Emmanuel Carrère, Mathieu Belezi, Serge Rezvani… The fever of reissue in bookstores – L’Express

Emmanuel Carrere Mathieu Belezi Serge Rezvani… The fever of reissue

Considering that a book did not have the success it deserves during its first edition; Take advantage of a news to put a work on the front of the stage; reissue it because it has become unavailable; relaunch it by surfing the new notoriety of its author; Enthusiastic about a writer whose original publisher has become disinterested; Publish a book at a lower cost but at a higher price than the original … There are multiple reasons (good or wrong) to bring out a work to believe the reissues that have multiplied in recent months with more or less happiness.

Here are some examples. Thus we saw Frédéric Martin, the boss of the tripod editions (today at the head of Robert Laffont) ignite for the iconoclast Mathieu Belezi. After having successfully published in 2022 Attack the earth and the sun (more than 90,000 copies sold), he reissued his previous novels, as The little king, published in 1999 by Phébus, Me, the glorious And Crocodiles time (at Flammarion in 2011 under the title The old madmen) or Emma Picard (Flammarion 2015). Philippe Rey, he was passionate about Light years by Serge Rezvani, who have been multi -registered since 1967 by various houses. With his new edition, he won the Renaudot Poche 2024 prize, the very first distinction for this 96 -year -old author!

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This “feminist burning” who had not met the deserved echo

Direction Le Gers, where Sylvie Martigny and Jean-Hubert Gailliot, the duo behind Tristam, came out in early January the first anticipation novel by Corinne Aguzou, The Revolution by womenpublished in 2007, convinced that this “feminist burning” did not meet the deserved echo because released at a time, long before Metoo, where feminism had a bad reputation. For the time being, success is long overdue. The bd arenas have set their sights on The incredible history of French literature Catherine Mory and Philippe Bercovicgi, whom they publish for the 3rd time, with a highlight on the banner of the names of Annie Ernaux, Romain Gary and Nathalie Sarraute.

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For their part, the all -new Editions de l’Eclaireur seize France SensiBle, from the deemed and regretted Pierre Sansot (1928-2005), prefaced by Olivier Mongin. Finally, Pol recovery The Behring Strait (1986), by Emmanuel Carrère, under the title Uchroniawhile Stock will publish on May 14, thirty years after its publication, I who have not known men of the Belgian writer and psychoanalyst Jacqueline Harpman (1929-2012). A post-apocalypse novel, in the form of a fable on the absurdity of the human condition, which is currently making a misfortune abroad. So why would it not be the same in France?

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