When was your home based publishing and why giving him that name?
In the case of (strange) Face Green, the publishing house was founded in 2008 in the wake of a magazine which bears the same name that exists on it since 1995. The journal itself is named after the novel by Gustav Meyrink, Face Green. If the green face has not yet published the author of Face Green, the name and the reference, however it is valuable - Meyrink embodies the diversity and depth of his work, literary fields Face Green has a mission to explore.
Why was this house?
hard to separate the review of the publishing house ... We will therefore address both. Xavier Legrand-Ferronnière, the creator of the magazine, has worked very well in the literature called fantastic. He created a series of fanzines in the 1980s, including a first face green, then a series of booklets reproducing texts in facsimile. In early 1990 a small team was formed around him, depending on meetings (Face Green is also, arguably, a friendly adventure.) Translators, collectors, publishers, researchers ... The first number the magazine is finally released in 1995, self-published and self-distributed in some bookstores. Joelle Losfeld, enthusiastic about the project, decided to edit it, which she did until number 13. The torch was taken up by Zulma for four issues. In parallel, Xavier Legrand-Ferronnière had headed home Losfeld editorial projects very close to the magazine, then created at Terre de Brume two collections that also allowed us to publish some thirty books. Gradually, of course, the desire to have a full control over projects before us ... Hence the creation in 2008 of a small independent publishing house, green face to the name, running parallel to the magazine. Parallel lines have recently joined as magazine, after two publishers 'external', now comes into the fold of the publishing house that his team has created.
What is your editorial?
Face Green, will be understood, is a house that focuses on literature of the imagination and the margin. To go fast, all that combines the taste of the strange and the supernatural than writing a deep and worked seduces us. What has long limited our scope to works quite old - the fantasy or modern horror under too often what Edith Wharton calls the mechanics literature. It is an immense scope for action - our language skills we have long limited to the areas French, Anglo-Saxon and German (which is not bad), but we have over time been able to receive input researchers and translators who helped us publish texts translated from Italian, English, Portuguese, Chinese ... Another direction that we value, that of literary archeology. The texts - especially the ancient texts - have a history, and it is important for us to present them in the context that they were born. This concern is present in the journal but also in some publications of the publishing house - one thinks especially witch Marais, Paul Busson, we published a comprehensive study of Michel Meurger on women-she-wolves.
Can you tell us about your catalog?
When the first titles of the house came out in late 2008 or early 2009, we realized there were many contemporary texts among them ... More than in the magazine! Since then, the balance was more or less restored. You still need us to assume our full reputation for elitism dusty! Joking apart, we have already published 10 books. Side contemporary novels - Balzac the Gold Taillefert Philippe Riviale, Double , John Collier, who is a tragi-comedy and sentimental supernatural, the very gloomy, labyrinthine Nuns from German Michael Siefener and Men Wax by Jean-Pierre Naugrette a pastiche Holmesian. Two collections of short stories: Back to Alpha Walker, the same Jean-Pierre Naugrette, a very nice variation on the theme of Medusa, and Lamont, Anne-Sylvie Salzman (The latter work has allowed us to indulge in another one of our fantasies, which is to provide the reader with adult illustrated books. Like the good old days ...). Former side, two long stories accompanied by studies The Swamp witch Paul Busson, Yue and Lau, The Maker of Moons , Robert W. Chambers, as well as the beautiful test Hanns Heinz Ewers dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. In the middle, a nice curiosity bilingual - Siren, a poem illustrated by one of our German colleagues, Stepan Ueding. A panorama complete with hundreds of authors previously published in the journal.
What's your news?
It is a multiple! An amicable separation with a Zulma, who published the magazine for four years and four numbers. It is the publisher Face Green takes the controls of the journal, and we return to a rate of two issues per year. 18, the next, therefore, be available in May 2011. The summary is being ... As looping books, we are finalizing the Studies death, Count Eric Stenbock, large decadent Anglo-Estonian few poems which have recently been put to music and interpreted by Marc Almond ... followed by two titles old French literature: a volume of tales of Jules Lermina esoteric, and Tales superhuman Victor-Emile Michelet. We will also have the good fortune to return to year two authors that the journal was discovered to French readers, Edward Heron-Allen and Ralph Adams Cram. And Robert W. Chambers with a collection of mostly unpublished texts. Perhaps a second volume of Anne-Sylvie Salzman. And probably before the end of 2011, a beautiful work of literary archeology that we keep the mystery for now.
In parallel, we will work on the dissemination and distribution of our books, too confidential for now. This requires further relationships with libraries, the team's presence in salons and day of the book. It is a painstaking job ... We will be at the show The other book of 11 to 14 November in Paris Area (of the White Coats) at room Pau from November 26 to 28, Sèvres Dec. 11 at St. Mande 22 and 23 January, and we will arrange a presentation / reading as part of the Library Instant, at the Halle Saint-Pierre (Paris), January 9. This also requires a new layout for the magazine and books, which readers will soon discover.
lot of work for a team that is composed of Xavier Legrand-Ferronnière, magazine editor and publisher, Elizabeth Willenz, translator from German, with the precision and sense of organization save us all the days of the disaster, Anne-Sylvie Homassel, translator of English, Norbert Gaulard, translator, but most distinguished archaeologist fantasy, François Ducos, a specialist in popular literature, and his illustrators so many other things and finally Michel Meurger, critic and essayist, the mainstay of the magazine with his scholarly studies of contextualization, rewarded, In 2007, for a grand prize of the Imagination.
sites to learn more about the Face Green
• www.levisagevert.com : presentation of the magazine, online bookstore and especially the great work of literature Xavier Legrand-Ferronnière , a work in eternal progression. •
www.zulma.fr / visagevert , blog
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