Biography

She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure

École Normale Supérieure

The École normale supérieure is one of the most prestigious French grandes écoles...

 in the Rue d'Ulm and at Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

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She graduated with the Doctor of Philosophy. She lectured in ancient philosophy, at the Nancy 2 University

Nancy 2 University

Nancy 2 University is a French university located in Nancy, France. It is a member of the Nancy-Université federation, a group of the three higher education institutions in Nancy.-Teaching:...

, from 1999 to 2002, a research fellow at CNRS since 2002. She taught philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne University.

Her work

She has published several books and articles on ancient philosophy and its contemporary reception, and translated Plotinus

Plotinus

Plotinus was a major philosopher of the ancient world. In his system of theory there are the three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. His teacher was Ammonius Saccas and he is of the Platonic tradition...

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She is the author of five novels: The Devil spotter is the story, haunted by the figure of Persephone, the passion of a teenager to a mature man; The Detached heard the voice of 'a young woman, Margot, sister of Florence Rey distant from the prison where she is incarcerated. She said her love for Peter, his struggle with him for the undocumented, the experience of rebellion and radical rejection. The voice of this prisoner, locked in his camera inside, which still resounds in isolation, a story about the prison, bereavement and deprivation.

Resident of the Villa Medici

Villa Medici

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 in 2005, she wrote a novel variation on the ugliness in our lives wears transformations, which confronts the inner monologue of a woman ugly in the aesthetic discourse of indifference of the beautiful and the ugly. Following this, she composed an anthology, The (dis) taste of the ugliness.

She adapted for France Culture

France Culture

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, a radio play of The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch

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In 2009, she won the Prix Femina

Prix Femina

The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse . The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury, although the authors of the winning works do not have to be women...

 for Personne, a story about her father who suffered from manic-depression.
From the diary he kept which she found after his death, and also her own memories, she traces the fragmented portrait of a man who was a stranger to himself and the world.

Works

• Le Diable détacheur, Actes Sud, bourse Cino del Duca 1999
• L'Isolée, Stock, 2002
• L'Isolement, Stock, 2003
• Plotin. Traité 53 (I, 1) Introduction, translation, commentary and notes, Cerf, Collection Les Ecrits de Plotin, 2004
• Notre vie s'use en transfigurations, Actes Sud, 2007
• Le (dé)goût de la laideur , Mercure de France, 2007
• Dieu sans la puissance: Dunamis et Energeia chez Aristote et chez Plotin (essai), Vrin, 2007
• Personne, Mercure de France, 2009