Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine
The Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC) is an archive dedicated to research into the history of French press and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. For this purpose it collects, conserves and evaluates archives of authors, book publishers and magazines. The archive is divided into four categories:
- Over 350 bequests from French authors (e.g. Louis Althusser , Roland Barthes , Samuel Beckett , Albert Camus , Marguerite Duras , Michel Foucault , Jean Genet and Alain Robbe-Grillet );
- Publishers' archives;
- Archives of newspapers and magazines and those of associations or institutions.
The IMEC was founded on a private initiative in 1988 and officially opened in Paris in 1989. Due to space problems, it moved to the Abbaye d'Ardenne in 2004 , a former monastery near Caen that has been extensively restored for the purposes of the IMEC.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Institut Mémoires de l'Édition Contemporaine in Paris. Basic entry 1997. Sightings online archive, November 16, 2001, accessed on October 26, 2011 .
- ↑ Georg Eyring: A cathedral of reading. Zeit online, January 9, 1998, accessed October 26, 2011 .