The Art Of The Publisher

Calasso, Roberto

ISBN 10: 0141978481 ISBN 13: 9780141978482

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2015

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Written with passion, intelligence and not without a certain flair for a story, it's a treat for any bibliophile, a manifesto/memoir that proves he's a master of the art form he's arguing for (Independent)

What makes this slim text memorable is [Calasso's] sheer passion for books - not digital texts but physical objects, in which every part is designed to enhance the experience of reading. An important and timely book (PD Smith Guardian)

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'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'

In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. 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, akin to that of other twentieth-century publishers, from Giulio Einaudi to Roger Straus, of whom the book offers brief portraits.

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0141978481
• ISBN 13: 9780141978482
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96