Minuit - Paperback

by Steve Spalding (Author)

"How does a novel accrue value? How do certain new and unknown authors and their works make their way from obscurity into the pantheon of the greats, or-at least--the firmament of the stars?" Minuit examines the role played by French publishing house Editions de Minuit in altering the conception of literary France, not once but twice. The history of Editions de Minuit is an integral part of the history of the literary field; in Minuit, Spalding's work captures many of the cultural dimensions of literary production and dissemination at the height of France's post-war intellectual and literary effervescence, and again, in the more recent period, when Minuit became the vehicle for French literature's 'postmodern' turn.

Author Biography

Steven D. Spalding is an Independent Scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and a D.E.A. from the Université de Paris VIII. His writing has touched on topics as varied as French travel writing, the cinema of Jacques Tati, French sci-fi comics, Marguerite Duras, and Pierre Bourdieu. He was editor of the special section on Railways and Urban Cultures in Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies (2014) and co-edited the books Transnational Railway Cultures (2022), Trains, Mobility and Culture (2012) and Trains, Literature and Culture (2012).