Éric Marty

Éric Marty (born 3 January 1955) is a French intellectual, essayist, and emeritus professor at Paris Cité University. He was a professor of Contemporary French Literature at Paris Diderot University. He is the editor of the complete work of Roland Barthes.

Biography Between 1970 and 1973, Marty was active in the Trotskyist organisation Lutte Ouvrière. He passed the Agrégation in 1979 in modern literature, having studied at Lycée Condorcet and Paris Diderot University.

From 1980, he taught French literature, linguistics and philosophy at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. In 1985, he returned to France and defended his third cycle thesis at the Sorbonne, under the supervision of Robert Mauzi.

In 1988, he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research as a research fellow in the Institute of Modern Texts and Manuscripts, where he worked on the edition of André Gide's Journal for the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade as well as on the works of René Char and the theoretical texts of Roland Barthes.

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