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Angèle Manteau and the Indonesian Connection. A Remarkable Story of the Flemish Book Trade after the Second World War

Angèle Manteau and the Indonesian Connection. A Remarkable Story of the Flemish Book Trade after... .,."UiI D .. . . . . < , .I,.~. BRILL ~ www.brill.nl/qua AngeIe Manteau and the Indonesian Connection. A Remarkable Story of the Flemish Book Trade after the Second World War Kevin Absillis University of Antwerp, Belgium Abstract The famous twentieth-century publishing house A. Manteau would not have achieved its literary success if the manager of the firm, Angele Manteau, had not been prepared to reach commercial compromises once in a while. In Flanders, publishing companies could not make ends meet with the sales of literary work alone: other activities to finance their less profitable and sometimes even loss-making novels and collections of poems were necessary. Even though Angele Manteau realised this and constantly tried to improve the profitability of her company, it never Bourished and occasionally experienced great difficulty. Towards the end of the fifties the publishing house was heading straight towards bankruptcy. At precisely the same time the Dutch publisher Wilhelmus van Hoeve (1899-1968) suffered some setbacks of his own. His main activity was producing scholarly books about Indonesia, but his business took a turn for the worse when diplomatic contact between the Netherlands and Indonesia was broken off. Among other things this meant that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

Angèle Manteau and the Indonesian Connection. A Remarkable Story of the Flemish Book Trade after the Second World War

Absillis, Kevin
Quaerendo , Volume 38 (4): 346 – Jan 1, 2008
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0014-9527
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1570-0690
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10.1163/157006908X363949
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.,."UiI D .. . . . . < , .I,.~. BRILL ~ www.brill.nl/qua AngeIe Manteau and the Indonesian Connection. A Remarkable Story of the Flemish Book Trade after the Second World War Kevin Absillis University of Antwerp, Belgium Abstract The famous twentieth-century publishing house A. Manteau would not have achieved its literary success if the manager of the firm, Angele Manteau, had not been prepared to reach commercial compromises once in a while. In Flanders, publishing companies could not make ends meet with the sales of literary work alone: other activities to finance their less profitable and sometimes even loss-making novels and collections of poems were necessary. Even though Angele Manteau realised this and constantly tried to improve the profitability of her company, it never Bourished and occasionally experienced great difficulty. Towards the end of the fifties the publishing house was heading straight towards bankruptcy. At precisely the same time the Dutch publisher Wilhelmus van Hoeve (1899-1968) suffered some setbacks of his own. His main activity was producing scholarly books about Indonesia, but his business took a turn for the worse when diplomatic contact between the Netherlands and Indonesia was broken off. Among other things this meant that

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Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: PUBLISHING HISTORY IN HOLLAND (1950 AND 1960S); G.B. VAN GOOR; PUBLISHING HISTORY IN FLANDERS; ANGELE MANTEAU; INDONESIA; W.P. VAN STOCKUM; WILHELMUS VAN HOEVE

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