Ring is a French publishing company founded in 2012 by David Kersan, also known as David Serra. It publishes thrillers, novels, non-fiction and comics. It is considered to a have far-right political position and publishes material from controversial authors.

History

Ring was established in 2012 in the same vein as the magazine ''Sur le ring''. Authors published by Ring include

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, Joël Houssin, Laurent Obertone, Zineb El Rhazoui, Frédérique Lantieri, Dominique Rizet, Philippe Verdier, Ghislain Gilberti,

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, Jocko Willink and Marsault. In January 2016, Ring started a pocket-side collection called La mécanique générale, where successful titles are reprinted after two years. In 2019, the stand of Ring at the Brussels Book Fair was vandalised. Ring had a 785 000-euro

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and a 130 000-euro benefit by late 2013, which ''

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'' stated wasIn 2014, revenue fell below 250 000 euros. Xavier Raufer has been involved with Ring.

Collections

* La Mécanique Générale (LMG) : ** LMG Documents : news, social reporting, personal accounts and non-fiction ** LMG Thrillers : fictions, thrillers * Ring Blanche : general literature * Ring Noir : thrillers, police drama * Murder Ballads : documents and ''true crimes''

Editorial stance

Scholar Pascal Durand has qualified Ring as being typical of a "neo-reactionnary" posture. ''

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'' sees Ring as a component of the

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, and has criticised its promotion of texts is deems to be xenophobic (''La France Orange mécanique'' by Laurent Obertone, a compilation of crimes partially attributed to children of immigrants; ''Une élection ordinaire'' by journalist

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, a fictional account of the election of

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for President of the French Republic); of climato-sceptics (such as a book by former meteo journalist Philippe Verdier). J.-L. Hippolyte, from Rutgers University-Camden, quotes a short portrait of Maurice G. Dantec, one of the star authors of Ring, by founder Serra, as being a "Christian Zionist, pro-American, anti-laic, counter-Revolutionary militant. A reporting on "the Far-Right attack on publishing", Ellen Salvi, a ''

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'' journalist, states that in 2016, David Serra has rejected the "Far-Right" qualification, stating that he "cares little for politics" and that "it is not because

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published a couple of Right-Wing authors hat he shared their opinions ''Les Inrockuptibles'' underlined that

Notes and references

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