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Top best sellers :
Jean-Paul Sartre. L'Existentialisme
est un humanisme (1986) : 600 000 ex.
Albert Camus. Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1985)
Sigmund Freud. Sur le rêve (1980)
Claude Lévi-Strauss. Race et histoire (1987)
Alain. Propos sur le bonheur (1985) |
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"Folio
essais" publishes a wide range of social
sciences subjects including classical philosophy
(Hegel, Kant, Nietzsche, Rousseau, Spinoza…),
history, aesthetics, criticism, anthropology…
The list divides into three categories of
texts: unpublished, drawn from outside publishers'
backlist or from Gallimard's own list. The
type of original publications is varied including
joint-authorship editions summing up the state
of research, syntheses and perspectives on
various aspects of research (cognitive science,
philosophy of science, spirituality), collections
of hitherto scattered texts (interviews with
Cortazar, Dumézil, Sollers, discussion
about Malraux and culture, studies (La
Démocratie imparfaite by Sadoun
and Donegani, Qu'est-ce que la philosophie
antique? by Pierre Hadot, Le Principe
de souveraineté by Gérard
Mairet, Sociologies de la modernité
by Danilo Martucelli, Philosophie de la
science contemporary by Roland
Omnès, L'Art de l'éloignement
by Thomas Pavel, Qu'est-ce que l'art abstrait?
by Georges Roque…), new editions of classical
philosophy texts and first editions in French
(L'Etonnement philosophique by Jeanne
Hersch). A careful acquisitions policy (La
Découverte, La Fabrique, Fayard, Minuit,
Robert Laffont, Le Cerf…) allows "Folio
essays" to include complementary works:
Pascal Boyer, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Rancière,
Trinh Xuan Thuan… and thus extend the
editorial projects of its various imprints
with current editions of social sciences.
Of the volumes drawn from the
backlist, "Blanche" is the general
imprint most represented, with over 10% of
the list (Beauvoir, Blanchot, Caillois, Merleau-Ponty,
Sarraute, Sartre…) followed by "Les
Essais" (Camus, Cioran, Eliade, Freud…),
"Connaissance de l'inconscient"
(Bettelheim, Freud, Searles, Pontalis, Winnicott…),
"NRF Essais" (Lipovetsky, Steiner),
"La Bibliothèque des Idées"
(Benichou, Debray…), "Témoins"
(Castaneda), les "Classiques" and
"Bibliothèque de philosophie",
"la Bibliothèque des sciences
humaines" (Gauchet, Lefort…) and
"Françoise Dolto". Three
titles from "Encyclopédie de la
Pléiade" have been reprinted in
several volumes, Histoire de la musique, Histoire
de la philosophie and Histoire des religions.
One third of the list consists of texts initially
published between 1962 and 1985 by François
Erval in "Idées" (Nietzsche,
Valéry), which was the first mass distribution
social science imprint in France. The imprint
has its own numbering system and is directed
by Eric Vigne. |
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Top best sellers :
Gilles Perrault. Notre ami le roi (1992)
: 85 000 ex.
Emmanuel Todd. Après l’empire (2004)
Gilles Perrault. Un contrat entre les générations (1991)
Ignacio Ramonet. Tyrannie de la communication (2001) |
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Founded
: 1985
Number of titles in the catalogue :
148
Number of authors published : 95
Number of new titles per year : 5
Number of copies sold to date : 1,5 million
Average selling price : 7.40 € |
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The
aim of "Folio actuel" is twofold :
observation of trends of modern life and study
of their impact on political and social life.
