du Collège international de Philosophie", 1998, 119 p. • Gisants. Poèmes III. 1980-1995, Gallimard, series "Poésie", 1999, 239 p. • La Raison poétique, Paris, Éditions Galilée, series "La Philosophie en effet", 2000, 221 p. • L’Impair, Tours, Farrago, 2000 [2001], 155 p. • Spleen de Paris, Éditions Galilée, 2000, 54 p. • Poèmes en pensée, Bordeaux, éd. Le Bleu du ciel, 2002, 59 p. (includes "Motifs pour un poème" by Alain Lestié.) • Un homme de peu de foi, Paris, Bayard, 2002, 216 p. • L’Amour et la vie d’une femme, Bordeaux, éd. Le Bleu du ciel, July 2004, non paginé, hors commerce • Chirurgie esthétique, Michel Deguy/Bertrand Dorny, 12 ex. photocopiés, accompagnés de collages originaux by Bertrand Dorny, Paris, Galerie Thessa Herold, 2004, 12 p. (includes numerous texts by Deguy on the works presented in the catalog: La Fête Ici, La Cervelle, Pourquoi ne pas Bertrand... Pour Bertrand Dorny, Au gué du bois flotté... Topomorphoses, Vitrines, Musée manipulé, Architectures.) • Au jugé, Éditions Galilée, 2004, 213 p. • Sans retour. Être ou ne pas être juif, Éditions Galilée, 134 p. • Recumbents: poems. With « How to name » by Jacques Derrida, translations, foreword, and notes by Wilson Baldridge, Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 2005, 236 p. • Le Sens de la visite, Stock, series "L'Autre Pensée", 2006, 353 p. • Des poètes français contemporains, with Robert Davreu and Hédi Kaddour, Éditions ADPF, Paris, 2006, 130 p. • Réouverture après travaux, frontispiece by Valerio Adami, Éditions Galilée, 2007, 271 p. • Desolatio, Galilée, 2007, 97 p. • Grand cahier Michel Deguy, collective coordonnated by J.-P. Moussaron, Coutras, éd. Le Bleu du ciel, 2007, 334 p. (in appendix Meurtrières by M. Deguy; bibliography p. 330-334.) • La Fin dans le monde, Éditions Hermann, series "Le Bel Aujourd'hui", 2009 • L’État de la désunion, Paris, Galaade éditions, 2010, 48 p. • Écologiques, Éditions Hermann, series "Le Bel Aujourd'hui", 2012, 260 p. • La Pietà Baudelaire, Belin, series "L'extrême contemporain", 2013
Symposium
Symposium
• Michel Deguy. L'allégresse pensive, Martin Rueff (dir.), Paris, Belin, coll. « L'extrême contemporain », 2007, 575 p.; Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle, Manche, 2006
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Max Loreau, Michel Deguy. La poursuite de la poésie tout entière, Gallimard, coll. « Le Chemin », 1980.
- Jean-Pierre Moussaron, La Poésie comme avenir. Essai sur l'œuvre de Michel Deguy, précédé de « Syllabe », de Jacques Derrida, Le Griffon d'argile/Presses universitaires de Grenoble, coll. « Trait d'union », Sainte-Foy/Grenoble, 1992.
- Hélène Volat et Robert Harvey, Les écrits de Michel Deguy : Bibliographie, 1960-2000, IMEC, coll. « Inventaires », Paris, 2002.
- Martin Rueff, Différence et identité. Michel Deguy, situation d'un poète lyrique à l'apogée du capitalisme culturel, Hermann, Paris, 2009.
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