Mine is Adelphi, Italian publisher.
Your favorite publisher from your country?
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Anagrama, Spain
>not take the Mondadori pill
Why Adelphi btw?
t. fellow Italianon
not Rizzoli?
La Mondadori è un editore troppo commerciale, tra l'altro passata di mano a Berlusconi e ora alla sua famiglia. Ma a parte questo non troverai mai altro se non libri di superficie e best seller con loro, il motivo è questo.
Adelphi è chiaramente un editore più elitario e raffinato, oltre che di stile. Non mi pare di aver mai trovato altro se non libri di spessore da loro; fino a scrittori sconosciuti che altrimenti non verrebbero pubblicati nel nostro paese. Anche solo la qualità della carta è superiore, motivo per cui si fa pagare di più.
Un altro editore italiano a cui tengo è Nottetempo, che ha pubblicato Agamben, Zizek e Byung-chul Han recentemente. Pubblicano spesso saggistica e filosofia contemporanea.
Penguin obviously.
>Obviously
Looks gorgeous and colorful.
fuck penguins, fuckers can't even read and think they are good at publishing books.
This
Nórdica libros is also based, but a bit niche
Acantilado, Spain
Italian is a beautiful language.
Reclam
Honestly, why should I have a favourite?
Most don't have overlapping catalogues, and usually a work is only published by only one publisher at a time.
If we are talking pure build quality, then Magvető and Helikon, but I'd go with Helikon probably, since their books are usually not gigantic and I can comfortably carry them around.
(And their catalogue is bigger too, if we count the used market, but that's not "build quality".)
If we are talking about selection, then Európa, just because they published nigh everything during Communism.
Shoutouts to Noran Libro for putting out nice volumes of Chinese novellas and novels by good authors, all translated from the Chinese.
Fuck Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, because they had shit build quality when they were active, and just acted like a discount Magvető during socialism, publishing contemporary shit by approved authors. Good riddance they went out of business.
yes
City Lights
Solum, Norway
Perfect for yellow posting.
Swissanon here but Gallimard Blanche, Grasset, the Pléiade collection, Bibliothèque de la Nuisance are all pretty based, lots of high quality french paperbacks. Il y a aussi les éditions slatkine et d'autres à Genève mais ils sont soit trops chers ou leur sélection est niche/trop centrée sur des auteurs Suisses
Also éditions Allia make amazing small paperbacks with high quality paper
Zero books
While you're here, Italianon, do you now the Italian equivalent of the NYRB or anything like that that publishes good articles and reviews new books ? I'm good enough to start digging through Italian litterature but I want something to get in the mail and to be up to date.
Wordsworth Editions
I got it 4 cheap
Editora 34
D O V E R T H R I F T
Karakter from Poland and Garage from Russia (picrel is Illness as Metaphor)
kek'd.
wich logo version do you like most Yea Forums?
i like the 1942 version.
omg, why dont they share the same height? wtf this drives me crazy.
Based schizo.
ah yes
what has this to do with schizophrenia?
this
They make their black books feel so disposable.
Is this computer graphic?
No, it's just how their books are.
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Googling it made me uncomfortable.
>wich logo version do you like most Yea Forums?
1948 (2nd)
looks very suspicious
I love how half of them look electrocuted.
what are some australian publishers?
Well there are the big ones like Drongo and Sheila, who mostly dabble in current affairs, politics, you name it. Think they did a pretty decent series of exposes on the Lindt Cafe shooting when that fiasco went down a while back, you know the Marxist perspective, the traditionalist perspective, the Hindu perspective blah blah blah, sometimes it really is just a lot of wank. When it comes to stuff of that nature I'd usually point you in the direction of VB Press, really excellent printing and the spines are fucking unbreakable. Now, if pulp shit is more your taste, then I have just the thing for you. A new publishing house, Tie Me Kangaroo Down Press, this little hovel out of some shit town in Tassie is doing some remarkable reprintings of some Suhiro Maruo crap from the early 90s, I highly recommend.
Bravo italianon aristocratico, completamente d'accordo su Adelphi. E vorrei aggiungere che, rispetto alle altre case editrici Italiane, quello che Adelphi ha è che ha mantenuto un certo livello di autorità e credibilità sui propri lettori (diversamente da mondadori e feltrinelli, ad esempio). Cioè, con Adelphi mi è capitato spesso di comprare da loro libri di autori che nemmeno conoscevo, perché mi fido della qualità delle loro pubblicazioni. Nel caso di mondadori questo non è mai successo: se compro un loro libro è perché sono gli unici ad averlo e non trovo nessuna edizione migliore, non perché sia stato pubblicato da mondadori.
