Éric Losfeld
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- | '''Eric Losfeld''' ([[1923]]? - [[1979]]) was a [[French]] [[publisher]] who had a reputation for publishing [[controversial]] material with his publishing imprints [[Éditions Arcanes]] (founded 1953) and [[Le Terrain Vague|Éditions Le Terrain Vague]] (founded 1955). A rival [[clandestine]] French editor was [[Jean-Jacques Pauvert]]. The difference between them was -- in the words of [[Sarane Alexandrian]]: "Jean-Jacques Pauvert was an editor of [[surrealism]], Losfeld was a [[surrealist]] editor." | + | '''Éric Losfeld''' ([[Mouscron]], 1922 - [[Paris]], 1979) was a Belgian-born [[French publisher]] who had a reputation for publishing [[controversial]] material with his publishing imprints [[Éditions Arcanes]] (founded 1952) and [[Éditions Le Terrain Vague]] (founded 1955). |
+ | He was the publisher of ''[[Emmanuelle (novel)|Emmanuelle]]'' (1967), two film magazines ''([[Midi Minuit Fantastique]]'' and ''[[Positif (magazine)|Positif]]''), and the ''[[Barbarella (comic book)|Barbarella]]'' science fiction comic book created by [[Jean-Claude Forest]]. | ||
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+ | Éric Losfeld's tombstone inscription reads: "Tout ce qu'il éditait avait le souffle de la liberté." ("Everything he published had the breath of freedom.") | ||
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+ | A rival [[clandestine]] French editor was [[Jean-Jacques Pauvert]]. The difference between them was -- in the words of [[Sarane Alexandrian]]: "Jean-Jacques Pauvert was an editor of [[surrealism]], Losfeld was a [[surrealist]] editor." | ||
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+ | [[März Verlag]] in [[German literature|Germany]] and [[Calder and Boyars]] in the [[British literature|United Kingdom]]. | ||
== Erotica == | == Erotica == | ||
- | He was the publisher of the soft porn novel ''[[Emmanuelle]]'' (1967). | + | He was the publisher of the soft porn novel ''[[Emmanuelle (novel)|Emmanuelle]]'' (1959). |
== Film criticism == | == Film criticism == | ||
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== Autobiography == | == Autobiography == | ||
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+ | *[[Cinematic Losfeld]] | ||
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Éric Losfeld (Mouscron, 1922 - Paris, 1979) was a Belgian-born French publisher who had a reputation for publishing controversial material with his publishing imprints Éditions Arcanes (founded 1952) and Éditions Le Terrain Vague (founded 1955).
He was the publisher of Emmanuelle (1967), two film magazines (Midi Minuit Fantastique and Positif), and the Barbarella science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest.
Éric Losfeld's tombstone inscription reads: "Tout ce qu'il éditait avait le souffle de la liberté." ("Everything he published had the breath of freedom.")
A rival clandestine French editor was Jean-Jacques Pauvert. The difference between them was -- in the words of Sarane Alexandrian: "Jean-Jacques Pauvert was an editor of surrealism, Losfeld was a surrealist editor."
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Similar publishers
März Verlag in Germany and Calder and Boyars in the United Kingdom.
Erotica
He was the publisher of the soft porn novel Emmanuelle (1959).
Film criticism
He was the publisher of two film magazines (Midi Minuit Fantastique; Positif) and the essays of Ado Kyrou.
Other periodicals
Bizarre was an arts magazine first published by Eric Losfeld in 1953 and then handed over to Pauvert after the former had edited only two issues.
Literary fiction
On the literary side he published the work of Roland Topor, Fernando Arrabal, Eugène Ionesco ...
Comic books
He published the Barbarella science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest.
Joëlle Losfeld
His daugher, Joëlle Losfeld runs her own publishing imprint.
Epitaph
"Tout ce qu'il éditait avait le souffle de la liberté." Inscription on Eric Losfeld's tombstone.
Autobiography