Gérard Berreby

Gérard Berréby (b. 1950, Tunisia) is a French publisher. In 1982, he founded Éditions Allia in Paris — the name a reference to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain — which he continues to direct.

Allia began by publishing works at the margins of the French literary and political canon: the Situationist International and its precursors were central to its early program. In 1985, Berréby compiled and published Documents relatifs à la fondation de l'Internationale situationniste, 1948–1957 — the first comprehensive scholarly archive of the movement's origins. Subsequent titles on Guy Debord, Raoul Vaneigem, and figures of the lettrist milieu established Allia as the primary French publisher of Situationist material. Over four decades, the catalog has extended to encompass critical philosophy, rare literary texts (Kafka, Musil, Sade, Léautaud), foreign fiction, music criticism, and works in the tradition of the historical avant-garde. Allia books are recognizable for their distinctive pocket format and graphic rigor.

Berréby himself began publishing his own writing in 2010 with Stations des profondeurs (Allia), followed by Rien n'est fini, tout commence (with Raoul Vaneigem, 2014). He was also editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal Feuilleton from 2011.