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Les Éditions de Minuit
Founded1941
FounderJean Bruller and Pierre de Lescure
Country of originFrance
Headquarters locationParis
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.leseditionsdeminuit.fr

Les Éditions de Minuit (French: [lez‿edisjɔ̃ minɥi], Midnight Press) is a French publishing house. It was founded in 1941, during the French ResistanceofWorld War II, and is still publishing books today.[as of?]

History[edit]

Les Éditions de Minuit was founded by writer and illustrator Jean Bruller and writer Pierre de Lescure (1891–1963) in 1941 in Paris, during the German occupation of northern France (by November 1942, German forces occupied all of France). At the time, the media and all forms of publishing were controlled and censored by the Nazi occupiers. Les Éditions de Minuit was started to circumvent the censorship. It was an underground publisher until the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944.

Le Silence de la mer (The Silence of the Sea) (1942) by co-founder Bruller (who wrote under the pseudonym Vercors) was the first book published. Distribution, as with other Resistance texts, was based on being passed from person to person.

Le Silence de la mer was followed in 1943 by Chroniques interdites (banned newspaper columns, various authors), L'Honneur des poètes (The Honour of poets) poetry collected by Paul Éluard, Le cahier noir (The Black Notebook)byFrançois Mauriac, and Le musée Grévin (The Grévin Museum)byLouis Aragon.

A small group of printers joined Bruller and de Lescure, and together they risked imprisonment and death to publish works by some of France's greatest authors (who wrote under pseudonyms). The authors included Paul Éluard, Louis Aragon, Jacques Maritain, François Mauriac, Jean Paulhan, André Chamson, André Gide, and the first unabridged French translation of John Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down (Nuits noires).

After the war, when Les Éditions de Minuit was able to operate openly, it continued to publish books but struggled in the early postwar years to become financially stable. The publishing house was directed by Jérôme Lindon from 1947 until his death in 2001. His daughter, Irène Lindon, succeeded him.

In the 1950s, the company began to be more successful. Lindon was the first to publish several novels by Samuel Beckett, who wrote in French as well as English, and was resident in France at the time. Other authors published include Monique Wittig, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras and Robert Pinget, who constituted the backbone of the Nouveau roman literary movement. It also published Henri Alleg's La Question (1958) on the use of torture by the French Army during the Algerian War (1954–62). The book was censored.

From the late 1970s to the mid-80s, Lindon and the Éditions de Minuit promoted several young French authors such as Jean Echenoz, soon joined by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (from Belgium), Jean Rouaud, Marie NDiaye, Patrick Deville, Éric Chevillard, and lately by Laurent Mauvignier and Julia Deck. These have been classified under the tag of "Style Minuit", characterized by a certain writing renewal (partially influenced by the Nouveau Roman), based on minimalist formalism mixed to an elaborated style.[1][2][3]

From its foundation to 2015, the Éditions de Minuit have, through their authors, won two Nobel Prize in Literature (Samuel Beckett and Claude Simon), three Prix Goncourt (The LoverbyMarguerite Duras, I'm OffbyJean Echenoz and Fields of GlorybyJean Rouaud), seven Prix Médicis, one Prix Renaudot and three Prix Femina.[3]

21st century[edit]

The style of the front covers of Les Éditions de Minuit books is nearly as spare as the wartime edition of Le Silence de la mer. The only decoration is a blue border and the symbol of Les Éditions de Minuit: a star and the letter "m".

Book series[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bertrand, Michel; Germoni, Karine; Jauer, Annick (2014). Existe-t-il un style Minuit ?. Université de Provence. p. 274. ISBN 978-2853999397.
  • ^ Voisset-Veysseyre, Cécile (6 January 2015). "Peut-on parler d'un style Minuit?". Slate.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  • ^ a b Assouline, Pierre (27 October 2014). "Y a-t-il vraiment un " style Minuit " ?". La République des livres. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
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