Alan Sheridan

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Alan Sheridan (1934 - 2015) was an English author and translator.

Life

Born Alan Mark Sheridan-Smith, Sheridan studied English at

Lycée Henri IV and Lycée Condorcet.[1] Returning to London, he briefly worked in publishing before becoming a freelance translator. He translated works of fiction, history, philosophy, literary criticism, biography and psychoanalysis by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget and many others. He was the first to publish a book in English on Foucault's work and also wrote a biography of André Gide
.

Sheridan occasionally contributed to the London Review of Books in the 1980s.[2]

Works

Translations

(incomplete list)

Novels

  • Vacation, 1972
  • Time and Place, 2003

Other

  • Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth (1980)
  • André Gide: A Life in the Present (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999)

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