Rafaël Pividal Explained

Rafaël Pividal (born 1934 near Buenos Aires – 2 October 2006) was a French writer and philosopher.

Biography

Rafaël Pividal was the son of a French mother, a classical dancer, and an Argentinean father, a lawyer. Rafael's maternal grandmother was a well-known actress, Germaine Dermoz (1888–1966).

At the death of his father in 1944, Rafael and his mother found themselves in a great poverty. From the age of 14, he must give private lessons to earn a little money.

He attended secondary school in Buenos Aires and passed a French baccalaureate (1952); He then went to France to study philosophy. A student at the Sorbonne, he was part of a group which included Gabriel Cohn-Bendit, Lucien Sebag and Pierre Clastres.^[1] He was admitted at the agrégation of philosophy in 1959.

From 1964, he taught sociology of art at the Sorbonne. He supported his doctoral thesis (sociology) in 1995 and was thereafter habilited to direct thesis.^[2]

In parallel to his teaching, Rafaël Pividal was successively a member of the editorial boards of the Exit and Roman magazines and wrote numerous books.

Works

Doctoral thesis

• 1995:De la logique narrative, ou du sens et de la fonction de la fiction, Université Paris 5, under the direction of André Akoun

Fiction and essais

• 1963: Une paix bien intéressante, Éditions du Seuil
• 1969: Tentative de visite à une base étrangère, Seuil
• 1970: Plus de quartier pour Paris, Seuil
• 1972: Le Capitaine Nemo et la science, Éditions Grasset
• 1974: Émily et une nuit, Seuil
• 1976: La Maison de l’écriture, Seuil
• 1977: Pays sages, Rupture
• 1978: Le Mensonge - Chronique des années de crise, Ed. Encres,
• 1978: La Tête de Louis XVI, Rupture
• 1978: Un professeur d’américain,
• 1989: Le Pré-joli, Balland.
• 1980: Le Faux-prêtre,
• 1981: La Découverte de l’Amérique, Grasset
• 1985: La Montagne fêlée, Grasset
• 1986: Grotius, Grasset, (Prix Sainte-Beuve).
• 1989: Hugo, l’enterré vivant, Presses de la Renaissance
• 1989: Le Petit Marcel, Grasset
• 1991: Le Goût de la catastrophe, Presses de la Renaissance
• 1992: Les Aventures ordinaires de Jacques Lamare, Quai Voltaire
• 1993: 1994, Robert Laffont

Filmography

• 1992 - Hector Guimard, un architecte et ses folies.^[3] by Pascal Kané: himself.

External links

• Hommage à Raphaël Pividal on Carré d'art magazine
• Raphaël Pividal on Encyclopedia Universalis
• Raphaël Pividal on Babelio
• Obituary

Notes and References

1. Gabriel Cohn-Bendit, Nous sommes en marche, Flammarion, 1999, pages 111-112.
2. Cf. SUDOC
3. Argument appearing on the cover: "From a porcelain doorknob found at the marché aux puces, Rafael Pividal, writer, art lover, reconstructs the path of Hector Guimard, one of the Art Nouveau masters. From mansions to subway entrances and through this exceptional building, the Castel Béranger, the film tries to approach the process from this designer and mainly his work".