Serge Daney - Bibliography

Bibliography

Daney published four books during his lifetime which are collections of his articles:

  • La Rampe (Gallimard/Cahiers du cinéma, 1983)
  • Ciné-journal (Cahiers du cinéma, 1986)
  • Le Salaire du zappeur (P.O.L., 1988)
  • Devant la recrudescence des vols des sacs à main (Aléas, 1991)

He also published a little-known book called "Procès à Baby Doc, Duvalier père et fils", a 1973 polemic against the Duvalier regime in Haiti written under the pseudonym Raymond Sapène.

In the years after his death, several other books have been released:

  • L'exercice a été profitable, Monsieur (P.O.L, 1993), a collection of the notes he took while watching French television in the early 1990s.
  • Persévérance (P.O.L, 1994), Daney's last project for a complete book for which he wrote the first chapter - the rest being the transcript of an interview with Serge Toubiana. It has been translated in English as Postcards from the Cinema (Berg, 2007).
  • L'amateur de tennis (P.O.L, 1994), a selection of articles he wrote in Liberation about tennis matches.
  • L’itinéraire d'un ciné-fils (Editions Jean-Michel Place, 1999), the transcript of the eponymous TV documentary.

Daney's complete writings (i.e. those not in the books above) have been published in French by P.O.L:

  • La maison cinéma et le monde 1 : Le Temps des Cahiers (1962-1981)
  • La maison cinéma et le monde 2 : Les Années Libé 1 (1981-1985)
  • La maison cinéma et le monde 3 : Les années Libé 2 (1986-1991)

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