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The art of the publisher
- Title
- The art of the publisher / Roberto Calasso ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.
- Author
- Calasso, Roberto
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 16-10 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Dixon, Richard
- Description
- 148 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Uniform Title
- Impronta dell'editore. English
- Alternative Title
- Impronta dell'editore.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148).
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Italian.
- Contents
- Singular books -- Publishing as a literary genre -- A letter to a stranger -- Giulio Einaudi -- Luciano Foà -- Peter Suhrkamp -- Vladimir Dimitrijević -- Faire plaisir -- The obliteration of publisher identity -- Aldo Manuzio's fly sheet.
- Call Number
- JFC 16-10
- ISBN
- 9780374188238 (hardback)
- 0374188238 (hardback)
- 9780374711832 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015010108
- OCLC
- 898419525
- Author
- Calasso, Roberto, author.
- Title
- The art of the publisher / Roberto Calasso ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148).
- Language
- Translated from the Italian.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Dixon, Richard, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 16-10