Éditions Ring
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| Traded as | Société par actions simplifiée |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 |
| Founder | David Kersan (a.k.a. David Serra) |
| Country of origin | France |
| Headquarters location | 10 rue de l'Arbalète 75005 Paris |
| Publication types | Documents, Ring Blanche, Ring Noir, Murder Ballads |
| Official website | Official website |
Ring is a French publishing company founded in 2012 by David Kersan, also known as David Serra. It publishes thrillers, novels, non-fiction and comics. It is considered to a have far-right political position[1] and publishes material from controversial authors.[2]
History
[edit]Ring was established in 2012[3] in the same vein as the magazine Sur le ring.[4]
Authors published by Ring include Stéphane Bourgoin, Joël Houssin, Laurent Obertone, Zineb El Rhazoui, Frédérique Lantieri, Dominique Rizet, Philippe Verdier, Ghislain Gilberti, Norman Mailer, Jocko Willink and Marsault.[5]
In January 2016, Ring started a pocket-side collection called La mécanique générale,[6] where successful titles are reprinted after two years. In 2019, the stand of Ring at the Brussels Book Fair was vandalised.[7][8]
Ring had a 785 000-euro revenue and a 130 000-euro benefit by late 2013, which Les Inrockuptibles stated was
an impressive number given the small catalogue — around 40 books — and small team
In 2014, revenue fell below 250 000 euros.[3]
Xavier Raufer has been involved with Ring.[3]
Collections
[edit]- La Mécanique Générale (LMG) :
- LMG Documents : news, social reporting, personal accounts and non-fiction
- LMG Thrillers : fictions, thrillers
- Ring Blanche : general literature
- Ring Noir : thrillers, police drama
- Murder Ballads : documents and true crimes
Editorial stance
[edit]Scholar Pascal Durand has qualified Ring as being typical of a "neo-reactionnary" posture.[9] Libération sees Ring as a component of the Far Right, and has criticised its promotion of texts is deems to be xenophobic (La France Orange mécanique by Laurent Obertone, a compilation of crimes partially attributed to children of immigrants; Une élection ordinaire by journalist Geoffroy Lejeune, a fictional account of the election of Éric Zemmour for President of the French Republic); of climato-sceptics (such as a book by former meteo journalist Philippe Verdier).[10]
J.-L. Hippolyte, from Rutgers University-Camden, quotes a short portrait of Maurice G. Dantec, one of the star authors of Ring, by founder Serra, as being a "Christian Zionist, pro-American, anti-laic, counter-Revolutionary militant.[11]
A reporting on "the Far-Right attack on publishing", Ellen Salvi, a Mediapart journalist, states that in 2016,
within four years, it had settled in the media landscape by publishing fiction and non-fiction that was deliberately inflammatory, promoted by anxiogen advertising as well as by an aggressive usage of social media.[12]
David Serra has rejected the "Far-Right" qualification, stating that he "cares little for politics" and that "it is not because [he had] published a couple of Right-Wing authors [that he shared their opinions]. Les Inrockuptibles underlined that
the magazine Sur le ring, founded by the very same Serra, has nevertheless been quite politically oriented, as its motto states: it is about ‘‘bombing that dirty humanist atmosphere’’. "Ennemies" are angrily listed: ‘‘Altermondialists, rappers, feminists, antiracists, bobos’’…[3]
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ "Ring, des éditions qui sentent le soufre - Œil sur le front". oeilsurlefront.liberation.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
- ^ "Une exposition du dessinateur Marsault déprogrammée à la suite de menaces". FIGARO. 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2019-02-15.
- ^ a b c d Moreau, Alexis (2015-12-12). "Les Inrocks - Ring, l'éditeur trash qui défie les poids lourds du marché". Les Inrocks. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
- ^ magazine, Le Point (2012-06-23). "Les éditions Ring, passeurs de nouveaux mondes" (in French). Retrieved 2016-09-26.
- ^ Catalogue sur le site de l'éditeur.
- ^ RING. "Éditions Ring - Maison d'édition de thrillers, true crimes, document d'actualité et biographies musicales". ring.fr. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
- ^ "Foire du livre: le stand de Zineb El Rhazoui saccagé". lacapitale.be. 15 February 2019.
- ^ "Mais que fait une dessinatrice bordelaise dans l'affaire du stand saccagé d'un éditeur à Bruxelles ?". rue89bordeaux.com. 20 February 2019..
- ^ Pascal Durand (2015). "Le marché des radicaux libres. Sur quelques conditions médiatiques de la posture « néo-réactionnaire". Quaderni. 2 (87): 101–118. Retrieved 3 August 2017.. Via Cairn.info.
- ^ Robin d’Angelo (15 January 2017). "Ring, des éditions qui sentent le soufre". liberation.fr. Retrieved 16 January 2017..
- ^ Hippolyte, Jean-Louis (2009). "Paranoia and Christianity in Maurice Dantec's Crime Fiction". Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature. 33. doi:10.4148/2334-4415.1693.
- ^ Ellen Salvi (June 2016). "La droite extrême à l'assaut du livre". Revue du crieur. No. 4. p. 125.
