Robert Pinget

Robert Pinget (Geneva, July 19 1919 - Tours, August 25 1997) was a major avant-garde French writer, born in Switzerland, who wrote several novels and other prose pieces that drew comparison to Beckett and other major Modernist writers. He was also associated with the nouveau roman movement.

In 1962, Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six set eleven of his poems in a song cycle entitled "Pancarte pour Une Porte D'Entrée" (roughly translated as "Handbill for an entrance") for medium voice and piano, commissioned by the American Soprano and Arts Patron Alice Swanson Esty.

A translation of one of his best known works, "The Inquisitory" (1962), was recently republished by the Dalkey Archive Press.

Bibliography

Novels

*"Entre Fantoine et Agapa", (Jarnac, Ed. Tour de Feu, 1951), Ed. de Minuit (tr. "Between Fantoine and Agapa", 1982)
*"Mahu ou le matériau", (Paris, Robert Laffont, 1952), Ed. de Minuit (tr. "Mahu or The Material", 1966, 2005)
*"Le Renard et la boussole", (Paris, Gallimard, 1953), Ed. de Minuit
*"Graal flibuste", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1956
*"Baga", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1958 (tr. "Baga", 1984)
*"Lettre morte", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1959
*"La Manivelle", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1960
*"Clope au dossier", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
*"Ici ou ailleurs", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
*"Architruc", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
*"L'Hypothèse", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1961
*"Le Fiston", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1959
*"L'Inquisitoire", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1962 (tr. "The Inquisitory", 1982, 2003)
*"Autour de Mortin", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1965
*"Quelqu'un, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1965 (tr. "Someone", 1984)
*"Le Libera, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1968 (tr. "The Libera Me Domine", 1978)
*"Passacaille", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1969 (tr. "Passacaglia", 1978)
*"Identité, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1971
*"Abel et Bela", Ed. de Minuit, 1971, (Acte Sud, coll. "Répliques", 1992) (tr. "Abel and Bela", 1987)
*"Fable, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1971 (tr. "Fable", 1980)
*"Paralchimie", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1973
*"Nuit, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1973
*"Cette Voix", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1975 (tr. "That Voice", 1982)
*"L'Apocryphe", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1980 (tr. "The Apocrypha", 1986)
*"Monsieur Songe", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1982 (tr. "Monsieur Songe", 1988)
*"Le Harnais, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1984
*"Charrue, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1985
*"Un Testament bizarre", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1986 (tr. "A Bizarre Will", 1989)
*"L'Ennemi, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1987 (tr. "The Enemy", 1991)
*"Du Nerf, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1990 (tr. "Be Brave", 1994)
*"Cette Chose", de Robert Pinget et Jean Deyrolle, Paris, Deyrolle éditeur, (1967), 1990
*"Théo ou le temps neuf, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1991 (tr. "Theo or The New Era", 1994)
*"L'Affaire Ducreux et autres textes", Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1995
*"Tâches d'encre, Paris", Ed. de Minuit, 1997 (tr. "Traces of Ink", 2000)

Criticism in English

*"", by Robert Henkels, 1977

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20000119055601/http://www.pugzine.com/pug4/rip4.html Obituary in English]
* [http://www.argyro.net/colloque/pinget/biopinget.htm Biography, in French]
* [http://www.chez.com/pinget/index.html A comprehensive web site in French]