Éric Losfeld

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Éric Losfeld (Mouscron, 1922 - Paris, 1979) was a Belgian-born French publisher who had a reputation for publishing controversial material with his publishing imprint Éditions Le Terrain Vague.[1]

He was the publisher of Emmanuelle (1967), two film magazines (Midi Minuit Fantastique and Positif) founded by Ado Kyrou.

He published a series of controversial erotic cult comic books, like Barbarella, created by Jean-Claude Forest,[2] Scarlett Dream by Robert Gigi, Epoxy by Paul Cuvelier and Jean van Hamme, the French edition of Phoebe Zeit-Geist, The Adventures of Jodelle and Pravda, both by Guy Peellaert. In 1967 he also published legendary psychedelic feminist comic book Saga de Xam by Jean Rollin. In 1970 Xiris by .

Losfeld's tombstone inscription reads, "Tout ce qu'il éditait avait le souffle de la liberté." ("Everything he edited had the breath of freedom.").

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  1. ^ Le livre érotique - Page 196 Olivier Bessard-Banquy - 2010 "Éric Losfeld, Endetté comme une mule ou la passion d'éditer, Paris, Belfond, 1979. 2. (Collectif), La Légende du Terrain vague, Paris, Le Dernier Terrain vague, 1977, p. 28. 3. "
    - French Twentieth Bibliography: Critical and Biographical Page 3843 1990 "[Losfeld, Éric]: " Portrait d'un éditeur: Éric Losfeld," Magazine Littéraire, no. 22 (oct. 1968). 32-34. [rï] [Propos recueillis par Emmanuel de Roux] [Censorship; Emmanuelle Arsan] 73180.
    - Alex Hughes, Keith Reader, Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture, p187, 1998 ("Éditeurs in this field include Éric Losfeld, a Surrealist who published erotic works clandestinely ('sous le manteau') and officially; Claude Tchou, whose Cercle du Livre Précieux series included erotic 'classics' and new texts;")
  2. ^ Pierre-Jean Rémy L'autre éducation sentimentale 1991 p318 "baissée dans tout un bric-à-brac érotico-surréaliste où Ado Kyrou le disputait aux publications d'Éric Losfeld, celles de Jean-Jacques Pauvert aux anciens numéros de la revue Bizarre."


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