Jérôme Peignot
Encyclopedia
Jérôme Peignot is a French novelist, poet, pamphleteer, and an expert in typography
. The author of some thirty books, he was awarded the Prix Sainte-Beuve, took part in publishing the writings of Laure (his aunt Colette Peignot
), as well as a major anthology on "Typoésie". He is the grand-son of Georges Peignot, typographer and director of the foundry Deberny & Peignot
. He is also known for having launched the concept of acousmatic sound in the 1960s.
Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...
. The author of some thirty books, he was awarded the Prix Sainte-Beuve, took part in publishing the writings of Laure (his aunt Colette Peignot
Colette Peignot
Colette Peignot was a French author who is most known by the pseudonym Laure, but also wrote under the name Claude Araxe.She was profoundly affected by the deaths of her father, brothers and uncle during World War I...
), as well as a major anthology on "Typoésie". He is the grand-son of Georges Peignot, typographer and director of the foundry Deberny & Peignot
Deberny & Peignot
Deberny & Peignot was a French type foundry, created by the 1923 merger of Peignot foundry and the Laurent & Deberny foundry. It was bought by the Haas Type Foundry of Switzerland in 1972, which in turn was merged into D...
. He is also known for having launched the concept of acousmatic sound in the 1960s.
Select works
- 2010. Le gai savoir de la mort. (Paris: Éd. des cendres) (ISBN 978-2-86742-173-0)
- 2009 (ré-édition). Les jeux de l’amour et du langage (Paris: Rue des cascades). Essai.
- 2008. Les cent sonnets de Ker Borny. (Paris: Éd. des cendres) (ISBN 2867421608)
- 2005. Broyer du bleu, Paris: Éditions du Rocher, Paris (197 pages) (ISBN 2268056139)
- 2005 (J. Peignot & Marcel CohenMarcel CohenMarcel Samuel Raphaël Cohen was a French linguist. He was an important scholar of Semitic languages and especially of Ethiopian languages. He studied the French language and contributed much to general linguistics.- Life :...
, dir.). Histoire et art de l'écriture (Paris: Robert Laffont, coll. « Bouquins », 1179 pages) - 2004. Typoèmes (Paris: Seuil, 240 pages)
- 2001. Je vous donne de mes nouvelles (Paris: Éd. des cendres)
- 2000. Petit traité de la vignette (Paris: Imprimerie nationale).
- 1999. Laure. Une rupture (1934). Avec la participation d’Anne Roche. (Paris: Éd. des Cendres).
- 1996. Puzzle II (Belgique : Talus d’approche). Préface de Bernard Noël
- 1996. Le Petit Peignot (Paris: Éd. des Cendres).
- 1995. L'alphabet des Lettres, ou le petit hamburgefons (Paris: Imprimerie nationale).
- 1993. Un printemps à Pékin (Paris: Calmann-Lévy).
- 1993 (2005). Typoésie (Paris: Imprimerie nationale éditions).
- 1989. Pierre Leroux, inventeur du Socialisme (Paris: Klincksieck).
- 1988. Affiches-posters d’Air France, 1933-1983 (Paris: F. Hazan).
- 1988 (2005). Moïse ou la preuve par l’alphabet de l’existence de Iahvé. Petit essai d'épigraphie polémique (Paris: Jérôme Millon).
- 1986 (1990). Puzzle I (Paris: Âge d’homme).
- 1971. La Tour (Paris: Christian Bourgois).
- 1967. L’amour a ses princes (Paris: Gallimard)
- 1967. De l’écriture à la typographie (Paris: Gallimard, coll. "Idées")
- 1965. Grandeur et misère d’un employé de bureau (Paris: Gallimard).
- 1962. L’or des fous, Jérômiades III (Paris: Seuil). Prix Sainte-Beuve.
- 1959. Jérômiades II (Paris: Seuil).
- 1957. Jérômiades I (Paris: Seuil).