Timothy MathewsTimothy Mathews is Emeritus Professor of French and Comparative Criticism at University College London. In his writing and translating he explores what relating to art can tell us about relating to people. In addition to Guillaume Apollinaire, he haswritten widely about twentieth and twenty-first century French Literature, comparative literature, and comparative approaches. He is co-translator with Luce Irigaray of her Everyday Prayers (2004), and with Delphine Grass of Michel Houellebecq, The Art of Struggle (2010). His translations of selected pages from Roland Barthes, Fragments d'un discours amoureux appear in a special issue of CounterText, (2023). His other most recent books are Alberto Giacometti, the Art of Relation (2014), and There and Not Here: Chronicles of Art and Loss (2022). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Academy of Europe, and Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. Read More Read Less