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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