The Literary Prize as an Instrument in the Material and Symbolic Production of Literature: The Case of the 'Prix Formentor', 1961-1965.
In the 1960s a group of thirteen independent publishers of quality literature, brought together by the Spanish publisher Carlos Barral, founded two new literary prizes: the 'Prix Formentor' and the 'Prix des Éditeurs'. This article focuses on the background of the 'Prix Formentor', which was designe...
| Publicado en: | Quaerendo Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 147 - 178 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2013
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