The imprint tries to cater to student needs,
especially with its policy of publishing new
editions and original material (39 leçons
d'économie contemporaine by Philippe
Simonot ; Traité des nouveaus
risques…). Renowned contemporary
society specialists have published their observations
and analyses in "Folio actuel" :
Gilles Kepel (Jihad), Edwy Plenel,
Ignacio Ramonet, Dominique Schnapper, Emmanuel
Todd, Raoul Vaneigem… Many publications
are co-edited with Le Monde, especially
since 1999, as part of the imprint "Le
Monde actuel", gathering original studies
by contributors to the famous newspaper. Illustrated
with many documents (articles, tables, charts)
these syntheses address the big issues of
today's world : Afghanistan, Corsica,
water management, the drug market, the media,
education… Also published in the imprint
since 1986 are Maryvonne Roche's annual albums,
L'Année dans le Monde. The imprint
has its own numbering system. |
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Top best sellers :
Orwell. La Ferme des Animaux (1994) : 40 000 ex
Grimm. Contes (1990)
Calvino. Contes italiens (1995)
Borges. Le Livre de sable (1990)
Goethe. Les Souffrances du jeune Werther (1990) |
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Founded : 1990
Number of titles in the catalogue :
174
Number of authors published : 110
Number of new titles per year : 7
Number of copies sold to date : 1,4 million
Average selling price : 8.90 € |
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"Folio
bilingue" offers a selection of great
works in English, German, Italian, Spanish,
Russian, and Portuguese (in that order according
to decreasing number of titles), presented
in a bilingual edition, with French and foreign
texts facing each other on a double page.
The editions are expanded with a new preface
(Pennac for Melville, Pontalis for Freud…),
notes and a set of illustrations. Literary
titles predominate with a preference for short
texts (tales, novellas and short stories)
from the twentieth century (Bernhard, Carpentier,
Cortazar, Dahl, Faulkner, Handke, Hemingway,
Moravia, Pasolini…). There are also a
few essays (four of Freud's works) and a large
selection of classical works (Cervantèe,
Dostoïevski, Gogol, Grimm, Goethe, Kleist,
Machiavel, Poe, Pushkin…). The series
has its own numbering system. |
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Top best sellers :
Eugène Ionesco. La Cantatrice chauve (1993) : 160 000 ex.
Eugène Ionesco. Rhinocéros (1999)
Albert Camus. Caligula (1933)
Jules Romains. Knock (1993)
Victor Hugo. Ruy Blas (1997) |
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Founded : 1993
Number of titles in the catalogue :
134
Number of authors published : 45
Number of new titles per year : 6
Sales to date : 2,4 millions
Average selling price : 5.50 € |
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Sorbonne
professor Jean-Yves Tadié, author of
several reference works on literature and
criticism, directs "Folio theatre".
The series publishes great plays of classical
and contemporary theatre. Each volume includes
an efficient critical framework and a history
of the staging of the play. Most of the French
works are from the seventeenth and twentieth
century (over one third: Labiche, Camus, Claudel,
Cocteau, Audiberti, Ionesco, Genet, Vitrac,
Sarraute…). Approximately half the list
is devoted to French theatre, followed by
Anglo-Saxon theatre with Shakespeare and German
language theatre with Schiller, Goethe, Hofmannsthal…
The series has its own numbering system. |
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Top best sellers :
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary (1972)
: 1,2 millions d'ex.
Honoré de Balzac. Le Père
Goriot (1972)
Stendhal. Le Rouge et le noir (1991)
Guy de Maupassant. Bel-Ami (1999)
Edgar Poe. Histoires extraordinaires (2004) |
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Founded : 1994 (also year the word 'classical'
appears on the cover)
Number of titles in the catalogue :
620
Number of authors published : 195
Number of new titles per year : 9
Sales to date : 53 millions
Average selling price : 5,60 € |
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"Folio
classique" collects the great works of
classical literature: a reliable text, a file
of information, a bibliography, notes, and
a general introduction. These are produced
with care, some titles being a paperback version
of the "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade"
edition. Since the 1990s the series has turned
towards a school readership providing appropriate
study tools. "Folio classique" offers
all the titles in the public domain set for
French at the Baccalaureate examination. French
speaking works predominate (two thirds of
the titles), followed by Russian and Anglo-Saxon
literature, then Old French, Latin and Ancient
Greek. A few bilingual editions are offered.
