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Publishing the Last Drop by Christopher Sedierta

Based in Strasbourg, Editions the Last Drop few years have built a catalog of great wealth, in French literature and foreign literature. Christophe Sedierta presents his house.

Bartleby: When was your home based publishing and why giving him that name?

Christophe Sedierta: The last drop has published its first books in February 2008.
When we had the idea for the publishing house, we wanted a name that summed up our mood at the time (and still is ours today): both the emergency ambivalence, the need to do something that we take to heart. A small explosive side also, if possible ...!

Why was this house?

By passion for literature and to defend the texts that we take to heart.

What is your editorial?

We love literature biting, the texts that confuse (in the original sense of the word), text acids, texts that make you think the player without the bother. We love authors who are not afraid to face the darkness of the world and manage to turn it into a literary surprisingly powerful.

Can you tell us about your catalog?

Our catalog is built gradually, with a consistency and compliance with our editorial line. We publish novels and, more rarely, short story collections. We publish
few (4 pounds per year), our means are limited. Moreover, post to publish does not interest us: we must take the time to actively defend the texts are published, without which they have no chance of finding an audience. Publicize its work, arousing curiosity, is there more difficult for a small publisher.
We favor foreign literature (personal taste) while trying to publish at least 2 to 3 pounds of non-francophone authors per year.
Regarding Francophone literature, we receive manuscripts (100 to 150 per year). It is very rare that we retain. The books of Anne and Isabelle Gallet Flaten ( Imposture ), Marie-Agnès Michel ( The joy rats) and Thierry Aue ( Man too) we have reached in this way. Then there are the authors we have already published and with which we are a long way. We do not forbid to reprint books that are close to my heart. That's what we did with Jacques Sternberg, an author we are trying to rediscover two extraordinary novels: The offense and A business day.
In terms of foreign literature, our publications are the result of our research, we read, advice of friends, contacts with foreign publishers or translators. For now, our foreign domain extends to Germany, Switzerland, Argentina, Italy, Hungary.

What's your news?

We publish, October 7, 2010, an unpublished novel written in French entitled confabulation, a great German author Jakob Wassermann.
friend of Thomas Mann, Arthur Schnitzler, Rainer Maria Rilke and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who admired him, Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934) was a major figure in German literature from Twentieth century. Justice-loving, relentlessly criticizing selfishness that makes the bed of hatred and oppression, deeply attached to his dual identity, Jewish and German, which he questions the compatibility, convinced that the writer and the poet must to raise awareness, he met an international success before falling into oblivion. The richness of his work, a victim of Nazi book burnings, the force of his style and his outstanding storytelling won him being compared to Balzac and Dostoevsky.

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The Rich and The Business

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A campaign on the run

The candidate Freddy Bernal in the streets of Catia. ( Photo: Seb )

Hugo Chavez is everywhere in the countryside and it irritates the opposition. If the president has suspended the Sunday program "Alo Presidente" for the election period, the fact not multiply unless the televised speech to defend "their" candidates. Posters on the United Socialist Party (PSUV) the message is clear: "The PSUV candidates are candidates of Chavez." Freddy Bernal is one of them. The former mayor of Libertador (the largest municipality of Caracas) is not decided. The former policeman is an emblematic figure of the "Chavismo". Since the beginning of the campaign, it increases foot traffic in the barrios, the poor neighborhoods of Caracas. Today, his career includes the popular district of Los Frailes de Catia, west of the capital. The man has a keen eye and hair graying. It is a red shirt, color dear to bolivars. Throughout his career, he shook hands, stopped at the doors of houses where we sometimes get calls, like this one that also serves as a small community store that provides food missions of government or in the medical center run by two female doctors Cuban (including work as a radio and a library). "With these elections, the backbone of the revolutionary process is at stake for the socialist project continues to develop as an alternative to capitalism, we need to approve a series of laws to create a legal and political structure," explains Does not stop.

