Hors 1976-1981 : cinq ans d'édition marginale et pirate
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Abstract EN:
This thesis aims at clarifying the processes of a very small publishing house (non-profit making association, under the 1901 french act), set up in 1976 and which stop all activities in 1981. This association published magazines, original books and portfolios. It also reprinted in secret various texts, mainly from xxth century writers, unavailable for various reasons. Based on the 49 titles published and the documents archived (circulars, correspondence, accounting documents, official documents concerning the association and its publishing procedures), the study focusses on 3 points : - history of the activity, - analysis of options and behavioural aspects, dealing as well with edition and financial issues as with work methods and techniques (typesetting, printing, binding, distribution). The analysis is supplemented by a comparison between the micro-publishing house and similar publishing houses operating at the same period. - setting up of a "reasoned" catalog of the publications, including particulars and a physical description, and chapters describing the special characteristics relating to content and distribution or elements pertaining to post-publishing (critics, new editions. . . ).
Abstract FR:
La these a pour objet d'expliciter la demarche d'une micro-entreprise d'edition (association a but non lucratif, loi de 1901), nee en 1976 et close en 1981, ayant publie des revues, des livres et des porte-folios originaux et ayant pratique la reimpression clandestine de textes, en majorite d'auteurs du xxe siecle, indisponibles pour diverses raisons. Basee sur les quarante-neuf titres publies et sur les documents conserves en archives (lettres circulaires, correspondances, pieces comptables, documents officiels relatifs a la vie de l'association et a la pratique editoriale), l'etude se developpe selon trois axes : - reconstitution chronologique de la vie de la micro-entreprise - analyse des options et comportements, tant pour ce qui releve des choix editoriaux ou financiers que pour ce qui a trait aux methodes et techniques de travail (composition, impression, brochage, distribution. . . ). Cette analyse est completee d'une comparaison entre cette micro-entreprise et d'autres entreprises semblables de la decennie. - elaboration d'un catalogue raisonne des publications de l'entreprise comprenant, outre un signalement et une description materielle, un ensemble de sections decrivant des particularismes de contenu et de distribution ou relevant des elements sur la vie posterieure des publications (critiques, reeditions. . . ).