About 60% of the titles are from the nineteenth
century, texts from Antiquity and the Middle
Ages representing over 10% of the series.
Up until 1995 classical titles
appeared in "Folio" without any
distinguishing mark. At the beginning of the
1990s Jean-Yves Tadié was put in charge.
Without removing the titles from the "Folio"
numbering system, a specific series, "Folio
classique", was created in June 1994.
The name began appearing on the cover of new
works as well as reprints (the first being
the publication in one volume of Frères
Karamazov). Before "Folio classique"
there was "Le Livre de poche classique",
jointly managed with Hachette during the 1950s
and 1960s. The editorial team was in fact
located at the NRF under Roger Nimier and
then Robert Carlier. |
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Folioplus classiques & philosophie
Founded : 2003 & et 2006 for « Folioplus philosophie »
Number of titles in the catalogue :
222
Number of authors published : 145
Number of new titles published annually : 21
Sales to date : 3,4 millions
Average selling price : 4,60 € |
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"Folioplus
classiques" is aimed at junior and senior
high school students and caters for the national
education programme. Each volume includes
the full text, enhanced by the analysis of
a painting written by Alain Joubert or Valérie
Lagier (Fragonard 's Le Baiser à
la dérobée for Les Liaisons
dangereuses; Courbet's Le Désespéré for La Peau de chagrin…), as a
pictorial echo of the word, and a six-point
contextual framework: literary movement, genre
and register, the writer at work, grouping
of texts, chronology and information file.
The imprint has its own numbering system. |
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Founded : 1998
Number of titles in the catalogue : 638
Number of authors published : 228
Number of new titles per year : 41
Sales to date : 8,1 millions
Average selling price : 7 €
Website : www.folio-lesite.fr/foliopolicier |
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From
Ian Rankin to Björn Larsson, from Simenon
to Caryl Férey, "Folio policier"
follows the masters of the gothic novel and
reveals the authors who will have tomorrow's
readers quivering. Yvon Girard has overall
responsibility while Lionel Besnier, a writer
and former bookseller, has been directing
the imprint since 2003. All the different
thriller genres are represented, drawn from
the great authors on Gallimard's list (Chandler,
Goodis, Hammett, Himes, Thompson, Manchette,
Izzo, Jonquet, Pouy, Daeminckx, Benacquista,
but also Simenon, Boileau-Narcejac, Magnan,
Japrisot…) and more recent revelations
published in "Série noire",
as well as reprints of titles from outside
publishers (Baleine, Balland, Denoël,
Lignes noires, Le Rocher, La Table ronde,
for authors such as Henry Porter, Alexandre
Dumal, Patrick Raynal …). Over two-thirds
of "Folio policier" titles were
first published in "Série noire",
sometimes very recently (Lakhdar, Belaïd,,
Colin Thibert…), and/or in "Carré
noir". A few volumes come from "Blanche"
(Simenon) and "Noire" (Crews, Goines,
Palahniuk, Thornburg, Tosches). The website
for the imprint gives detailed information
about editorial choices and themes including
comments from booksellers. The imprint has
its own numbering system. |
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Top best sellers :
Ray Bradbury. Fahrentheit
451 (2000) : 430 000 ex.
