Editions du Seuil

The historic publishing house

Éditions du Seuil [ edisjɔ̃ dy sœj ] is a major French publisher based in the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge .

history

The publishing house was founded in 1935 by Henri Sjöberg and since 1937 led by Paul Flament (1909–1998) and Jean Bardet. The traditional publishing house was 27, rue Jacob in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. The outline of this house became a trademark . The rise of the publishing house began after the Second World War . Due to the commercial success of the Don Camillo and Peppone series , the publisher was able to afford to acquire the French rights to Alexander Issajewitsch Solzhenitsyn , Gabriel García Márquez and Italo Calvino ; The German Nobel Prize winners Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass were also published by du Seuil. The publishing house brought out authors of the social sciences like Roland Barthes and published authors of the Francophonie like Léopold Sédar Senghor .

Literally that of the weekly newspaper was Le canard enchaîné coined term Galligrasseuil , which in this case word the literary importance of three publishing caricatures, namely the Éditions Gallimard , the Éditions Grasset and the Editions du Seuil, especially in terms of their success in literary awards such as the Prix Goncourt .

Since 2004 he has been part of one of the 20 largest French publishers, the La Martinière Groupe .

Hervé Serry: Les Éditions du Seuil: 70 ans d'histoire. Seuil, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-02-097577-3 (review of 70 years of publishing history; catalog for an exhibition in Paris, French).

^ Lindon Mathieu: Paul Flament laisse le Seuil en deuil. Il dirigea la maison d'édition pendant plus de quarante ans. liberation.fr, August 6, 1998 (French), accessed January 31, 2013
^ John Calder: Obituary for Paul Flamant , independent.co.uk, August 8, 1998, accessed January 31, 2013