The Grasset Editions () is a French publishing house founded in 1907 by (1881–1955).

History

Founder

In 1913, Bernard Grasset publishes the first volume of '' À la recherche du temps perdu'', by Marcel Proust, '' Du côté de chez Swann'', without reading it, and in 1920, André Maurois,

François Mauriac François Charles Mauriac (, oc, Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the'' Académie française'' (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize ...

Henry de Montherlant Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant (; 20 April 1895 – 21 September 1972) was a French essayist, novelist, and dramatist. He was elected to the Académie française in 1960. Biography Born in Paris, a descendant ...

Paul Morand Paul Morand (13 March 1888 – 24 July 1976) was a French author whose short stories and novellas were lauded for their style, wit and descriptive power. His most productive literary period was the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s. He was mu ...

(called the 4 M) and later on: Raymond Radiguet,

Blaise Cendrars Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European mo ...

André Malraux Georges André Malraux ( , ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and Minister of Culture (France), minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Go ...

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle (; 3 January 1893 – 15 March 1945) was a French writer of novels, short stories and political essays. He was born, lived and died in Paris. Drieu La Rochelle became a proponent of French fascism in the 1930s, ...

Fernand de Brinon Fernand de Brinon, Marquis de Brinon (; 26 August 1885 – 15 April 1947) was a French lawyer and journalist who was one of the architects of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. He claimed to have had five private talks with ...

, Jacques Doriot,

Abel Bonnard Abel Bonnard (19 December 1883 31 May 1968) was a French poet, novelist and politician. Biography Born in Poitiers, Vienne, his early education was in Marseilles with secondary studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. A student of literatu ...

, Jacques Chardonne,

Georges Blond Georges Blond (''Jean-Marie Hoedick'', 11 July 1906 in Marseille – 16 March 1989 in Paris), was a French writer. A prolific writer of mostly history but also other topics including fiction, Blond was also involved in far right political activity. ...

and

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...

. He is condemned, in 1945, for his collaboration with the nazis and receives

Electroconvulsive therapy Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders.Rudorfer, MV, Henry, ME, Sackeim, HA (2003)"Electroconvulsive th ...

Ville-d'Avray Ville-d'Avray () is a Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris. The commune is part of the arrondissement of Boulogne-Billancourt in the Hauts-de-Seine Department ...

, for mental illness.

Publishing house

In 1959, Bernard Privat merge the '' éditions Fasquelle'' with Grasset. Jean-Claude Fasquelle becomes also the director of the ''Magazine Littéraire'', in 1970. In 1975, Grasset's literary director, Yves Berger also Pierre Sabbagh's cultural adviser on the 2nd channel of French television, convinces Jacqueline Baudrier in charge of the 1st channel to replace Marc Gilbert's ''Italics'' with

Bernard Pivot Bernard Pivot (; born 5 May 1935) is a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. He was chairman of the Académie Goncourt from 2014 to 2020. Biography Pivot was born in Lyon, the son of two grocers. During Worl ...

's ''Ouvrez les guillemets'' talk show. In 1982, ''La Violence et le sacré'', by René Girard, recognized the merit of nazi philosopher

Carl Schmitt Carl Schmitt (; 11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, and prominent member of the Nazi Party. Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power. A conservative theorist, he is noted as ...

. From 1981 to 2005, Lucien Bodard, Dominique Fernandez, Amin Maalouf, Patrick Rambaud, Pascal Quignard, François Weyergans, published by Grasset, win the Prix Goncourt. Jean-Marie Rouart, Raphaële Billetdoux, François Weyergans,

Pascal Bruckner Pascal Bruckner (; born 15 December 1948, in Paris) is a French writer, one of the "New Philosophers" who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Much of his work has been devoted to critiques of French society and culture. Biography Bruckner ...

, Dominique Bona, Daniel Picouly, Frédéric Beigbeder, Virginie Despentes,

Yann Moix Yann Moix (, ; born 31 March 1968) is a French author, film director and television presenter. He is the author of ten novels and the recipient of several literary prizes. He has directed three films. He was a columnist on '' On n'est pas couch� ...

, Olivier Guez, win the

Prix Renaudot The Prix Théophraste-Renaudot or Prix Renaudot () is a French literary award. History The prize was created in 1926 by ten art critics awaiting the results of deliberation of the jury of the Prix Goncourt. While not officially related to the ...

, from 1984 to 2017.

