Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Jean-Jacques Pauvert (born April 8, 1926 in Paris , † September 27, 2014 in Toulon ) was a French publisher and author .
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Pauvert mainly published marginalized and suppressed writings in French literature, in particular those of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade . He also discovered a number of new talents such as Albertine Sarrazin , Jean Carrière , Hortense Dufour , Françoise Lefèvre , Brigitte Lozerec'h and Mario Mercier .
In 1942 the 15-year-old worked at Gallimard , where he met Jean Paulhan . After the Second World War he founded the Éditions du Palimugre and published texts by Sartre , Montherlant , Léautaud and Flaubert . Between 1947 and 1952 he edited Juliette , Justine , The 120 Days of Sodom and The Philosophy in the Boudoir by de Sade.
In 1954 he published the story of O by Pauline Réage through the mediation of Paulhan .
In 1956 there was a police investigation against Pauvert because of his publications by de Sade and Réage. In 1958 a youth ban was imposed on some of the books.
Between 1958 and 1983 Pauvert published the following works and authors:
- Dictionnaire de la langue française by Émile Littré in seven volumes (1956–1959)
- Georges Darien
- Georges Bataille
- André Breton
- Erckmann-Chatrian
- The complete work edition by Victor Hugo
- l'Histoire de l'art by Élie Faure
- Pierre Klossowski
- Raymond Roussel
- Charles Cros
- Albertine Sarrazin
- Sophie de Ségur
- Oskar Panizza
- Fulcanelli
- Eugène Canseliet
- Salvador Dalí
- CR Maturin
- René de Solier
- Monsieur Nicolas ou le cœur humain dévoilé from Restif de la Bretonne
- Honoré de Balzac
- Françoise Sagan
- The collage volumes and frottages by Max Ernst and the Ernst biography by Patrick Waldberg
In 1972 its author Jean Carrière received the Prix Goncourt for the novel L'Épervier de Maheux .
In 2004 he published his autobiography under the title La traversée du livre , which dates back to 1968. Pauvert died on September 27, 2014 at the age of 88 in a hospital in Toulon.
Bibliography by Pauvert as the author
- Anthologie historique des lectures érotiques , 5 volumes aux éditions Stock. Tome 5: De l'infini au zéro, 1985-2000 , publié en 2001
- Sade vivant , 3 volumes, éd. Robert Laffont, 1986–1990. Prix des Deux Magots ; German: The divine Marquis , 2 volumes, List Verlag, Munich 1991 ISBN 3-471-78426-8
- Nouveaux (et moins nouveaux) visages de la censure, suivi de l'Affaire Sade , éd. Les Belles Lettres, 1994
- L'Amour à la française, ou l'Exception étrange , éd. du Rocher, 1997
- Apollinaire et Monaco , éd. du Rocher, 1999
- La Littérature érotique , éd. Flammarion / Dominos, 2000
- La Traversée du livre , éd. Viviane Hamy, 2004
Web links
- Interview with Pauvert (not available)
- Jean Jacques Pauvert: Les mémoires du Diable
- Literature by and about Jean-Jacques Pauvert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entretien «Ma vie en texte» about Gonzaï
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Mayer: The lawyer of the Marquis de Sade. Obituary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on September 28, 2014 (accessed on September 28, 2014).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pauvert, Jean-Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French publisher and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 2014 |
| Place of death | Toulon |