Jean Ristat (1 June 1943 – 2 December 2023) was a French poet and writer.

Life and career

Jean Ristat founded the magazine collection Digraph in 1974, as suggested by his professor of philosophy, Jacques Derrida, which he then put to the recent essay on Plato's Pharmacy (see the supplement to the edition of 1974). Ristat was until his death the director of French Letters, French literary supplement of the daily L'Humanité. Ristat was also responsible for publishing the complete writings of Louis Aragon, for whom he was the literary executor. Ristat died on 2 December 2023, aged 80.

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