François Maspero

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François Maspero
François Maspero
François Maspero
Born(1932-01-19)19 January 1932
Paris, France
Died11 April 2015(2015-04-11) (aged 83)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Author, journalist
Political partyFrench Communist Party[citation needed]
Parent

François Maspero (19 January 1932, in

Ten Days that Shook the World, among others.[2] He was awarded the Prix Décembre
in 1990 for Les Passagers du Roissy-Express.

Biography

François Maspero was born in 1932.

Egyptologist
.

François Maspero opened a book store in the

Latin Quarter
in 1955, at the age of 23.

Éditions Maspero

In 1959, in the middle of the

anti-colonialist perspective, and on contestation of the French Communist Party's unreformed Stalinism. Maspero published Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961), censored by the French authorities, with a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as Fanon's L'An V de la Révolution algérienne. Maspero published other testimonies on Algeria, including investigations of the use of torture by the French Army
, also censored. Besides facing lawsuits as a result of his courageous publishing decisions, Maspero was the target of bomb attacks.

He republished

anarchist movement in France (1880–1914). In the years 1967-82 he published the "Petite Collection Maspero" (Little Maspero Series).[3] In 1983, Maspero publishing house was transformed into the Éditions La Découverte, later bought by Vivendi Universal Publishing, later Editis
.

After 1983

In the 1990s and 2000s François Maspero published several reportages for the French newspaper Le Monde. In 2001, for example, he produced a long narrative about a summer passed on the Algerian coast with the title "Deux ou trois choses que j’ai vues de l’Algérie".[4] In 2009, at the 50th anniversary of the Éditions Maspero publishing house, an exposition in honor of Francois Maspero, "François Maspero et les paysages humains, " was organized by Bruno Guichard (Maison des Passages, Lyon) and Alain Léger (Librairie À plus d'un titre, Lyon) in the Musée de l'Imprimerie.[5] In parallel to this exposition a book was edited as an exposition catalogue and Festschrift to honor live and work of Maspero. The title of the book was "François Maspero et les paysages humains" and it was edited by Bruno Guichard, Julien Hage and Alain Leger.[6]

Maspero was criticized by Situationists such as Guy Debord, who used the term "masperize" to describe the falsification or corruption of a text, for instance by deleting segments from a quote without marking them.[7][8]

Works

Selected books published by François Maspero

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ Simon, Catherine (4 April 2015). "L'éditeur François Maspero est mort". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b Author biography in Cat's Grin (London: Penguin, 1988)
  3. ^ Petite Collection Maspero (Éditions Maspero) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  4. LeMonde.fr
    .
  5. ^ Edwy Plenel (10 October 2009). "François Maspero, homme livre, homme libre" (in French). Les carnets libres d'Edwy Plenel - Blogs Medias Part on Mediapart.
  6. LeMonde.fr
    . description of the book "François Maspero et les paysages humains "
  7. ^ "From Guy Debord To Jean Maitron, Director of the French Institute of Social History and its journal, The Social Movement, 24 October 1968...", accessed 23 February 2007.
  8. ^ http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/02/06/1627201&mode=nested&tid=9 Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine accessed 23 February 2007

Further reading

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