Jérôme Lindon
$32.70
- Paperback
95 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2026
Summary
Jerome Lindon is a genre-defying meditation on the friendship and working relationship between Jean Echenoz and his editor, the founder of Les Editions de Minuit, Jerome Lindon. Lindon published the work of Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, and Robbe-Grillet, among so many other giants. This voice-driven ramble recounts in candid, understated, and hilarious glimpses Echenoz’s encounters with his publisher over a period of twenty years, and in the process reveals an intimate portrait of both of them. Echenoz’s spare, lyrical, and playful descriptions of early-morning phone calls and exchanges over lunch illuminate Lindon’s impulsiveness and impatience, his matter-of-fact generosity, and the humanity beneath his gruff exterior. In his unassuming way, Echenoz’s lets us in on how his own literary path was shaped by Jerome Lindon’s belief in him and explores the deep bonds between a writer and his publisher. A tender tribute.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781962770699 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1962770699 |
| Author: | Jean Echenoz, Mark Polizzotti |
| Publisher: | Archipelago Books |
| Imprint: | Archipelago Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 95 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 165mm |
Critics Review
“Echenoz loosely chronicles the publisher-writer relationship, with its ups and downs, closeness and distance … a nice little personal tribute.” —Michael Orthofer, The Complete Review
“This funny and quietly tender reflection from novelist Echenoz recounts his friendship with his editor Jérôme Lindon, who headed the French publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit from 1948 until his death in 2001 and published the work of Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, and Alain Robbe-Grillet, among others … Echenoz offers glimpses of the humanity beneath Lindon’s gruff exterior, revealing him to be a passionate, reliable editor. The result is a charming portrayal of the often complicated writer-editor relationship.” —Publishers Weekly
”[Jérôme Lindon is] well, maybe not sprightly, because sometimes peeved or frustrated, but moving, heartfelt, immediate.” —Lydia Davis
“I laughed out loud reading Echenoz’s charming and lively tribute to Jérôme Lindon, even as it made me nostalgic for the lost literary life I dreamt of being part of when I was young. A beautiful book that celebrates an utterly singular character.” —Nicole Krauss
“Reading this remembrance is like tagging along for a dream that celebrates the vulnerability, love, and complicated relationships from which all great art springs.” —DW Gibson
Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz was born in 1947 in Vaucluse, France. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Cherokee, Double Jeopardy, Chopin’s Move, Big Blondes, Piano, Ravel, Running, Lightning, and Special Envoy. His work has received a great number of literary prizes, among them the Prix Goncourt, the Prix Medicis, and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris.
Translator Bio:
Mark Polizzotti has translated more than sixty books from the French, including Arthur Rimbaud’s The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings and Jean Echenoz’s Command Performance, and is the author of thirteen books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, Why Surrealism Matters, and Jump Cuts: Essays. He has translated Scholastique Mukasonga’s Kibogo and his translation of Mukasonga’s Murmurs from the Hills is forthcoming. He lives in New York.
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