Roger_Kempf

Roger Kempf

Roger Kempf

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Roger Kempf (6 July 1927[1] – 9 September 2014) was a French writer, philosopher, Germanist and ethnologist of literature, and emeritus professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich.

Roger Kempf

He was awarded several literary prizes, including the Prix Alfred Née of the Académie française in 1969 for his book Sur le corps romanesque, the Prix Ève Delacroix of the Académie française in 2005 for L'indiscrétion des frères Goncourt and the Prix Femina essai in 2004 for the same work.

Publications

Fiction

Essai

  • Diderot et le roman, Seuil, coll. Pierres Vives
  • Sur le corps romanesque, Seuil, coll. Pierres Vives
  • How nice to see you! Americana. Mœurs : ethnologie et fiction, Seuil, coll. Pierre Vives
  • Dandies : Baudelaire et Cie, Seuil, coll. Pierre Vives
  • Sur le dandysme (texts presented by Roger Kempf), Union Générale des éditions
  • Les États-Unis en mouvement (collectif Méditations, n° 1), Denoël/Gonthier
  • Le Pénis et la démoralisation de l'Occident (with Jean-Paul Aron), Grasset, coll. Figures, 1978
  • Bouvard, Flaubert et Pécuchet, Grasset
  • L'indiscrétion des frères Goncourt, Grasset, 2004, Prix Ève-Delacroix of the Académie française, 2005[2] and Prix Femina essai 2004.[3]

Translation

  • Essai pour introduire en philosophie le concept de grandeur négative bty Emmanuel Kant, Vrin
  • Observations sur le sentiment du beau et du sublime by Emmanuel Kant, Vrin
  • Controverse avec Eberhard by Emmanuel Kant, Vrin

References

  1. [1]
    Notice d'autorité personne sur le site de la BnF
  2. [2]
    Roger Kempf on the site of the Académie française.
  3. [3]
    L'indiscrétion des frères Goncourt - Prix Femina de l'essai 2004 sur le site de Rue des Livres
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