Christian Prigent

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Christian Prigent (born September 12, 1945 in Saint-Brieuc ) is a French writer , experimental poet and literary critic .

Life

Christian Prigent was born in Saint-Brieuc in 1945. From 1967 to 2005 he worked as a secondary school teacher for literature . In 1977 he received his doctorate with Roland Barthes at the University of Paris VIII with a dissertation on the poetics of Francis Ponge . After stays in Rome (1978–1980) and Berlin (1985–1991), he has lived in his birthplace in Brittany since 2007 .

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Due to the breadth and diversity of his work, Christian Prigent has become a central figure in France's literary avant-garde since the 1960s . As a poet and theorist , he closely followed the literary developments of his time. With reference to Jacques Lacan , he uncompromisingly demands a letter that has to open to the real outside of him .

For example, in the context of the journal Tel Quel published by Philippe Sollers from 1960 to 1982 , which was a platform for post-structuralist thought, he founded the Revue TXT in 1969 with Jean-Luc Steinmetz , which he directed until 1993. From 1977 it was flanked by a series of the same name in which he published works by authors considered difficult or subversive, including a. Valère Novarina , Welimir Chlebnikow , Philippe Muray , Jean-Pierre Verheggen or Christian Prigent himself.

In 1996 he founded the literary magazine Fusées together with the painter Mathias Pérez , whom he had met in 1981 during a stay in the Villa Medici (Rome) . In contrast to TXT, it no longer propagated a break with literary conventions , but reflected the legacy of the literary avant-garde, whereby here too the focus was on new spellings by representatives of the new literary generation such as Charles Pennequin .

Prigent also worked on numerous other literary magazines in France and abroad. His most important books are published by the Paris publishing house POL , including volumes of poetry, fictional texts and essays critical of literature . Part of his self-image as an author are his performative public readings , including on the opening evening of the 2015 International Poetry Festival at the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

In German-speaking countries, texts by Prigent have only appeared sporadically in magazines such as Zwischen den Linien , Schreibheft and La mer gelée . It wasn't until 2014 that the only single publication translated into German was published.

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As an author and essayist, Prigent competes against any kind of uniformization of literary language, against what he calls the “ collectivization of experience , of the unconscious , of styles ”. Literature must dispense with all stereotypes and, in speaking, build on the singular experience of one's own body. He is not afraid to provoke argumentative and ironic in his fight against the "parler faux" ( German wrong speaking) . What creates popularity is "the use of a dead - academic and uniformed - language". On the other hand, he demands more than “small stylistic deviations, scandals , paradoxes for television discussions - that is the 'moderate indecency' today, without which there is no modernist alibi ”, but a different kind of “indecency”: “Writing is something different: that absolute indecency, that which is inappropriate and makes brutal eccentricity a law. ”Stylistically, he continues the influential tradition of the poésie sonore (literally: sound poetry) of Bernard Heidsiek , which is understood more comprehensively in France than in the German-speaking area designated phonetic poetry ( French poésie phonétique). Astounding combinations of sounds, word interleaving and metaphors characterize his style as well as the entanglement of discourses and the deconstruction and reinterpretation of classical authors.

Awards

Publications

Poetry

  • La belle journée . 1969.
  • Femme dans la neige . 1971.
  • La mort de l'imprimeur . 1975.
  • Paysage avec vols d'oiseaux . 1982.
  • Une élégie . 1983.
  • Une leçon d'anatomie . 1990.
  • Écrit au couteau . 1993.
  • Dum pendiet filius . 1998.
  • L'âme . 2000.
  • La Vie modern . 2012.
  • Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry , 2016. Enitharmon Press
  • Les Amours Chino . 2016.

