Rafaël Pividal

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. 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.

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. by Pascal Kané: himself.