"We are convinced that alternative to capitalism is the state municipal (centered on the communal councils, ed.) And it is based fundamentally on the organization, participation and inclusion of the majority ", says one who has served two terms as head of the Liberator. At first contacts the candidate to municipality Bernal still work, receives in any case the logistical support of his press team. Asked about opposition complaints about possible favoritism, he replied: "We are the majority. And the advantage we have built with our forces from below. We have built As you can see here, with the humble people of the barrios of Caracas. These people are members of municipal councils, committees of land, health committees, power houses, etc.., They are not civil servants, it is the leaders of our country and they are grassroots activists. " The new parliament will he have to sacrifice themselves to give way to the popular power, a kind of communal councils of National Assembly? "For now it is not expected. Political processes are not determined by decree, they are developing. We are convinced that the National Assembly and the municipal authority can work together. There is no contradiction because members are the spokesperson and the expression of communal power. "But Mr. Bernal believes that the mechanism of representation of the current National Assembly is obsolete:" The men and women in parliament will be the expression of the community ".

Betzaida Fernandez, a member of the City Council of Los Frailes, participates actively in the candidate's visit Freddy Bernal in his community. She is proud to show the progress made in organizing local and ensures the need to consolidate the revolution: "If we lose the House, we lose everything we have built over the last eleven years ".

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Article published in the Swiss daily Le Courrier September 21, 2010

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"We need more popular pressure "

Last May, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) submitted to a vote of its activists select candidates who represent the legislative elections on 26 September. On this occasion, more than 2.5 million members had traveled to participate in internal polling. A large figure but actually represents less than 40% of over 7 million members claimed by the party. According to Raúl Cazal director of El Diplo, the Venezuelan edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, these 2.5 million people who moved the primaries are those that can really be regarded as activists: "The 7 million support the process They are there, pay attention to what happens, but do not fit in any political discussion. However, 2.5 million activists it is huge, in any country. "

Ambition PSUV since its creation was to allow new faces to emerge, but until now the main party leaders are executives who occupy high positions of government. The internal election, however, allowed a revival. "A lot of party candidates for upcoming elections are so far unknown persons. This will undoubtedly change the face of the National Assembly," says Mr. Cazal, who is also vice-president of the Agencia Venezolana de Noticias, the official news agency. Indeed, during the internal poll last May, only 22 incumbents were returned as candidates for 110 positions available (recorded vote), for which s'affrontaien 3500 "pre-candidate". Furthermore, 52 additional candidates (voting list) were directly appointed by the president of the PSUV, which is none other than Hugo Chavez. These 52 names are on them from for most of the traditional device.

voting base therefore, somehow, to punish the incumbents. And I must say they do not really popular, even among people who support the "Chavismo". Despite the absolute majority it has enjoyed over the past five years, numerous bills have remained in the refrigerator, as was the case with the law to establish a coordinated national public health or the new Labour Act (including reduction of working time and the creation of workers' councils in enterprises). The law on gun control is, meanwhile, still under discussion in the Assembly, its treatment has been "reactivated" after the recent tough opposition media campaign on the acute problem of urban violence. The return of the opposition in parliament would it beneficial to boost the presidential camp? Raúl Cazal to elect a new generation (44% of candidates of the PSUV are under 30 years) is not enough: "I think we need more public pressure, not only the pressure of the president, nor that of the cons-revolution. We need to pressure those who are on our side, the side of socialism. Because without that, without popular mobilization, we will not get any change and members will continue to rest on their laurels. "

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Article published in the Swiss daily Le Courrier September 21, 2010

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Pensions

If everybody (or almost) agrees the need for reform of pensions, the government's project raises many objections. And for good reason. Though far from reducing inequalities, it only makes them dig. Inequalities between workers and managers, between men and women, between those who have careers and those who have conventional career heckled, among those working in large firms and those working in TPE ... A review of the inequalities that this project will widen .





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editions Zanzibar by Lawrence Blain

Last April, I spoke here even a very strange novel, Midnight private Kris Saknussemm published by a young publishing house: Zanzibar. Laurent Blain, its founder, we present:

Bartleby: When was your home based publishing and why giving him that name?

