Mémoires d’éditeurs (XXe – XXIe siècles)
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2022
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Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset
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À partir d’un corpus d’une dizaine d’ouvrages (des éditeurs Belfond, Bordas, Buchet, Corti, Girodias, Laffont, Nadeau, Nyssen, Pauvert, Verny et Zylberstein), cet article esquisse une petite poétique des mémoires d’éditeurs, genre qui oscille entre autobiographie, histoire et portraits, et qui conjugue mémoire individuelle et mémoire collective. L’étude porte sur les différentes composantes et les topoï de ce type de récit : le récit de formation, les motifs de la passion pour la lecture et le livre comme objet, le récit de fondation, la description des tâches de l’éditeur (choix des manuscrits, accompagnement des auteurs, course aux prix littéraires…). Présentant une vision pragmatique de la production du livre, les mémoires d’éditeurs apportent un éclairage alternatif et précieux sur la littérature : contexte historique de sa production, conditions matérielles et financières de la création, stratégies auctoriales et éditoriales, rapports entre auteurs et éditeurs, et ils offrent une galerie de portraits dans laquelle les écrivains apparaissent sous un jour nouveau.
Based on a corpus of ten works (of the following publishers: Belfond,Bordas, Buchet, Corti, Girodias, Laffont, Nadeau, Nyssen, Pauvert, Verny and Zylberstein), this paper tries to define a small poetics of publishers’ memoirs, a genre which oscillates between an autobiography, a story and a portrait, and which mixes individual and collective memory. The study focuses on different components and topoï of this kind of narratives: a Bildungsroman, themes of passion for books and a book as an object, a foundation story, a description of a publisher’s tasks (choice of manuscripts, supporting authors, running for literary awards, etc.). Presenting a pragmatic view on the production of books, publishers’ memoirs offer a gallery of renewed portraits of different writers, as well as afford an alternative and interesting glance at literature, and in particular at: historical context of its production, material and pecuniary conditions of its creation, author’ and publishers’ strategies, relationships between authors and publishers.
Based on a corpus of ten works (of the following publishers: Belfond,Bordas, Buchet, Corti, Girodias, Laffont, Nadeau, Nyssen, Pauvert, Verny and Zylberstein), this paper tries to define a small poetics of publishers’ memoirs, a genre which oscillates between an autobiography, a story and a portrait, and which mixes individual and collective memory. The study focuses on different components and topoï of this kind of narratives: a Bildungsroman, themes of passion for books and a book as an object, a foundation story, a description of a publisher’s tasks (choice of manuscripts, supporting authors, running for literary awards, etc.). Presenting a pragmatic view on the production of books, publishers’ memoirs offer a gallery of renewed portraits of different writers, as well as afford an alternative and interesting glance at literature, and in particular at: historical context of its production, material and pecuniary conditions of its creation, author’ and publishers’ strategies, relationships between authors and publishers.
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mémoire, mémoires, autobiographie, édition, livre, écrivain, manuscrit, prix littéraires, memory, memoirs, autobiography, edition, book, writer, literary awards
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"Quêtes littéraires" 2022, nº 12, s. 258-270