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.Gabriel Cohn-Bendit, Nous sommes en marche, Flammarion, 1999, pages 111-112. 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.Cf. SUDOC
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.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". by Pascal Kané: himself.
References
External links Hommage à Raphaël Pividal on Carré d'art magazine Raphaël Pividal on Encyclopedia Universalis Raphaël Pividal on Babelio Obituary