prose

  • L'main . 1975.
  • Œuf-glotte . 1979.
  • Power / powder . 1977.
  • Voilà les sexes . 1981.
  • Peep show (un roman en vers) . 1984.
  • Journal de l'oeuvide . 1984.
  • Deux dames au bain avec portrait du donateur . 1984.
  • Commencement . 1989.
  • Une phrase pour ma mère . 1996.
  • Le Professeur . 2001.
  • Grand-mère Quéquette . 2003.
  • Demain je meurs . 2007.
  • Météo des plages (novel in verse). 2010.
  • Les Enfances Chino (novel). 2013.

essay

  • Le Groin et le Menhir (Denis Roche) (essay). 1977.
  • Viallat, la main perdue (essay). 1981.
  • Comme la peinture (Daniel Dezeuze) (essay). 1983.
  • La Langue et ses monstres (essay). 1989 (corrected and supplemented new edition 2014).
  • Ceux qui merdRent (essay). 1991.
  • Six jours sur le tour (Chronicle). 1991.
  • Viallat la main perdue (essay). 1996.
  • À quoi bon encore les poètes? (Essay). 1996.
  • Rien qui porte un nom (essay). 1996.
  • Une erhur de la nature (essay). 1996.
  • L'écriture, ça crispe le mou (book and audio CD). 1997.
  • Berlin deux temps trois mouvements (Chronicle). 1999.
  • Salut les anciens, salut les modern (essay). 2000.
  • L'Incontenable (essay). 2004.
  • Ne me faites pas dire ce que je n'écris pas: entretiens avec Hervé Castanet (conversations). 2004.
  • Ce qui fait tenir (essay / poetry). 2005.
  • Le monde est marrant (vu à la télé): Chroniques (Chronicle). 2008.
  • Compile (read texts). 2011.

In German translation

In magazines

  • Christian Prigent. In: Norbert Wehr (ed.): Writing book (No. 22). Rigodon, Essen, 1983. (Reprint at Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt 1986, ISBN 978-3-8615025-9-3 .)
  • Christian Prigent: Real Zero: Poetry. In: Urs Engeler (ed.): Between the lines (Issue 13, with audio CD). Urs Engeler, Basel, 1999, ISBN 978-3-9520722-8-8 .
  • Christian Prigent, translated by Odile Kennel. In: Aurélie Maurin u. a. (Ed.): La mer gelée (Issue 5: marges / randgangs), Paris / Berlin, 2008.

Single publication

  • Christian Prigent: The soul. Translated and edited by Christian Filips and Aurélie Maurin. roughbooks, Berlin / Solothurn, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Prigent: La Poétique de Francis Ponge . Paris 8 . Paris 1977.
  2. ↑ a b biography at pol-editeur.com , accessed on January 31, 2017
  3. ↑ To Christian Prigent at autourdechristianprigent.blogspot.com , accessed on January 31, 2017
  4. ↑ TXT 1969-1993 (une anthologie) . Christian Bourgois, Paris, 1995.
  5. ↑ Fabrice Thumerel: Le Champ littéraire français au XXe siècle - Eléments pour une sociologie de la littérature. Armand Colin (coll. "U"), Paris, 2002.
  6. ^ Program of the Akademie der Künste at adk.de, accessed on January 31, 2017
  7. ↑ a b Review by Walter Fabian Schmid at signaturen-magazin.de , accessed on January 31, 2017
  8. ↑ a b Interview with Christian Prigent. In: Norbert Wehr (ed.): Writing book (No. 22). Rigodon, Essen, 1983. - Quoted from: Review in the newspaper Der Standard from September 14, 2007 at derstandard.at , accessed on January 31, 2017
  9. ↑ Colloquium Cerisy 2014 program at ccic-cerisy.asso.fr , accessed on January 31, 2017
  10. ↑ News from independent publishers at 987-3.com , accessed on January 31, 2017
  11. ↑ biography at haus-fuer-poesie.org , accessed on January 31, 2017
  12. ↑ Christian Prigent: The soul. Publishing announcement at roughbooks.ch , accessed on January 31, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Prigent, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, poet and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Brieuc