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Chargement... The Art of the Publisher (2013)par Roberto Calasso
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Giving this one a five for the good feeling it gave me of dwelling in the presence of shared sentiment. (And Calasso's writing, of course.) ( ) The exact right book for the exact right moment. I'd been kicking around this idea of starting a micro press for a little while when I spied this book at the store -- a little stack left for me by fate with this book and The Clothing of Books. I couldn't ignore such a sign so of course I bought them both. I did worry a bit that I'd made a poor choice. Calasso spends a lot of time name-checking Italian and Austrian authors and publishers, and detailing the scene of publishing in Europe. So many names went by that I was utterly unfamiliar with. But to say it was worth wading through all that would be a colossal understatement. So many thoughts here about the role of a publisher, as opposed to an editor. About the nature of a series or a collection. About the importance of a publisher's voice. About cover designs and blurbs. About relationships between publishers and authors, publishers and readers. About halfway through I had to go grab a set of pencils and start marking my copy up, something I do very rarely - a book has to make a significant impression on me to overcome my reticence to deface a book. The whole thing, in combination with Simon & Schuster's Milo debacle, has given me a major attitude about publishing -- and the major houses that "seem to be like formless stockpiles where you can find everything, with a particular emphasis on the worst." Not only has this strengthened my resolve to start my tiny press, but I have also resolved to buy no more books from the big five this year -- to seek out independents, micro presses, university presses, and the like, instead. (This shall also curb my impulse buying, I'm sure.) I'll close with one more quote from the book: Today, in fact, more than ever before, one of the prime objectives of publishing could be to shift the line determining what is publishable, and include as feasible a lot of what currently lies outside that line. Roberto Calasso uno dei fondatori della casa editrice Adelphi rende omaggio alla storia dell’editoria con un libretto che offre diversi spunti di riflessione, partendo dall’evoluzione nella fruizione dei contenuti, che si è profondamente modificata a seguito dell’avvento di Internet, con nuovi problemi connessi alla digitalizzazione dei libri ed alla possibilità di recuperare la centralità del ruolo dell’editore. E tra mercato e cultura Calasso affascina con la sua cultura profonda, aristocratica nel senso migliore del termine, passando in rassegna non solo i più autorevoli editori del secolo, ma anche le scelte assunte che delineano la linea editoriale. Il catalogo stesso diventa il filo conduttore di una logica dove l’irrazionale si fonde con il razionale, i piani contrapposti diventano un unico percorso. Più volte l’autore ricorda che l’editore si caratterizza se ha una forma, che integra lo stile, proprio dell’autore. La diversificazione non si ha nella proposta grafica così come è, scelta per scegliere, ma nel contesto culturale in cui si decide cosa pubblicare, quando e come. Il lettore target si trasforma, quindi, in lettore consapevole, in un circolo virtuoso che esalta la funzione stessa dell’editore. Infine, l’esperienza di Calasso e lo stile amichevole con cui scrive consente al lettore ignaro di approfondire alcuni temi come quello, viva i particolari,del risvolto di copertina, quelle quattro, cinquecento battute in ragione delle quali decideremo chi ci accompagnerà per molte ore. Libro da leggere per ogni bibliofilo. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing In this fascinating memoir, the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. Recalling the beginnings of Adelphi in the 1960s, he touches on the Italian house's defining qualities, including the considerations involved in designing the successful Biblioteca series and the strategy for publishing a wide range of authors of high literary quality, as well as the historic critical edition of the works of Nietzsche. With his signature erudition and polemical flair, Calasso transcends Adelphi to look at the publishing industry as a whole, from the essential importance of graphics, jackets, and cover flaps to the consequences of universal digitization. And he outlines what he describes as the "most hazardous and ambitious" profile of what a publishing house can be: a book comprising many books, a form in which "all the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain"--a conception akin to that of other twentieth-century publishers, from Giulio Einaudi to Roger Straus, of whom the book offers brief portraits. An essential book for writers, readers, and editors, The Art of the Publisher is a tribute to the elusive yet profoundly relevant art of making books"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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