The art of the publisher /

The art of the publisher /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Calasso, Roberto, author.
Uniform title:	Impronta dell'editore. English
Edition:	First American edition.
Imprint:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Description:	148 pages ; 20 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Calasso, Roberto -- Career in publishing. Calasso, Roberto. Adelphi (Firm) -- History. Adelphi (Firm) Publishers and publishing. Publishers and publishing -- History. Publishers and publishing -- Biography. Publishers and publishing. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10396497

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Other authors / contributors:	Dixon, Richard, translator.
ISBN:	9780374188238 0374188238 9780374711832
Notes:	Translated from the Italian. Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148). Translated from the Italian.
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"--

Table of Contents:

Publishing as a literary genre
Singular books
A letter to a stranger
Giulio Einaudi
Luciano Foà
Roger Straus
Peter Suhrkamp
Vladimir Dimitrijević
Faire plaisir
The obliteration of publisher identity
Aldus Manutius's fly sheet.