Echenoz's Slim Book About the Publisher Who Made Him
In a new book simply titled Jérôme Lindon, Jean Echenoz revisits two decades spent under the wing of one of French publishing's most storied figures.
Jean Echenoz has published a short book, Jérôme Lindon, devoted to his relationship with the man whose name it bears — a figure described by Literary Hub as a legend of the French literary establishment. According to the outlet, the book runs to sixty pages, written in a spare, affectionate, occasionally lightly barbed style.
The narrative covers roughly twenty years, opening in 1979 with what Literary Hub describes as an unexpected summons — the beginning of a bond between a young writer and the publisher who took him on. The piece does not detail further plot points beyond this opening scene, nor does it specify a French publisher or release date for the book.
Echenoz, one of the more durable names in contemporary French fiction, has long been associated with his publisher's house; this volume appears to be his own accounting of that relationship, told in the compressed, understated register for which his prose is known. No further detail on length of coverage, intended audience, or specific anecdotes was available in the source material.
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