National audienceIn the 1950s and 1960s, the Éditions du Seuil occupied a singular position in the French publishing field: on the one hand, the publishing house, where books intended for the "general public" and others reserved for a cultivated readership coexisted, experienced rapid expansion; on the other hand, its gradual accumulation of symbolic capital was based on a "modernist" strategy of (measured) risk-taking: setting itself the objective of discovering young "talented" authors, it published many first novels. But while it is true that the Éditions du Seuil, dominated by the figure of their literary director Jean Cayrol, publishes young authors, it distinguishes itself from another leading centre of the French literary field of th...