Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Jean -Jacques Pauvert ( born April 8, 1926 in Paris ) is a French publisher and author.
Pauvert has especially marginalized and suppressed writings of French literature published, especially by Donatien -Alphonse- François de Sade. He also has a number of new talents discovered: Albertine Sarrazin, Jean Carrière, Hortense Dufour, Françoise Lefèvre, Brigitte Lozerec'h, Mario Mercier.
1942, the 15 -year-old worked at Gallimard, where he met Jean Paulhan. After the Second World War, the Éditions du Palimugre founded and brought out texts by Sartre, Montherlant, Léautaud and Flaubert. 1947 - 1952 he edited Juliette, Justine, or the 120 Days of Sodom and Philosophy in the Boudoir de Sade.
In 1954 he published The Story of O by Pauline Réage through the mediation of Paulhan.
1956 there was a police investigation against Pauvert because of its publications by Sade and Réage. 1958 a youth ban on some of the books was pronounced.
1958 - 1983 he edited:
- Dictionnaire de la langue française of Littre, s 7 volumes ( 1956-1959 ).
- Georges Darien
- Georges Bataille
- André Breton
- Erckmann - Chatrian
- The complete edition of works of Victor Hugo
- L' Histoire de l'art by Élie Faure
- Pierre Klossowski
- Raymond Roussel
- Charles Cros
- Albertine Sarrazin
- The comtesse de Ségur
- Oscar Panizza
- Fulcanelli
- Eugène Canseliet
- Salvador Dalí
- C. R. Maturin
- René de Solier
- Monsieur Nicolas ou le cœur humain devoile of Restif de la Bretonne
- Honoré de Balzac
- Françoise Sagan
1972 got its author Jean Carrière the prix Goncourt for his novel L' Épervier de Maheux.
Bibliography of Pauvert as an author
- Historique anthology of lectures érotiques, 5 volumes aux éditions floor. Tome 5: De l' infini au zéro, 1985-2000, publié en 2001
- Sade vivant, 3 volumes, éd. Robert Laffont, 1986 to 1990. Prix des Deux Magots
- Nouveaux ( et moins nouveaux ) visages de la censure, suivi de l' Affaire Sade, éd. Les Belles Lettres, 1994
- L' Amour à la française, ou l' exception étrange, éd. du Rocher, 1997
- Apollinaire et Monaco, éd. du Rocher, 1999
- La Littérature érotique, éd. Flammarion / Dominos, 2000
- La Traversée du livre, éd. Viviane Hamy, 2004