Free field

The publisher Free field was created in Paris in 1969 by Gerard Lebovici to publish works which reflect part of the currents of critical left and Extreme-left not-Leninist of the time.

History

Assisted by Gerard Guégan, who is the first literary director, Lebovici is surrounded by a team which includes/understands in particular Alain Saux and Raphaël Sorin like his wife Floriana Valentine. Free field publishes in this after-68 a large range of various texts which reflect the ideological research of the time as well as an opening towards the American Contre-culture.

In 1971, Free field republishes the book of Guy Debord, the company of the spectacle , and publishes works which are sometimes at counter-current, like those of old the Situationniste Rene Viénet or delivers it of the sinologist Simon Leys (of his true name Pierre Ryckmans), the new clothes of the president Mao , who contributes still to deflate the myth of the Cultural revolution Chinese very long-lived in France at that time especially among the intellectuals.

In 1974, Lebovici congédie the first team of Free field, showing it to want to transform the company into a commercial publisher like the others. The catalog will be purified and Overflow, named to advise leading, will acquire an importance growing in the choice of publications of certain titles (Clausewitz, Baltasar Gracian, Jorge Manrique, poets of Th' ang, Omar Khayyam but also Jaime Semprun, Jean-Louis Moinet and well of others). The marketing policy of the house will break with all the usual uses of the medium of the edition: no publications in paperbacks of the most sold titles, any contact with the press. Free field also republishes some revolutionary great classics as well as adverse writers of Stalinism (Karl Marx, Bakounine, Gustav Landauer, Karl Korsch, Ante Ciliga, Boris Souvarine, Valentinov, George Orwell).

After the assassination of Gerard Lebovici in 1984, the continuators renamed Free field Éditions Gerard Lebovici . Its funds has had for summer taken again by the editions Ivrea.

Catalog

Guy Overflow, the Company of the Spectacle (1971)
Andre Bazin, Jean Renoir (1971) - Presentation of François Truffaut
Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Heart of dog (1971)
Mikhaïl Boulgakov, the novel of Mister de Molière (1972)
Boris Pilniak, Tale of the nonextinct moon (1972)
Karl Korsch, Karl Marx (Postface of Paul Mattick) (1973)
W.C. Fields, Vote for me! (1973)
Andre Roumieux, I work with the lunatic asylum (1974)
Gerard Guégan, the rage in the middle (1974)
Jaime Semprun, the social war in Portugal (1975)
Boris Souvarine, Stalin. Historic insight of the Bolchevism (1977)
Ante Ciliga, Ten years with the country of the disconcerting lie (1977)
Roger Lewinter, Groddeck and the thousand-year-old kingdom of Jerome Bosch (1978)
Balthasar Gracian, the hero (1980)
Balthasar Gracian, the court gentleman (1980)
Georg Groddeck, Psychoanalytical Conferences with the use of the Patients. Conferences Pronounced with the Sanatorium of Baden-Baden vol. 1 & 2 (1981)
Claude Favre de Vaugelas, Remarks on the French language useful to those which want to speak well and well write (1981)
George Orwell, Hommage to Catalonia (1981)
George Orwell, And lives will aspidistra it! (1982)
George Orwell, a Little fresh air (1983)
George Orwell, the farm of the animals (1983)
Jean-Pierre Carasso, the Irish rumor (new Texts of Marx and Engels) (1970)
Stephan Vincentanne (pseudo of Gerard Guégan), the band with Pierrot-the-insane (1970)
secret Report/ratio of Khrouchtchev to the XXe congress of the Soviet PC followed Will of Lénine (1970)
Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli, Free jazz /black power (1971)
Striped Dunayevskaya, Marxisme and freedom - Foreword of Herbert Marcuse (1971)
Georges Sadoul, Dziga Vertov - Foreword of Jean Rouch (1971)
Wilhelm Reich, the murder of Christ (1971)
Nicolas Valentinov, My meetings with Lénine , transl. C. of Jouvencel (1987)
Jean-Pierre Voyer, Reich, directions for use (1971)
Groucho Marx, Correspondance of Groucho Marx (1971) - Translated from English by Claude Portail with the collaboration of Harry Mathews. Introduction by Arthur Sheekman
Andre Bazin the policy of the authors (1972) - collective Work (Jacques Becker, Charles Bitsch, Claude Chabrol, Michel Delahaye, Jean Domarchi, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Fereydoun Hoveyda, Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, Maurice Schérer, François Truffaut)
the True Scission into International Situationniste (1972)
Jean-Jacques Raspaud and Jean-Pierre Voyer, the International situationnist . Chronology, bibliography, protagonists (with an index of the insulted names) (1972)
Adolf Loos, Words in the vacuum (1979)
Karl Kraus, Said and conterdits (1975)
Nikolaï Taraboukine, the last table. Written on the art and the history of art at the time of the Russian constructivism (1972)
Edward Sexby, Tuer is not to assassinate (1980)
Georges Avenel, Anarcharsis Cloots, the speaker of mankind (1976)
Junius, Lettres of Junius (1977)

