Jean Ristat, is a French poet and writer .

Life

Jean Ristat founded the magazine collection Digraph in 1974, as suggested by his professor of philosophy, Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...

, which he then put to the recent essay on Plato's Pharmacy (see the supplement to the edition of 1974).

He is currently the director of French Letters

French Letters

Les Lettres Françaises is a French literary publication, founded in 1941 by writers Jacques Decour and Jean Paulhan. Originally a clandestine magazine of the French Resistance in German-occupied territory, it was one of the many publications of the National Front resistance movement...

, French literary supplement of the daily L'Humanité

L'Humanité

L'Humanité , formerly the daily newspaper linked to the French Communist Party , was founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès, a leader of the French Section of the Workers' International...

.

He is also responsible for publishing the complete writings of Aragon

Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon , was a French poet, novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt.- Early life :...

, for whom he is the literary executor.

Awards

• 2008 Mallarmé prize
  Mallarmé prize
  The Mallarmé prize is a poetry prize awarded each year by the Académie Mallarmé to a French speaking poet....
  
  , for Artémis chasse à courre, le sanglier, le cerf et le loup

Works

• The Writings of Nicolas Boileau and Jules Verne L'Herne, 1965. Reissued as The lost writings, Gallimard, 1974, with an afterword by Louis Aragon.
• Coups d'État in literature, followed by examples from the Bible and ancient authors, Gallimard, 1970.
• The entrance to the bay and taking the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1711, a tragi-comedy,followed by The unknown is not anything, dialogue with Roland Barthes
  Roland Barthes
  Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism, anthropology and...
  
  , EFR, 1973.
• Who are the contemporary, Gallimard, 1975.
• Lord B, a novel in letters, with conversations, Gallimard, 1977.
• Ode to hasten the coming of Spring, Gallimard, 1978. Reissued in paperback "Poetry", Gallimard, 2008, with a short bio-bibliographic record and a long preface of Omar Berrada.
• The wig of the old Lenin,tragi-comedy, Gallimard, 1980.
• Digraph, 1974–1981, Flammarion, 1981.
• Tomb of Mr. Aragon, Gallimard, 1983. Reissued in paperback "Poetry", Gallimard, 2008, withOde.
• The Wreck of the Medusa, heroic comedy, Gallimard, 1986.
• The carnage to Pythagoras, occasional poem in four acts written to celebrate the founding of the French Republic, Gallimard, 1991.
• The love of parliament, praised Mr. Burattoni sitting on the tomb of Virgil and drawing, Gallimard, 1993.
• The place rider, novel, Gallimard, 1996.
• Aragon "First I read !", Gallimard, collection" Discoveries "", 1997.
• The death of the beloved tomb, Stock, 1998. Reissued in paperback "Poetry", Gallimard, 2008, withOde.
• Olivier Debre, the theater of painting ..., Fragments Editions, 2000.
• N Y Meccano, Gallimard, 2001.
• With Aragon. 1970–1982, interviews with Francis Cremieux, Gallimard, 2003.
• Aragon, the man with the glove, Le Temps des Cerises, 2005.
• The Journey to Jupiter and beyond, perhaps, Gallimard, 2006.
• Artemis, fox hunting, wild boar, deer and wolf, Gallimard, 2007.
• The Theater of the sky. A reading of Rimbaud, Gallimard, 2009.

External links

• "Jean Ristat", Loser's Guide, September 25, 2008
• "Qui est le contemporain? Jean Ristat", Neophilologus, Springer Netherlands, ISSN 0028-2677, Issue Volume 88, Number 4, October, 2004
• Les Lettres Françaises online edition.