Minuit
Published on 6. June 2023
250 pages
978-1-62897-420-1 (ISBN)
Description
"How does a novel accrue value? How do certain new and unknown authors and their works make their way from obscurity into the pantheon of the greats, or-at least-the firmament of the stars?" Minuit examines the role played by French publishing house Editions de Minuit in altering the conception of literary France, not once but twice. The history of Les Editions de Minuit is an integral part of the history of the literary field; in Minuit, Spalding's work captures many of the cultural dimensions of literary production and dissemination at the height of France's post-war intellectual and literary effervescence, and again, in the more recent period, when Minuit became the vehicle for French literature's 'postmodern' turn.
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Steven D. Spalding is an Independent Scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and a D.E.A. from the Université de Paris VIII. He is editor of the Transfers special section on Railways and Urban Cultures (2014) and co-editor of the books Trains, Mobility and Culture (2012) and Trains, Literature and Culture (2012).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Toward a Sociology of Literary Value
- Chapter I. Minuit's Failed Venture in Committed Literature
- 1. Minuit and the Literary Resistance
- 2. Paulhan, Doyen of the Literary Resistance
- 3. Sartre and the Vichy Syndrome
- Chapter II. Lindon Robbe-Grillet and the Critics, 1950-1955
- 1. Lindon's New Minuit
- 2. Publisher of Beckett
- 3. Publisher of Critique
- 4. Minuit's Difference
- 5. Critics: Robbe-Grillet and Barthes
- Chapter III. Publishers of the New Novel, 1955-1960
- 1. Robbe-Grillet, Editor and Publicist
- 2. Publishing the New Novel
- Chapter IV. Minuit and the Institutionalization of the New Novel, 1962-1967
- 1. The Rising Star of the New Novel
- 2. Duras's Moderato Cantabile in Translation
- 3. Minuit and the Sciences Humaines
- 4. Criticism and the Canonization of the New Novel
- Chapter V. Minuit, Succession, and the "Young Authors"
- 1. Minuit's "Lost Generation"" and the Search for an Avant-Garde
- 2. Retelling Minuit and the New Novel
- 3. Minuit Authors Young and Old
- Conclusion. Minuit in the New Millenium
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Back Cover
