Jérôme Ferrari

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Jérôme Ferrari (2010)

Jérôme Ferrari (* 1968 in Paris ) is a French writer, translator and philosophy teacher.

Life

Ferrari's parents are from Corsica . He grew up in Vitry-sur-Seine and studied philosophy in Paris. After graduation, he moved to Corsica as a teacher. After teaching philosophy at the Lycée in Porto-Vecchio for seven years , he went to the Lycée Internationale Alexandre Dumas in Algiers for four years in 2007 . Since 2012 he has been teaching philosophy at the French high school in Abu Dhabi .

His breakthrough as a writer came with his novel Le sermon sur la chute de Rome (in German: The sermon on the decline of Rome), which was awarded the most famous French literary prize, the Prix ​​Goncourt , in 2012 and caused an international sensation in the feature pages .

His novel Das Prinzip (2015), expressly without intending to include a biography, is about Werner Heisenberg's personality and his contribution to the profound change in our scientific worldview through quantum physics .

criticism

  • About the novel Das Prinzip (2015): The author, who has won France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, remains true to his themes in his seventh book, the fourth one translated into German: As in his previous novels, he is interested in "Das Prinzip" in the failure and the breaks in life (Doreen Midler, Marler Zeitung March 18, 2015).

Works

  • as ed., with Cornelia Ruhe: Record the current state of things. Contemporary literature from France. they hear . Journal for literature, art and criticism, 267th Wallstein, Göttingen 2017
  • Il se passe quelque chose . Flammarion, 2017 ISBN 978-2081408838
  • Le Principe , Actes Sud, Arles 2015, ISBN 978-2-330-04871-6
    • The principle , novel. Translation: Christian Ruzicska, Paul Sourzac. Secession, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-905951-65-3
  • Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome. Actes Sud, coll. Domaine français, Arles 2012, ISBN 978-2-330-01259-5 .
    • Sermon on the fall of Rome . Translation by Christian Ruzicska. Secession, Zurich 2013 ISBN 978-3-905951-20-2
  • L'art dans Le monde comme volonté et comme représentation d'Arthur Schopenhauer . In: Philosophy en cours. 2011
  • Où j'ai laissé mon âme. 2010
    • And I left my soul behind . Translated by Christian Ruzicska. Secession, Zurich 2011
  • Un dieu un animal. 2009.
    • One god, one animal . Translated by Christian Ruzicska. Seccession, Zurich 2017
  • Balco Atlantico. 2008.
    • Balco Atlantico. Translated by Christian Ruzicska, Paul Sourzac. Secession, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-905951-24-0
  • In the secret. 2007
  • Aleph zéro. 2002

Translations from Corsican

  • Marcu Biancarelli : Prighjueri , bilingual: Prisonnier . Éditions Albione, Ajaccio, Korasika 2000, ISBN 2-905124-66-0 .
  • Marcu Biancarelli: San Ghjuvanni in Patmos , bilingual: Saint Jean a Patmos . Édititions Albione, Ajaccio, Corsica 2001, ISBN 2-905124-97-0 .
  • Marcu Biancarelli: 51 Pegasi, astri virtuali , bilingual: 51, Pegasi, astre virtuel , Éditions Albione, Ajaccio, Corsica 2004, ISBN 2-84698-100-0 .

Awards

  • 2012: Prix ​​Goncourt for Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome
  • 2010: Grand prix Poncetton, for Où j'ai laissé mon âme
  • 2010: Prix Roman France Télévisions, for Où j'ai laissé mon âme
  • 2009: Prix Landerneau, for Un dieu un animal

literature

  • Anita Traninger: Memory and World Generation in Jérôme Ferrari's Corsica Trilogy, in Journal for French Language and Literature, Vol. 126, H. 1-2, April, pp. 105-125. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2017 ISSN  0044-2747 (print)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sandra Kegel: A bar in Corsica is ideal for the novel , FAZ , May 11, 2013, p. 40.
  2. ↑ Author profile on the Académie Goncourt website
  3. ↑ Heisenberg novel The Principle "Neither Indictment nor Plea" , Deutschlandradio Kultur, March 10, 2015
  4. ↑ Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome. see French Wikipedia fr: Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome
  5. ↑ Human failure, national defeats , review by Sigrid Brinkmann in Deutschlandradio Kultur on April 8, 2013, accessed March 11, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Ferrari, Jérôme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, translator and lecturer in philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris