Minuit - Paperback

by Steve Spalding (Author)

An investigation into the formation of French literary culture through the lens of publishing house Editions de Minuit, responsible for the "New Novel" and "école de Minuit" which catapulted its authors to international status.

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).