Pascale Casanova’s World of Letters and Its Legacies

Gisèle Sapiro is Professor of Sociology at EHESS and at the CNRS, author of The French Writers’ War (2014), La Responsabilité de l’écrivain (2011), La Sociologie de la littérature (2014 ; forth. Stanford UP), Les Ecrivains et la politique en France (2018), and Peut-on dissocier l’œuvre de l’auteur? (2020).Delia Ungureanu is Associate Director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature and associate professor at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of Time Regained: World Literature and Cinema (2021), From Paris to Tlön: Surrealism as World Literature (2017), and of Poetica Apocalipsei: Războiul cultural în revistele literare românești (1944–1947) (2012).

• 1 IntroductionGisèle Sapiro and Delia Ungureanu2 Critical Writing: The Value and Cost of Pascale Casanova’s Combative EthosClaire Ducournau3 Preface to the 2008 Edition of La République mondiale des lettresPascale Casanova; translated by David Damrosch4 La République mondiale des lettres in the World Republic of ScholarshipDavid Damrosch5 Reading Pascale Casanova’s World Republic of Letters in Eastern EuropeMagdalena Răduță; translated by Oana Fotache-Dubălaru6 Heralded HeroesMads Rosendhal Thomsen7 Pascale Casanova’s ExilesLaurent Jeanpierre8 Samuel Beckett and the World Republic of LettersThirthankar Chakraborty9 For a Theory of Relay TranslationsTiphaine Samoyault; translated by Paul Chouchana10 Linguistic Areas of Literature: Between the World and the NationsTristan Leperlier11 A Rare Pearl Passed from Hand to Hand: Cosmopolitan Orders and Pre-modern Forms of Literary DominationMichiel Leezenberg12 When Literary Relations EndJing Tsu13 Prizing Francophonie into Existence: The Usurpation of World Literature by the Prix des Cinq ContinentsMadeline Bedecarré