Frédérick Tristan
Jean-Paul Frédéric Tristan Baron was a French writer.
Biography
Tristan was born in Sedan, Ardennes, France, on 11 June 1931. He was sent on a mission to Laos, North Vietnam, South Vietnam and China.In 2000, he explained his work in a series of interviews with the critic Jean-Luc Moreau.
In 1952, he participated in research conducted by Joel Picton. From 1983 to 2001 he was professor of early Christian and Renaissance iconography at ICART. Tristan is one of the authors named in Jean-Luc Moreau's 1992 manifesto and anthology La Nouvelle Fiction, alongside Hubert Haddad, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, François Coupry, Jean Levy, Patrick Carré, and Marc Petit. All seven founding members of this literary movement share a literary heritage of German Romanticism, the English Gothic novel, speculative philosophy, surrealism, spiritualism and the oriental tale to explore Romantic themes such as the soul, fate, the world of dreams, myth and invisible realms.
All of his archives are available at IMEC.
Tristan was married to, a specialist on poet Giambattista Marino. He died in France, on 2 March 2022, at the age of 90.
Awards
- 1983 Prix Goncourt, for Les Égarés
- 2000 Grand Prize for lifetime achievement Société des gens de lettres
Works
Les Égarés, éditions Fayard Naissance d'un spectre, éditions Fayard Le Singe égal du ciel, éditions Fayard La Geste serpentine, éditions Fayard Balthasar Kober, éditions Fayard Stéphanie Phanistée, éditions Fayard Dieu, éditions Fayard l'Univers et Madame Berthe, éditions Fayard Les Obsèques prodigieuses d'Abraham Radjec, éditions Fayard Tao le haut voyage, éditions Fayard L'Énigme du Vatican, éditions Fayard Monsieur l'Enfant et le cercle des bavards, éditions Fayard Dernières nouvelles de l'Au-delà, éditions Fayard Le Chaudron chinois, éditions Fayard Christos, enquête sur l'impossible, éditions Fayard- ''L'Infini singulier''
Poetry
L’OstiaqueL’Anthrope, 1951-1953 Passage de l'ombre Encres et écritures. La FinestraEssays
Les Premières Images chrétiennes: du symbole à l'icôneLes Sociétés secrètes chinoisesLe Monde à l'envers, l'Œil d'HermèsAnagramme du vide- ''Don Juan le révolté''