TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a Sociology of a Singularity in the Book World:
T2 - Vitor Silva Tavares and his &etc Publishing House (1974–2015)
AU - Cameira, Emanuel Chaves Pimenta Cabral
N1 - UIDB/04209/2020
UIDP/04209/2020
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article looks at &etc, a small, independent, Lisbon-based literary publishing house that began publishing books on the eve of the Carnation Revolution (1974). It was not “just another case” in the Portuguese literary publishing scene of the last four decades. It went out of business in 2015 following the death of Vitor Silva Tavares, the publisher and life and soul of &etc. Its main traits included a return to certain forms of craftsmanship and knowledge, rejection of a purely mercantile relationship with books, promotion of marginal literary discourses, and association with specific aesthetic groups. Broadly speaking, the purpose here is to underline some analytical concerns and concepts (singularity, biography) that can be used to achieve a historical and sociological understanding of &etc and its practices, thereby improving knowledge of the literary publishing field in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Portugal.
AB - This article looks at &etc, a small, independent, Lisbon-based literary publishing house that began publishing books on the eve of the Carnation Revolution (1974). It was not “just another case” in the Portuguese literary publishing scene of the last four decades. It went out of business in 2015 following the death of Vitor Silva Tavares, the publisher and life and soul of &etc. Its main traits included a return to certain forms of craftsmanship and knowledge, rejection of a purely mercantile relationship with books, promotion of marginal literary discourses, and association with specific aesthetic groups. Broadly speaking, the purpose here is to underline some analytical concerns and concepts (singularity, biography) that can be used to achieve a historical and sociological understanding of &etc and its practices, thereby improving knowledge of the literary publishing field in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Portugal.
KW - Literary Publishing
KW - Singularity, Biography
KW - Portugal
KW - &etc Publishing House
U2 - 10.18848/2691-1507/CGP/v18i01/13-23
DO - 10.18848/2691-1507/CGP/v18i01/13-23
M3 - Article
SN - 2691-1507
VL - 18
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Information, Medium, and Society: Journal of Publishing Studies
JF - Information, Medium, and Society: Journal of Publishing Studies
IS - 1
ER -