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Antoine Compagnon
Antoine Compagnon in 2015
Born (1950-07-20) 20 July 1950 (age 73)
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
Known forMember of the Académie Française

Antoine Compagnon (born 20 July 1950 in Brussels, Belgium) is a Professor of French Literature at Collège de France, Paris (2006–), and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York City (1985–).

Education[edit]

Compagnon studied at École Polytechnique (1970) and École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1975), and holds a Doctorate of Paris Diderot University (1985).

Career[edit]

Compagnon was a Fellow of the Fondation Thiers (1975-1978), taught at École Polytechnique (1978-1985), Institut français du Royaume-Uni, London (1980-1981), University of Rouen (1981-1985), was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1986, 1990), Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988),[1] Professor at University of Maine (France), Le Mans (1989-1990), visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (1994), Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University (1994-2006).

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997) and Academia Europaea (2006), and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2009). He received an Honorary Degree of King's College London (2010), HEC Paris (2012), and University of Liège (2013), and the Claude Lévi-Strauss Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (2011).

In 2012, Compagnon did a daily broadcast on France Inter, Un été avec Montaigne. The programme was published as a book which became a bestseller in 2013.[2][3] He has done several more Un été avec series, including Un été avec Baudelaire in 2014. In 2013, he curated a show of Proust's manuscripts from the Bibliothèque nationale de France at the Morgan Library.[4]

Publications[edit]

Compagnon edited Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (Gallimard, Folio, 1988), Sodome et Gomorrhe (Gallimard, Pléiade, 1988; Folio, 1989), Carnets, in collaboration (Gallimard, 2002); Albert Thibaudet, Réflexions sur la politique (Robert Laffont, Bouquins, 2007), Réflexions sur la littérature (Gallimard, Quarto, 2007); Charles Péguy, L’Argent (Équateurs, 2008); Paul Bourget, Le Disciple (Le Livre de Poche, 2010); Maurice Barrès, Mes cahiers (Équateurs, 2010).

References[edit]

  • ^ Thierry Clermont, "Montaigne sur toutes les plages", Le Figaro, 10 août 2013, p. 14.
  • ^ Alissa J. Rubin, "Press Adds ‘What if?’ to Five W’s in France", The New York Times, August 28, 2013.
  • ^ Edward Rothstein, "Proust, for Those With a Memory. Marcel Proust and 'Swann’s Way' at the Morgan Library", The New York Times, February 14, 2013.

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antoine_Compagnon&oldid=1223789041"

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