2024-05-07 10:24:45
Publisher Léo Scheer has just passed away at the age of 76. He has notably published the novelists Chloé Delaume and Camille Laurens, the sociologist Didier Eribon, and even polemical writers like Richard Millet or Gabriel Matzneff.
Publisher Léo Scheer died on Saturday at the age of 76, at the end of a life where he exercised his talents as a writer, sociologist, advertiser and television man, his wife announced on Tuesday.
The announcement of the death, which occurred in a Paris hospital, was published by Nathalie Rheims in the notebook of the daily Le Figaro.
Léo Scheer created a publishing house in his name in 2000, which publishes literature and works on the human sciences and photography.
Its eclectic catalog includes authors like Éric Vuillard, before his Goncourt prize, the poet Yves Bonnefoy, the novelists Chloé Delaume and Camille Laurens, the sociologist Didier Eribon, and even polemical writers like Richard Millet or Gabriel Matzneff.
Editor de Matzneff
In 2005, he republished the latter’s controversial essay, The Under Sixteen Years, advocating sexual relations with children and adolescents, before withdrawing it from commerce after the scandal caused in 2020 by the publication of Consent by Vanessa Springora.
“A publishing house like this is a family adventure, and its disappearance leaves a huge void,” the general director of Éditions Léo Scheer, Angie David, told AFP.
“Léo was apart, with his extraordinary intelligence. We consider him an inventive, creative genius, in addition to an extremely generous, very fair man,” she added.
Léo Scheer published in 2023 an original book of memories, “Manifesto of the Anarchist Party”, which looked back on his Polish Jewish origins and his own professional, intellectual and political journey.
Stateless child
Born in 1947 in a refugee camp in Bavaria, arriving in Paris as a stateless child, he participated in the May 68 revolt, then became a doctor in sociology in 1972.
In the 1980s, he turned to advertising, joining Havas, and worked for the renewal of the audiovisual landscape. He was part of the team that created Canal+, then joined Publicis which launched a competitor, M6.
After becoming interested in communication and telecommunications, he started as an editor. “I told myself that there was only one thing that would not change, and that was the book. So I wanted to start creating beautiful works, the old-fashioned way,” explained- he at Corse Matin in 2015.
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