Laurent Blain: Zanzibar was established January 10, 2009 and published his first book, after a year of preparation, January 10, 2010.

Nothing very poetic name search. I wanted to at least one Z and three vowels was Zizanie pretentious Zinzolina too precious, Zingaro was taken Zenana and confusing. Needless to say I've never set foot in Zanzibar. Moreover, wrote Rimbaud, is a country where one never happens. The one I wanted to cross Zanzibar, it is this small band of rabid, gathered around Philippe Garrel and Sylvina drink, a little before 1968. There was Alain Jouffroy, Danielle Pommereulle, Nico, Serge Bard, Bernadette Lafont ... They made a dozen films, unavailable today, and have disintegrated in the desert with dignity, drunk bickering, tired of experiences and saturated with drugs. It's a story that I want to edit, that one.

Why was this house?

I created Zanzibar because the books have been since I was little my family alone and reading my only serious occupation - mean: serial, serial. Can not, for one reason or another, get a book is a torture. And I know no happiness greater than a joy to read. Obviously, I should become a writer myself. But I quickly learned that I would not force character. Too soft chin. Of late, I'm back and I decided to help others to become. This support is the work that I prefer in Zanzibar. Close protection, I suggest, I correct, I stand, I give the general sense that the author did not often seen in his work. I try to make him understand that it takes two to write, and three as soon as possible. My real goal with this house would make a small mutual authors and readers who would support, encouragement, will reliraient, criticize themselves and a small traveling circus and planetary for whom nothing is impossible.

What is your editorial?

I'm links. On the internet, through networks, in the press, the telephone, on the back covers ... Literature is an ice palace. The books are reflected into each other. Are woven together in a parallel reality, which, as the grass grows through the middle. What distinguishes an editor is his ability to cash in one day a little more gigabytes of information than others, without his head exploding. I'm on the lookout for new emotions and explanations, however much even they are not yet formally accomplished. So I like this particular form of fiction that draws from every genre and dares to new interpretations, even to confuse the reader. This is one reason why I feel close to the Americans, for whom the world is a puzzle to decipher or to cross a border. All on a very user cool that I can not find among French writers - it's true I know least well.

Can you tell us about your catalog?

Very nice, different every year. The books have a future only if are also beautiful objects. Hence the Quarterly we go out two or three times a year, always in unexpected materials and manufacturing complex. When you have it in hand, we do ask more questions on the dematerialization of media. Any more than if it were to scan an office chair or table where you eat. In history books have never been so beautiful, for as cheap to manufacture. Even paperbacks can become companions safe and durable. Taking houses like Steidl, or Tashen MacSweeney's, we will never more beautiful in publishing. The books have reached perfection at the same time as the car: a Mercedes-AMG SL 65, question engine, equipment, comfort and safety is unsurpassable. While in Zanzibar - where no one is truly a professional - you say: "Let's make a little. "

What's your news?

I saw a great personal adventure with an American writer who has published some thirty novels, about 250 new, and probably many other things, which is currently based in 24 cartons of the library of the University of Tulsa. This guy is dead in 2002 and none of his books is more available in any language, including his own. He has done nothing for his posterity. Single, alcoholic, devout Christian, he has started writing once past their fifties, and never stopped until his brain, who lived permanently overheated, exploded in flight. It was classified as science fiction, although his contemporaries ranged rather under the "unreadable". Pronounce his name, file already is in reality a corner of strangeness: Raphael Aloysius Lafferty. We begin this month (September) the reissue of a number of his texts. For example the new The World as Will and Wallpaper , based on the designs of William Morris tapestries, or The Fourth Mansions, a novel that is an analysis of different forms of government and also an impressive gloss Book Mansions of Saint Teresa of Avila. Soon emerge 900 Granny and Not to mention Camels, which are pure jewels of intelligence and humor and imagination foutraque. I built everything around it a sort of little secret society, which has branches all over the world. It that Pynchon is little to compete with Lafferty in onomastics: Stencil, Slothrop, Benny Profane or Vonda Brock are wonderful discoveries, but expect to know Arouet Manion, Nastasia Ethic-Smith, Enniscorthy Sweeny, Long John Tong, hmm 'Tyrone and Constantine Quiche! I am very certain that Pynchon has read Lafferty.

