Les Editions de Minuit: Purveyors of Propaganda

While claiming to be apolitical in its editorial strategy dedicated to opposing the censorship and thought control of the Nazi invaders and their Vichy cohorts, Les Editions de Minuit was in fact a partisan purveyor of Communist propaganda. Minuit played a subtle yet complex role in the mediation of...

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Published in:The French review 2001-03, Vol.74 (4), p.712-727
Main Author: Leff, Adam A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Censorship
Communism
France
French literature
French speaking and English speaking literatures
French speaking literatures
General points
History and sciences of litterature
History of literature
Literary criticism
Nazism
Political censorship
Propaganda
Publishing industry
Society and Culture
War
Writers
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Summary:While claiming to be apolitical in its editorial strategy dedicated to opposing the censorship and thought control of the Nazi invaders and their Vichy cohorts, Les Editions de Minuit was in fact a partisan purveyor of Communist propaganda. Minuit played a subtle yet complex role in the mediation of an intellectual response to the opposing and dominant Nazi discourse. I will argue that the dynamics of this publishing house and the changes in its editorial strategy can best be understood by reconstructing the social space in which all the persons who contributed to the production of Minuit's works found themselves.
ISSN:0016-111X
2329-7131