In the history of letters, Gaston Gallimard is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Gaston Gallimard as French publisher (1881–1975).
Gaston Gallimard was born at 9th arrondissement of Paris in 1881. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at Lycée Condorcet and École Libre des Sciences Politiques.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary form itself came under argument, and the certainties of the realist novel were dismantled.
He worked as publisher and translator.
The writing is recorded in French.
A writer's real subject usually becomes visible only across the whole body of work.
That the work was written from France matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Gaston Gallimard died in 1975, aged 94. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
