Editions de Minuit
Les Éditions de Minuit is the name of a French publishing house based in Paris . The publishing house was founded in 1941 during the German occupation by the French writers Vercors and Pierre de Lescure to print Resistance pamphlets . Until the liberation of Paris on August 25, 1944, the publishing house worked underground. The first book that the Éditions de Minuit published was Vercors' short story The Silence of the Sea ( Le silence de la mer ), which is still considered the standard work of the French Resistance today.
The most famous literary “school” that this publishing house had its home is the nouveau roman . The publisher published, among other things, the work of Samuel Beckett .