Inoltre, se si guarda a quello che fin qui ha fatto Calasso in termini di editoria, sia dichiaratamente che in maniera più sottile, Adelphi è stata concepita con un chiaro criterio estetico ed è forse l'unica casa editrice esistente che può essere da sé considerata un'opera d'arte. Calasso ha sempre detto che considera la selezione editoriale di Adelphi come la costruzione di un unico libro, e a leggere le sue opere ha veramente una sensibilità innata per il bricolage letterario/saggistico. Onestamente, penso valga la pena di imparare la nostra lingua solo per avere accesso a libri del genere.
PIW, Poland.
Fischer, Germany
>Adelphi
Good taste
>Tallone
Patrician taste
>He gives money to Berlusconi
They’re good only with critical edition of some classics. The rest is shit
>only publishing house with a clearly conceived aesthetic criterion
Only thing I don’t agree you with
There are some niche houses like Tallone and Henry Beyle that pursue beauty, craftmanship and yet have some interesting choice of texts
That fucker is so irredeemably self-enamoured with his shitty little book blog, he just ought to be gassed to be honest.
reclam sind mega scheiße ihr verarmten hippies
Don't they Elena Ferrante?
reclam
>mega scheiße
peinlich
UNAM or Fondo de Cultura Económica (México), probably. Sexto Piso is also quite good.
reclam is great
>reclam sind mega scheiße ihr verarmten hippies
t. verdummt durch Deutsch LK
Les Belles Lettres, France.
The madmen have a century long program to have the complete edition of the entire classical greco-latin works of antiquity (up to 6th century AD). Everything, the authoritative text in original language plus French translation (on opposite pages). The project has been going on since 1919. Their current catalogue (in French):
lesbelleslettres.com
They also edit books beyond that, recently I got the complete correspondence of Joseph de Maistre (the editors are quite on the based and redpilled side).
>Poland
Ossolineum: Biblioteka Narodowa
Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy
Both maintained by Polish national treasury.
Ötüken, Turkey
Pretty covers. Also, bc they're not mondadori.
Based springerposter
Diesci
El caballo mas hermoso - belize
no, this is just germany in reih und glied.
he looks like he got caught on the way to the fridge in the middle of the night.
this looks like cover art on advanced math
reclam ist billig und günstig.
What in the world was going with the logo between 1938-1948 loool.
There's no good publishing houses in Portugal.
nice
I can't think of a British publishing house that hasn't dramatically declined within the last couple of decades, apart from Baronius Press, they're pretty expensive but the quality is 10/10.
all mexican publishers are ugly and cheap, nothing of quality to see in this country
holy based
Ed. Almadía and Ed. Acapulco are nice.
In Croatia I guess it's Matica hrvatska, although they have a number of duds (overpriced stuff, subpar new translations of Shakespeare) they still have great breadth, from ancient philosophy to contemporary poetry, with no shitty commercial pretensions. Also they have excellent softcover design, totally trumps the cheap garbage most English books are printed on.
There are also Demetra and Latina et Graeca, that focus on philosophy and antiquity respectively, with absolutely insane philological and methodological rigour, but they are a bit too limited in focus to call them the best overall, I guess.
mmm sexy
É Realizações in Brazil, some of the only ones who doesn't publish YA crap or the "Foreign socialist fad-of-the-week stablishment pawn, the book: How to make naive third worlders think like the big brands and governments want them to!".
They've published majorilly useful shit for how-to-humanities of the universal and western literature and non-fiction. Stuff like Mortimer Adler, Trivium, Quadrivium and A D Sertillanges.
Fuck them for shutting down the subtitled documentary of How to Read A Book on youtube tho.
Liesma, Latvia. Probably just me being nostalgic, but those books feel comfy as fuck
>Tallone, Patrician taste
Tallone is an aristocratic publisher only made for rich people who can afford collecting hand-made books for 500 euros to 10k euros.
...
FCE has quality considering the cost
it literally has cheap in the name, where do we expect aristocrats to spend their big bucks..?