The poet and philosopher Michel Deguy, winner in 2020 of the Goncourt poetry, died Wednesday February 17 at the age of 91, we learned Thursday from the publishing house Gallimard.
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The causes of death were not specified by the publisher.
In October, he was awarded the literary prize Guez de Balzac - a richly endowed reward which is given only once and only - awarded by the French Academy.
Born May 23, 1930 in Paris into a family of industrialists, Michel Deguy devoted his work to defending poetry as a vital language against the commodification of the world.
He has always been involved in the march of the world, worrying in recent years about the future of thought and poetry, in a world of screens.
A review, collections of poems and essays
Founder in 1977 of the journal
Po&sie
(Belin), a reference publication for contemporary poetry, this great intellectual with an eternal cigarette tackled all fields of knowledge as a poet-philosopher, exploring the links between these two disciplines brought together in a “
thinking poetry
”.
Close to the philosopher Jacques Derrida, he participated in the reviews
Critique
and
Les temps modernes
, and chaired the International College of Philosophy from 1989 to 1995. He was also, for 25 years, a member of the Reading Committee of Gallimard.
Among his publications, numerous collections of poems (
Poèmes de la presqu'île
,
Gisant, Donnant
,
donne 1960-1980
,
A ce qui n'en fin pas, Desolatio
), essays (
L'Énergie du désespoir
,
La poetry n is not alone
,
Reopening after works
...), translations of Heidegger (
Approach to Hölderlin
) or the Greek philosopher Empedocles.