Freefall

Collection of science fiction of the Editions Free field directed by Jean-Claude Zylberstein. The collection existed only 4 years: from 1974 to 1978.

Philip Jose Farmer, the naked Jungle (1974)
Philip Jose Farmer, Like an animal (1974)
Roger Zelazny, Tumblers of the hell (1974)
Norman Spinrad, Final Chaos (1974)
Philip Jose Farmer, Station with the animal (1975)
Norman Spinrad, pioneers of chaos (1975)
Samuel Delany, Vice versa' (1975)

Philip K. Dick, the ball of the schizos (1975) [details of the editions]

Michael Moorcock, smashes It Glogauer (1975)

Philip Jose Farmer, a pastoral faggot (1975)

Theodore Sturgeon, Venus more X (1976)

Ian Watson, Orgasmachine (1976)

Richard E. Geis, Défense to lay down (1976)

James G. Ballard, the Fair with the atrocities (1976)

Philip K. Dick, Robot blues (1976) (published then under do the titles Androïdes dream of electric sheep? , then Blade Runner ) [details of the editions]

Barry NR. Malzberg, Service of order (1976)

Philip Jose Farmer, Each one her turn (1977)

David Meltzer, Tender network (1977)

Philip K. Dick, Lack of pot (1977) (then published under the title the Healer of cathedrals ) [details of the editions]

George MacBeth, has double edge (1977)

Philip Jose Farmer, Tarzan greets you well (Except Collection - 1978)

Collection Symptom

1. Collective, the State massacres (1971)
2. Jules Celma, the newspaper of a educastror (1971)
3. homosexual Face of revolutionary action, Report/ratio against normality (1971)
4. Christine Martineau and Jean-Pierre Carasso, Work In the Prisons (1972)
5. Marie Little face, evil barred. The policy, those which live about it, those which burst (1972) of it
6. Kommune 2. - Has West Berlin, adults and children create a commune to finish some with the middle-class being. (1972)

Asian library

Simon Leys, new clothes of the president Mao (1971) (Foreword of Rene Viénet)

Directed by Rene Viénet, this “itinerant” collection will be published thereafter in other editors, in particular into 10/18.

Intolerable collection

Group of information on the prisons (GIP), Investigation in 20 prisons (1971)
Group of information into the prisons (GIP), the GIP inquires in a prison-model: Fleury-Mérogis (1971)

The two following works of the collection (“the assassination of George Jackson” in 1971 and “Suicides of prison” in 1973) will be published at Gallimard.

Collection Traditional of Subversion

Joseph Déjacque, has the chiefs low! (Presentation of Valentine Pelosse)
Ernest Cœurderoy, For the Revolution preceded by Terrorism or Revolution by Raoul Vaneigem
Georges Darien, the Enemy of the People preceded by Bad cold the Democracy! by Yannick Cloarec (pseudo of Gerard Guégan)

Books of the Future

Bibliography on Free field

Editions Free field correspondence 1 and 2 (editions free field - 1981/Ivrea editions - 1996): " Editions are not only defined by the authors whom they accept or whom they push back, but still by the way in which they accept them and the repoussent"
Gilles de Bure the golden age of the illustration (editions of the collector - 1997): the chapter " skin of the livre" (p 168-175) reconsiders the graphic work of the first team, and in particular the role of Saux. Many reproductions of covers.
Christophe Bourseiller General History of the Far left (Denoël - 2003): the beginning of the chapter " how to manage the heritage? " (p 387-410) milked Free field, until the launching of Ivrea (and rupture with Overflow). This book having been the subject of many criticisms relating to the factual and/or theoretical errors that it would comprise, its contents is to be considered with precaution.
Gerard Guégan, Quoted champagne, esc I, Appt 289,95 - Argenteuil (Free field 1: 1968-1971) (Grasset, 2006).

Internal bonds

External bonds

Illustration and fourth of cover of each work of the collection Freefall

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