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THE
FIRST TITLE
René Daumal, Correspondance, I, 1915-1928
(may 1992) |
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IN
BRIEF
Some notes, like the Cahiers Albert Camus, that
first published Le Premier homme, are not included
in the "Cahiers de la NRF". |
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Philippe
Jaccottet is the only living author included in
the imprint: in 1994 for his collected chronicles
and in 2002 for his correspondence with his friend
and fellow countryman, Gustave Roud. |
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The
Gallimard backlist has a wealth of texts relating
to the history of literature. Indeed there are some
300 correspondences. The major imprints affected
are: "Blanche", "Du Monde entier",
"Le Promeneur", "Arcades". |
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Mon
Journal by Pierre Louÿs is a rare excursion
of "Cahiers" into the late 19th Century.
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The
memoirs of Simone de Saint-Exupéry, the writer's
sister, is the only title to date to have been reprinted
in "Folio". |
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Such
a unique imprint had to have a fitting cover. The
"Cahiers" cover, treated in two colours
(black with one colour) is characterised by a large
type setting with a tight line width for the mention
of author and title, and a changing colour for the
mention of the imprint . The colour of paper selected
for the printing of the cover has become lighter
since 1992 and is now chiné grey. |
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A
SHORT HISTORY
As early as 1927 the Editions
de la Nouvelle Revue française published
their first series of notes devoted to the
work of Marcel Proust, who had died six years
earlier. The aim, at the time, was to turn
into bookform the publications that, from
time to time, the NRF devoted to selected
deceased great authors. Seven Proust notes
were published between 1927 and 1935. Other
series came out after the war, as great "historical"
figures on the Gallimard backlist disappeared:
Albert Camus, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau,
André Gide, Jean Giono....
The growing number of notes, so
helpful in getting to know the works, and
the quite legitimate wish to include a wider
group of authors led to the creation of a
separate imprint. The NRF was indeed the point
of convergence of most of the authors, either
great 20th Century classics (Aragon, Montherlant,
Céline, Saint-John Perse, Yourcenar,
Queneau, Bataille ...) or critics, essay writers
and editors involved in its history (Groethuysen,
Jaccottet, Suarès, Thibaudet, and,
of course, Jean Paulhan). The wish for unification
was proof of greater renown and clout on the
bookshelf, and prompted Antoine Gallimard
to create the imprint in 1922, together with
the Céline-like Jean-Pierre Dauphin,
who was then in charge of the archives of
the publishing house. This confirmed that
the history of literature, like criticism,
was a special field for the publisher, backlist
permitting, of course.
The imprint alternates publishing
new material and reprints, which can be reprints
of old notes (the four volumes of the Cahiers
de la Petite Dame) as well as works previously
published under the "Blanche" imprint
(Remarques by Suarès, Mémoires
improvisées by Claudel) or "Les
Essais". Usually, the development
of the volumes is handled by specialist editors:
transcription, annotation, appendices, and
introduction. But making the original texts
easily accessible a priority, points to serious
and efficient specialist publishing, based
on limiting the scope. However scholarly the
imprint may be (see the work of Lionel Follet
for his new edition of La Défense
de l'infini by Aragon), it does not publish
strictly speaking scholarly works. The outskirts
of classical works can also involve a wider
public. |
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THEY
HAVE THEIR OWN "CAHIERS DE LA NRF"...
Aragon — Marc Allégret —
Marcel Arland — Jacques Audiberti —
Georges Bataille — Yvon Belaval —
Alain Bosquet — André Breton —
Roger Caillois — Albert Camus —
Louis-Ferdinand Céline — Charles-Albert
Cingria — Paul Claudel — Jean Cocteau
— René Daumal — Robert Desnos
— Jean Dubuffet — Guy Dumur —
André Gide — Jean Giono —
Bernard Groethuysen — Jean Guéhenno
— Philippe Jaccottet — André
Lebey — Pierre Louÿs — André
Malraux — Jacques et Raïssa Maritain
— Roger Martin du Gard — Henry de
Montherlant — Paul Morand — Brice
Parain — Jean Paulhan — Marcel Proust
— Jacques Prévert — Maurice
Sachs — Raymond Queneau — Jacques
Rivière — Romain Rolland —
Gustave Roud — Monique Saint-Hélier
— Saint-John Perse — Jacques Schiffrin
— Jean Schlumberger — Philippe Soupault
— André Suarès — Jean
Tardieu — Albert Thibaudet — Henri
Thomas — Elsa Triolet — Paul Valéry
— Maria Van Rysselberghe — Marguerite
Yourcenar… |
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AWARDS
AND PRIZES
Prix Sévigné : Daniel Durosay
for his edition of L'Enfance de l'art. Correspondances
avec Élie Allégret (1886-1896) by
André Gide (1998) ; Michel Bressolette and
René Mougel for their edition of Correspondance
(1925-1939) between Jacques Maritain, Raïssa
Maritain and Maurice Sachs (2004).
Prix du meilleur livre sur le théâtre
2002 : Colette Dumur for L'Expression théâtrale
de Guy Dumur |
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