Minuit : Steven Spalding.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spalding, Steve, author.

Series:

Dalkey Archive scholarly series.

Dalkey Archive scholarly series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishers and publishing--France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Dalkey Archive, [2023]

Summary:

An investigation into the formation of French literary culture through the lens of publishing house Editions de Minuit, responsible for the "New Novel" and "école de Minuit" which catapulted its authors to international status.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Spalding, Steve Minuit

ISBN:

9781628974201

OCLC:

1375293734