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