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Publishing Asphalt by Estelle Durand and Claire Duvivier

This new section gives a voice to independent publishers so they can present their work. Estelle Durand and Claire Duvivier, founders of Asphalt Editions are the first to answer my little questionnaire.

Bartleby: When was your home based publishing and why giving him that name?

Estelle Durand / Claire Duvivier: Asphalt was born on the terrace of a café in early 2009 ... Everything was formalized in July and the first works came out in May 2010.
The name choice was not easy! We brought our choices on "Asphalt" because we liked the sound and the word conveyed to us a whole imaginary spoke, one of the road, nomadism, travel which - we hope! - Is just beginning ...

Why was this house?

A common desire that goes back several years ... Something more about the fantasy of the mad dream. Then, in early 2009, he found that the desire has always added the availability, budget, ideas for more precise ... It was now or never. Once it seemed possible to achieve our vision we had at heart to bring it to the end.

What is your editorial?

We publish fiction in gravitating spheres of cons-cultures, the imaginary city, travel within the meaning of the term. Only line, we like to talk about "spirit" Asphalt. If for the moment is foreign literature which is put forward in our catalog (except for the anthology Paris Black published last June), we do not we close to the French authors. It is rather a question of circumstances, beating heart. We do not forbid, we expect to succumb to a text, a voice, an author.

Can you tell us about your catalog?

He is still at its beginning ! For now, three titles are available: Wildcat free fall of Mudrooroo , the route of a young Métis aboriginal released from prison that plunges the reader into the cons-culture of the 1960s in Australia Apples and , Richard Milward of a contemporary vision of the myth of Adam and Eve, played by two teens today operating in an industrial city in northern England. Finally, Black Paris, anthology directed by Aurélien Masson , is the first title of the series 'Asphalt Black' in which each book will be dedicated a city, revisiting the perspective of black literature, neighborhood by neighborhood.

What's your news?

Our first literary season, under the sign of Argentina! The program of this academic year has two components. On the one hand, we have a first novel by a contemporary author, The Moles of Felix Bruzzone : a short text, mesmerizing, dreamlike, which renews the treatment of the issue of missing the Argentine dictatorship. On the other hand, the Etchings from Buenos Aires , unpublished collection of texts in French Roberto Arlt : snapshots incisive and sardonic, but not without tenderness, of Buenos Aires in the years 1920-1930, its streets, its people, its language as a true literary journey, both geographically and temporally. Plunge today in these etchings is like sitting at a sidewalk cafe and people watching, attitudes, catch snippets of discussions, bursts of life and city.

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Why Do Spanish People Have Big Eyebrows

" The positions of pro-Chavez student leaders tend to be conservative "

Andrea Pacheco is a student of the School of Political Studies at the Central University of Venezuela. At 22, she is also member of Youth United Socialist Party of Venezuela (JPSUV) and the youth movement of Marea Socialista, a group of radical leftists in the PSUV. We met last May at the first national meeting of young people of Marea Socialista in Caracas.

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What assessment do you do with the election of 10 young militants of the PSUV in primaries for parliamentary elections in September?

First, we read of these primaries that 44% of applicants are under 30 years. This means that he really is a sense of renewal that spoke from the base of the PSUV. This means that people no longer wanted the same and it also reflects the need to renew the party cadres. Finally I think it's very positive for the youth that these comrades are involved as owners, to a lesser extent, and in a greater percentage as alternates.

