ABSTRACT
Les Éditions de Minuit were founded by Pierre de Lescure and Jean Bruller (Vercors) during the Occupation, first publishing Vercors’s resistance parable, The Silence of the Sea (Le Silence de la mer) in 1942, among no fewer than twenty-five titles to appear up to August 1944. After Jérôme Lindon took over in 1948, Minuit achieved even greater fame for launching the nouveau romanciers Beckett, Butor, Duras, Pinget, Robbe-Grillet and Sarraute. Minuit also has an extensive philosophy catalogue, including authors such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard, and publishes the review Critique.
