Antoine Compagnon

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Antoine Compagnon (2015)

Antoine Marcel Compagnon (born July 20, 1950 in Brussels , Belgium ) is a French literary scholar and university professor .

Life

Compagnon is the son of a French general and a Belgian mother. He attended the state military school Prytanée national militaire in La Flèche and then the École polytechnique , which he graduated in 1970 as an engineer specializing in road and bridge construction. He then devoted himself to literary studies thanks to a grant from the Thiers Foundation . From 1975 to 1978 he conducted research in the fields of linguistics and French literature at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). In 1977 he received his doctorate in French literature under Julia Kristeva ( Docteur de troisième cycle ) and in 1985 under the linguist Jean-Claude Chevalier ( Docteur d'État ès lettres ).

From 1978 to 1985 Compagnon taught at the École polytechnique in the human and social sciences department . During these years he was also visiting professor at the Institut français in Great Britain and in 1981 he became Maître de conférences at the University of Rouen . In 1985 he moved to Columbia University in New York City . In 1989 and 1990 he was a professor at the French Université du Maine and then from 1994 to 2006 at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne). Since 2006 he has held the Chair of Modern and Contemporary Literature ( Littérature française moderne et contemporaine: Histoire, critique, théorie ) at the Collège de France . Between 2006 and 2011 he was a member of the Haut Conseil de l'éducation and from 2006 to 2013 of the Haut Conseil de la science et de la technologie . Both bodies advised the government and parliament on education, science and research issues.

In 2013, Antoine Compagnon was a candidate for Fauteuil 40 at the Académie française . However, he lost to Xavier Darcos in the second ballot .

Awards and honors

Publications

  • Le Deuil Antérieur. Novel. Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1979.
  • La seconde main ou le travail de la citation . Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1979.
  • Nous, Michel de Montaigne . Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1980.
  • La Troisième République des Lettres: De Flaubert à Proust . Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-02-006583-5 .
  • Proust entre deux siècles . Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1989, reprint 2013.
  • Les Cinq Paradoxes de la modernité . Editions du Seuil, Paris 1990.
  • Chat en poche: Montaigne et l'allégorie , Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1993.
  • Le demon de la theory . Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1998.
  • Baudelaire devant l'innombrable . PUPS, 2003.
  • Les Antimodernes, de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes . Editions Gallimard, Paris 2005.
  • La litterature, pour quoi faire? Collège de France / Fayard, Paris 2007.
  • Le Cas Bernard Faÿ : Du Collège de France à l'indignité nationale . Editions Gallimard, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-07-012619-4 .
  • Un été avec Montaigne . France Inter / Éditions des Équateurs, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-84990-244-8 .
  • L'Âge des lettres . Gallimard, Paris 2015.
  • Petits Spleens numériques . Éditions des Équateurs, Paris 2015.
  • Les chiffonniers de Paris . Gallimard (Bibliothèque illustrée des histoires), Paris 2017.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How to deal with books and women. In: FAZ . July 10, 2014, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Compagnon, Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Compagnon, Antoine Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels , Belgium