I also think that this need for renewal is likely to strengthen during the elections of 26 September. Despite the fact that these young people are already known, however, they have never held important positions either in government departments, or elsewhere. They need to discuss actually with the base of youth and they strengthen the JPSUV through their applications. Because they are members of the JPSUV, they were not, however candidates from a debate within the JPSUV. This means they are actually candidates of JPSUV convene only when the basis of youth to build a program, an alternative, and thus strengthen the organization of the youth.

What is your opinion regarding the political dynamics within the JPSUV?

Youth Marea Socialista attended the founding convention two years ago. But since there were many organizational problems. The JPSUV does not organize its basic cells as such. There are very few that work at the national level and very little lead active work in political, community or culture. In reality, there are many more cultural or community initiatives from small isolated group of students organized as a youth at the national level with channels of communication that would ensure a real democratic centralism type operation. The dynamics of JPSUV has so far been relatively sparse.

Explaining that in recent years this is the right which is the most successful in attracting young ?

In Venezuela the number of students has increased (by almost 300%) to the extent that the revolutionary government has created mechanisms to integrate population education in middle and upper. But the student movement which is taken as reference by the media and in terms of mobilization, usually comes autonomous universities. It is a movement that once was part of the most radical left the country, against the governments of the Fourth Republic, but today we see that the revolution has not won in its ranks this sector middle class, which is that these universities but also schools.

There has been a process of élitisation autonomous universities in the early 90 (strengthening of admission, decreased free services to students such as scholarships, transportation, etc.). Today's middle and upper classes are those that dominate these institutions. All this has intensified in recent years when the leftists (mainly professors and student leaders) began to assume positions of government. There was also an expulsion of many executives revolutionary students of the Central University of Venezuela in 2001, which has strongly influenced the student movement. The current situation is a consequence of the fact that we have abandoned the university and that this gradual élitisation, combined with a speech very unattractive for the youth, prevented us to have mass influence. JPSUV basically has no specific policy in relation to this area. The only action that took place were sectarian and helped expel the university students, to polarize them, refer them over to the right instead of trying to win the event, to interact with them.

"Youth do not may feel excited by the speech of young people who call to defend the government, which called to defend the law, to defend the police "

Another point is that the positions espoused by Chavez student leaders tend to be conservative. Today those who throw stones are students right! Unlike the 1980s, today it is the left who asked not to go demonstrate, to remain in class, not to strike. Instead, we Marea Socialista young people think we're in a transition period of the transformation of the bourgeois state. And it is precisely because we are in a transition phase it is necessary to throw stones, it is necessary to claim, to organize. We do not need to defend the vices of the bourgeois state!

This speech defending the state alienates youth earned a more radical discourse. Youth, especially youth and students of universities, has historically been the trigger for many revolts and revolutions. As was the case during the May 68 in France, Cordobazo in Argentina, or the fall of the dictatorship of General Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela here. Youth can feel enthusiastic about the speech of young people who invite to defend the government, which called to defend the law, to defend the police.

What is the position of Youth of Marea Socialista, in order not to fall in claims from the right but not play the game of the bureaucracy?

Youth of Marea Socialista is born precisely from this characterization: the various student movements in the process decreased significantly. Many organizations were born with the revolution that limit youth, they prevent the continued participation of their members, they impose the political line. And finally what are organizations that are negotiating positions and privileges for students and executives who do not help to further the process.

This allowed Marea Socialista to the debate on the table and make a proposal: to organize an autonomous youth that does not depend, in terms of its political line, of any State institution, which includes a young internationalist that socialism is not possible in a single country, it is necessary to extend it, to stand together and especially to bet on the organization of revolutionary sectors in other countries. We want to build a youth class that understands its role as a student movement that attempts to amplify articulation with the labor movement.

How was constructed Youth Marea Socialista internally, how did it evolve? Marea Socialista

is essentially a stream of workers born with the creation of the PSUV. Marea Socialista has developed its youth movement since last year. The fact that we try to build a national youth is an important step. Initially we were active on Caracas today we are trying to make contacts in other states and national campaigns. We want to create a Youth that actually exists, is active in the struggles and is not just a list.

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interview published in the journal Inprecor August / September 2010