François Maspero

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François Maspero

François Maspero (born January 19, 1932 in Paris , France , † April 11, 2015 there ) was a French author , journalist , publisher and translator .

Life

Maspero comes from a family who emigrated from Italy to France in the 19th century. His ancestors include his grandfather Gaston Maspero , who was an Egyptologist . His father Henri Maspero , who was a sinologist professor at the Collège de France , died in the German Buchenwald concentration camp . His mother survived the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp north of Berlin .

Maspero was a member of the French Communist Party (PCF) in the 1950s , which he left after the 1956 popular uprising in Hungary . He subsequently joined the Trotskyists and got to know African liberation fighters such as Amilcar Cabral from Guinea-Bissau and the Brazilian Mário de Andrade .

A few weeks after the start of the Algerian War in 1955, Maspero and others founded the La Joie de lire bookstore in the Latin Quarter of Paris , from which the Editions Maspero publishing house emerged in 1959 . In the middle of the Algerian war and the years of the liberation of the colonies of Africa, Maspero published books by representatives of liberation ideologies, such as The Damned of this Earth by Frantz Fanon with a foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. The publisher also published reports on war crimes and torture in Algeria during the war years. This attitude earned him charges from his opponents and censorship proceedings. He was even bombed.

In the 1970s Maspero published books such as Mongo Betis Main basse sur le Cameroun: Autopsy d'une décolonisation or published a new edition of the book by the French Jean Maitron Histoire du mouvement anarchiste en France (1880-1914) . From 1978 to 1984 he published the magazine L'Alternative , which he founded , in which dissidents such as Václav Havel , Adam Michnik and Jürgen Fuchs published. In 1983 his publishing house passed into new hands and after a while it was renamed Éditions La Découverte .

In recent years Maspero has written books, including on political subjects, and has worked as a translator. He was found dead in his Paris apartment on April 11, 2015 at the age of 83.

Prizes and awards

Works

  • La Lutte pour autogestion et la révolution: Publications marxistes-révolutionaires, François Maspero, Paris 1968.
  • Introduction to René Burri : Che Guevara , Collection Photo Poche. Nathan, Paris 1977.
  • Le Sourire du chat , Roman. 1984
    • German: The Cat's Smile , Manholt, Bremen 1985 and Piper Series, Munich 1989.
  • Le figuier , novel. 1988
  • Les Passagers du Roissy-Express with photos by Anaïk Frantz, Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-02-012467-X .
    • German: Roissy-Express: Reise in die Pariser Vorstädte , Beck and Glückler, Freiburg 1993, ISBN 3-89470-124-2 .
  • with photographs by Klavdij Sluban: Balkans-Transit, chronique d'un voyage , 1997.
  • Les Abeilles et la Guépe , 2002 (autobiographical)
  • with photographs by Gerda Taro, L'ombre d'une photographe , Seuil, Paris 2016.

Published by François Maspero

  • Frantz Fanon: Les damnés de la terre , 1961.
  • Ernest Labrousse : Syndicalisme révolutionnaire et communisme. Les archives de Pierre Monatte , 1914-1924 . In Colette Chambelland (ed.), Jean Maitron (ed.): Bibliothèque socialiste vol. 12, anno 1968. 462 pages
  • Mongo Beti: Main basse sur le Cameroun: Autopsy d'une décolonisation , 1972, ISBN 2-7071-4172-0 .

literature

  • Collectif des éditions: François Maspero et les paysages humains . À plus d'un titre, La Fosse aux Ours, ISBN 978-2-35707-006-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François Maspero (1932-2015) . Obituary by Danilo Scholz in Merkur blog from April 17, 2015
  2. ↑ Link publisher. On the death of François Maspero in FAZ on April 14, 2015, page 12
personal data
SURNAME Maspero, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author, journalist, publisher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2015
Place of death Paris , France