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Michel Orcel

Michel Orcel (born 1952, in Marseille) is a contemporary French writer, publisher and psychoanalyst.

Michel Orcel

1952 (age 71–72)

Biography[edit]

After studying classical literature at the Jesuits in Marseille, Michel Orcel graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Public Service department., class 1974),[1] he gave up his preparation studies to the ENA and moved to the Sorbonne: he obtained a master's degree in philosophy under the direction of Claude Tresmontant) and a DEA in Islamology under the direction of Roger Arnaldez, he finally defended a doctoral thesis in Literature and Human Sciences (Italian Studies, directed by Mario Fusco[2]) and obtained in 1996 his authorization to direct doctoral research (University of Tours).[3]


At the same time, he began a career as a literary journalist and music critic at VOGUE, Avant-Sène Opéra, etc.


Orcel was a researcher at the European University Institute at Florence in 1976–1977 (seminars of teachers Charles Wilson and Alphonse Dupront[4]) and resident at the Académie de France à Rome.[5] He was a lecturer at Rennes (1993–1997), where he founded a chair in the history of Italian opera.


After having animated for years, with Alain de Gourcuff, the magazine and the editions de L'Alphée,[6] in 2015, he founded the ARCADES AMBO publishing house.[7]

Psychoanalysis[edit]

Trained in Paris and subsequently analysed by Jean-Pierre Maïdani Gérard (SPF, EPCI), Manuel Garcia Barroso (SPP),[8] and Kathleen Kelley-Lainé (SPP),[9] he practiced in Paris and Marrakech. He is a practicing member of the Société de psychanalyse freudienne (SPF).[10]

Essays[edit]

An Italianist, Orcel gave essential essays on Leopardi and the dark side of Italian literature. (Italie obscure), as well as on Verdi, of whom he is the most recent French biographer.[11] In the field of Islamology, in addition to his travel books, he published in 2011 De la dignité de l'islam. Réfutation de quelques thèses de la nouvelle islamophobie chrétienne ("On the dignity of Islam. Refuting some of the theories of the new Christian Islamophobia"). Although regretting that this essay is similar to a controversial "pamphlet", the critics nevertheless welcome a useful book that presents a nuanced reading of the Quran.[12] This book was followed by a much more neutral essay: L'Invention de l'islam, which provides an update on the traceable origins of this religion.[13] Michel Orcel is also working on the emblematic, and in 2016 published Volume I of an article on the subject: Dictionnaire raisonné des devises (in coll. with Alban Pérès, éditions ARCADES AMBO, 2017), which lists and illustrates nearly 2,700 mottos.

Literature[edit]

As an author of fiction (poetry, novels), essays, encyclopedic works, translations, Orcel has received the following awards: "Diego Valeri" (Italy), "Nelly Sachs", and "Jules Janin" prizes of the Académie française[14] as well as the "Ortensia" prize of the S.I.D.E.F (Società Italiana dei Francesisti). In 2015, Michel Orcel had a "museum-book" published. : Le Val de Sigale. Pays d'Esteron et de Chanan à travers six siècles d'histoire (ARCADES AMBO). In November 2016 he published La Destruction de Nice at Pierre Guillaume de Roux editions[15] as well as a booklet of translations from various languages Ô nuit pour moi si claire at the Dogana (Geneva).

Trivia[edit]

Michel Orcel is a member of the Scientific Committee of the "Rivista Internazionale di Studi Leopardiani" (RISL),[16] member of the "Association des Traducteurs Littéraires de France" (ATLF), member of the "Société Française d'Héraldique et de Sigillographie" (SFHS)[17] and founder of the journal Recherches romanes et comparées in 1997. He was promoted a Commander to the Order of the Star of Italy in 2009.[18] A candidate in René Girard's chair at the Académie française during the election on 17 November 2016, Michel Orcel obtained 3 votes in the first round, against 3 for Gonzague Saint Bris and 11 for Daniel Rondeau. This election, which did not end up in a majority result, was considered "blank" and postponed to a later date.[19] This second election did not yield any majority results.

Le Théâtre des nues, L'Alphée, Paris, 1981

Les Liens, L'Alphée, Paris, 1982

Élégie, suivi de Parva domus, La Dogana, Geneva, 1984

Destin, , Cognac, 1987

Le Temps qu'il fait

Langue mortelle, foreword by , L’Alphée, Paris, 1987

Jean Starobinski

Odor di femina, Le temps qu'il fait, Cognac, 1989

N. N. ou L’amour caché, Grasset, Paris, 1989

Trois guerriers plus un, Le temps qu’il fait, Cognac, 1993

Le Sentiment du fer, Grasset, Paris, 1994

Histoire d'une ascension, Le temps qu'il fait, Cognac, 1996

Italie obscure, Librairie Belin, Paris, 2001

Verdi. La vie, le mélodrame, Grasset, 2001

Les Larmes du traducteur, Grasset, Paris, 2002

Voyage dans l’Orient prochain, La Bibliothèque, Paris, 2004

Napoléon Promenade, Ed. du Rocher, Paris, mai 2007

Le Livre des devises, Le Seuil, Paris, 2009

De la dignité de l'islam. Réfutation de quelques thèses de la nouvelle islamophobie chrétienne, Bayard, Paris, 2011; réédition ARCADES AMBO, Paris-Nice, 2015

L'invention de l'islam. Enquête historique sur les origines, Perrin, Paris, 2012

Jardin funeste, ARCADES AMBO, Paris-Nice, 2015.

Le Val de Sigale. Pays d'Esteron et de Chanan à travers six siècles d'histoire, ARCADES AMBO éd., Paris-Nice, 2015.

La Destruction de Nice, proses, Pierre-Guillaume de Roux éditeur, Paris, 2016.

Dictionnaire raisonné des devises (volume I), in collaboration with Alban Pérès, ARCADES AMBO éd., Nice, 2017.

"Michel Orcel" in Dictionnaire de poésie de Baudelaire à nos jours, , Paris, 2001

PUF

J.-P. Richard, Terrains de lecture, , Paris, 1996

Éditions Gallimard

J. Schwarz, Le Passage ou l'itinéraire d'un passeur en métamorphose dans "Les Larmes du traducteur" de Michel Orcel et "La Route de San Giovanni" d'Italo Calvino, mémoire de maîtrise, Paris III, June 2003.

Le Phénix de la consolation, in La Quinzaine littéraire, No 651, 16–31 July 1994

Bernard Simeone

B. Simeone, Une splendide errance, in La Quinzaine littéraire, No 769, 1630 November 2000

B. Simeone, Verdi pessimiste et secret, in Tageblatt-Bücher/Livres, Luxembourg, 16 February 2001

Personal website

Michel Orcel (6 July 2012). . Retrieved 12 September 2017.

"La vérité de l'islam"

. 21 April 2013.

"Relecture des sources de l'islam avec Michel Orcel, Radio France Internationale"

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"Lexnews, Interview de Michel Orcel, à propos de La beffa di Buccari de D'Annunzio"

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"Éditions Acardes Ambo"