Éditions du Seuil
Parent company La Martinière Groupe | (Média-Participations) | |
Founded | 1935 | |
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Country of origin | France | |
Headquarters location | Paris | |
Publication types | Books | |
Official website | www |
Éditions du Seuil (French pronunciation:
Description
Éditions du Seuil was the publisher of the
Similarly, Seuil's good relations with book retailers have allowed it to establish significant distribution activity, ensuring the circulation of the works of such publishers as
Éditions du Seuil has also performed significant activities in children's literature. The house has promoted and published many great French children's authors; in 2005 Éditions du Seuil was the first to offer to the public animated films included in their albums that were produced by the artists themselves, such as À Quai by Sara and Promenade d'un distrait, by Béatrice Alemagna.
History
In 1937, Éditions du Seuil was bought by Paul Flamand and Jean Bardet. In 1979 these two left the direction to Michel Chodkiewicz.
The leadership was subsequently ensured by Claude Cherki from 1989. Cherki was involved in the purchase of Seuil by La Martinière on 12 January 2004. Six months later he was obliged to resign as a result of his interest in this operation. Cherki was replaced by Pascal Flamand (Président-directeur général) and Olivier Cohen (publishing director). The latter created a subsidiary called L'Olivier. Following the purchase by La Martinière, the Volumen distribution company was created. Numerous logistical problems arose, and several editors left the publishing house.
In November 2005, Éditions du Seuil announced the arrival of Laure Adler to oversee its literature department. Olivier took back control of his publishing house L'Olivier. Points, a pocket subsidiary of Seuil, became a publisher in its own right. The house continued its policy of growth, amalgamating the publishers Danger Public and Petit à petit. Significant tension developed and in 2006 the editor Hervé Hamon (who had a loyal record of 20 publications with Seuil in the capacity of an author) left, declaring that the author was no longer at the centre of the operation.
In August 2006, the group announced a new director general, the journalist and writer
Collections
- The "bookstore of the 21st century" Hachette in 1985, Olender devised the "bookstore of the 20th century", which subsequently turned into the "21st century". It comprised 143 titles as of 2009. The authors who were first published by Hachette followed Olender to Seuil. The magazine Page des libraires presented the collection and its director as follows:
To the books of Paul Celan [...], Perec, Vernant, Pastoureau, Borges, Rancière, Tabucchi, Lydia Flem, Starobinski [...] are added the works of [...] Yves Bonnefoy, Pascal Dusapin and the final novel of François Maspero.[2]
Book series
- Champ Freudien
- Combats
- Fiction et Cie
- Histoire immédiate
- Microcosme: Ecrivains de toujours[3]
- Microcosme: Petit Planète[4]
- Microcosme: Maîtres Spirituels
- Microcosme: Le Rayon de la Science
- Microcosme: Solfèges
- Microcosme: Le Temps qui court
- Peuple et culture
- Point Virgule
- Points
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Hervé Serry, Les Éditions du Seuil: 70 ans d'histoire, Seuil, 2007, p. 15.
- ^ Olender : être contemporain de son présent, discussion of Maurice Olender with Olivier Renault, Page des libraires, March 2009.
- ^ Ecrivains de toujours (Seuil) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ Petit Planète (Microcosme (Seuil) book series list, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
Bibliography
- (in French) "Tant qu'il y aura des tomes", Les dossiers du Canard enchaîné, No. 93, October 2004.
External links
- (in French) Official site of Éditions du Seuil
- (in French) Éditions du Seuil in La République des Lettres journal
- (in French) Exhibition on Éditions du Seuil on the French Public Information Library website
- (in French) Catalogue of the bookshop of the 21st century