PIERRE GASPARD LÉVY

Pierre Gaspar Lévy settled in Paris in 1928, where he founded the publishing house Éditions du Carrefour . The center of the publishing program was initially the avant-garde magazine Bifur , published from 1929 to 1931, to which authors such as James Joyce, Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara and Gottfried Benn contributed. After the completion of the seventh issue of the magazine, Lévy transferred its editing to the French Communist Party, represented by Paul Nizan and Jean-Paul Sartre, for financial reasons, which however only published one additional issue (this includes, among others, Martin Heidegger's contribution "What is Metaphysics?"). In addition to the Bifur magazine, P. G. Lévy's publishing house also published several avant-garde novels.

Read :

• Du colportage à l'édition : BIFUR et les éditions du Carrefour : Pierre Lévy, un éditeur au temps des avant-gardes / Catherine Lawton-Lévy, 2004
• On redécouvre Pierre Lévy, l'éditeur oublié de «Bifur»