Antisemitism

In 2006, are published ''OPA sur les Juifs de France'', by Jonathan Myara and , ''Ce grand cadavre à la renverse'', by Bernard-Henri Lévy ( 2007), '' HHhH'', by Laurent Binet, acronym for ''Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich'', or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich " about the Operation Anthropoid ( 2010), ''Et tu n'es pas revenu'' ( 2015), by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, ''L'esprit du judaîsme'' (

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), by Bernard-Henri Lévy ; ''Simone Veil et les siens'' (2018), prefaced by Annick Cojean, ''La main du diable : Comment l'extrême droite a voulu séduire les Juifs de France'' (

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), by Jonathan Hayoun et Judith Cohen Solal, ''Retour à Birkenau'', by Ginette Kolinka, ''Réflexions sur la question antisémite'' (in French), by Delphine Horvilleur, ''Left wing negationism'', by Thierry Wolton, ''Consent'' (

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...

), by Vanessa Springora, revealing her experience with extreme right and pedophile writer, close to Jean-Marie Le Pen and

Renaud Camus Renaud Camus (; ; born Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus on 10 August 1946) is a French novelist, conspiracy theorist and white nationalist writer. He is the inventor of the " Great Replacement", a far-right conspiracy theory that claims that a "glob ...

, both accused of antisemitism, Gabriel Matzneff after Grasset refused a first time to publish the book of a victim. and exofictions as, ''La Carte postale'', by Anne Berest or ''La France Goy'' (

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), by , about Edouard Drumont, the most strident of Alfred Dreyfus' accusers.

Post-revisionism

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, is the new director and publishes the controversial philosopher Michel Onfray dedicating his ''Traité d"athéologie'' (2005) to

Raoul Vaneigem Raoul Vaneigem (; born 21 March 1934) is a Belgian writer known for his 1967 book ''The Revolution of Everyday Life''. He was born in Lessines ( Hainaut, Belgium) and studied romance philology at the Free University of Brussels from 1952 to 1 ...

, who defended holocaust denier's freedom of speech, supported by Robert Ménard and Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, ''Histoires de saisons'' ( 2006), by Jean Pierre Fleury, former assistant of Pierre-André Boutang married to Grasset's editor Martine Ferrand and publisher of holocaust denier and post-revisionism's founder with Alain Guionnet, pedophile described by Roland Jaccard, Olivier Mathieu, Virginie Despentes, criticized for complacency towards

Charlie Hebdo shooting On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. CET local time, two French Muslim terrorists and brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper ''Charlie Hebdo'' in Paris. Armed with ...

's authors, and called the "scavenger of January 7, 2015", ''Autopsie'', by Mehdi Meklat, accused of antisemtism and negrophobia or Laurent Joly's analysis of post-revisionism, in ''La falsification de l'Histoire'' (

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). In 2019, '' L'Express'' revealed documents, that

participated in 1989 and 1990, when he was a student, at age 21, in three issues of ''Ushoahia'', a "home-made magazine"

holocaust denial Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements: ...

inspired by Post-revisionism, conveying

anti-Semitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...

as well as virulent racism against blacks, ''

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

'' reports that at Grasset, directed by Yves Berger, Yann Moix's publishing house, three people were aware of the incriminated publications: Bernard-Henri Lévy, Jean-Paul Enthoven and the CEO Olivier Nora. In

, ''The jesters of hatred'', by Thomas Nlend, reveals how a black man became a police informant concerning

Alain Soral Alain Bonnet, known as Alain Soral (; born 2 October 1958), is a far-right Franco-Swiss ideologue, essayist, filmmaker and actor. Claiming to have been a member of the French Communist Party in the 1990s, Soral worked for the National Front ...

, condemned for apology of crime against humanity,

and supporter of Matzneff.; and ''DAFT'', by Pauline Guéna, Anne-Sophie Jahn, about retro-futurist electro-pop DJ's, Daft Punk, whose grandfather was Francisco Manuel Homem Cristo Filho, co-founder of the fascist stare, Estado Novo.

Three famous novels

* ' of

François Nourissier François Nourissier (Paris, 18 May 1927–Paris, 15 February 2011) was a French journalist and writer. Nourissier was the secretary-general of Éditions Denoël (1952–1955), editor of the review ''La Parisienne'' (1955–1958), and an adviser ...

, Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française) * '' Du côté de chez Swann'' of Marcel Proust, published at author's expense * ' of

Edmonde Charles-Roux Edmonde Charles-Roux (17 April 1920 – 20 January 2016) was a French writer. Early life Charles-Roux was born in 1920 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, the daughter of Francois Charles-Roux, the former French ambassador to Czechoslovakia, a member of t ...

, Prix Goncourt

References

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