Richard Matheson. Je suis une légende (2001)
Ray Bradbury. Chroniques martiennes (2001)
Isaac Asimov. Fondation (2000)
Dan Simmons. L’Échiquier du mal (2000) |
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Founded : 2000
Number of titles in the catalogue : 412
Number of authors published : 162
Number of new titles per year : 31
Sales to date : 5 millions
Average selling price : 6,60 €
Website : www.folio-lesite.fr/foliosf |
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Faithful to tradition in the
literature of the imagination, "Folio
SF" presents science fiction and fantasy
in its laboratory of possible worlds. Douglas
Adams, Isaac Asimov, Serge Brussolo, Orson
Scott Card, David Gemmell, M. John Harrison,
Lovecraft, Christopher Priest, Norman Spinrad,
Bruce Sterling, Jack Vance, Stefan Wul,
Roger Zelazny are among the most popular
authors of the imprint. By picking up Denoël's
legendary imprint "Présence
du futur" (600 volumes since 1954)
in 2000, Gallimard was able to considerably
boost its "Folio SF" catalogue,
as it did with Denoël's original imprint
"Lunes d'encre". With Sébastien
Guillot at the helm, "Folio SF"
has also published more than 15 new works
(Le travail du furet by Jean-Pierre
Andrevon, La voie du sabre by Thomas
Day, La Fontaine pétrifiante
by Christopher Priest…) as well as
revised and expanded editions (Jardin
virtuel by Sylvie Denis…) and texts
belonging to other publishers, such as l'Atalante,
Mnemos, Rivages, A.M. Metailié…
What about science fiction in
"Folio" ? The 'genre' is
neither marginal nor minor.
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Founded
: 2002
Number of titles in the catalogue :
51
Number of authors published : 37
Number of new titles published annually : 5
Sales to date : 710 000 ex.
Average selling price : 7,30 € |
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"Folio documents" focuses on publishing
current affairs documents and recent testimonies,
highlighted by events following their first
publication. The authors are not only observers
or investigators, but have also participated
in the events they describe. The majority
of titles are from the "Impacts"
imprint at Denoël, directed by Guy Birenbaum.
The imprint has its own numbering system. |
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Top best sellers :
Franz Kafka. Lettre au père (2002) 200 000 ex.
Lao-Tseu. Tao To King (2002)
Tonino Benacquista. La Boîte noire
et autres nouvelles (2002)
Yukio Mishima. Dojoji et autres nouvelles (2002)
Gandhi. La Voie de la non-violence (2005) |
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Founded : 2002
Number of titles in the catalogue :
317
Number of authors published : 231
Number of new titles published annually : 33
Sales to date : 7,2 millions |
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By
collecting the short works of great writers
(novels, novellas and texts) "Folio 2€"
offers an inexpensive way to discover international
literature. Like "Folio classique",
the imprint follows the "Folio"
numbering system. All the authors published
in "Folio 2€" can also be found
in the "Folio" catalogue. There
are three collections dealing with the themes
of love, letters to mother, and film stars.
The authors on Gallimard's twentieth century
list, French (Aragon, Kessel…) or foreign
(Blixen, Dahl, Kerouac…) - the majority
- sit beside more contemporary authors (Amis,
Benacquista, Brussolo, Daeninckx, McEwan…)
and a few classical figures (Sade, Voltaire). |
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Top best sellers :
H. Godard. Voyage au bout de la nuit de Céline (1991) :40 000 ex.
A. Meyer. La Condition humaine d'André
Malraux (1991)
J. Levi-Valensi. La Peste d'Albert
Camus (1991)
H. Levillain. Les Mémoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar (1992)
Claude Burgelin. Les Mots de Jean-Paul Sartre (1994) |
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Each
title in "Foliothèque" is
entrusted to acknowledged academics or specialists
(Berthier, Décaudin, Godard, Maulpoix,
Pingaud…) and includes a critical analysis
and a documentation file on the work of a
great writer. Directed by Bruno Vercier (Sorbonne
University) the series is aimed at literature
students and teachers in particular. Almost
80 authors have had one or several works studied
in depth - Balzac, Camus, Duras, Gide, Hugo,
Maupassant, Queneau, Sartre, Stendhal, Yourcenar
and Zola have been most discussed so far.
French literature of the twentieth century
predominates. J.M.G. Le Clézio and
Michel Tournier are for the time being the
only living writers to be part of the imprint.
"Foliothèque" is not limited
to one genre, it includes books on novels,
theatre and poetry. The series has its own
numbering system. |
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