When was your home based publishing and why giving him that name?
Dubinsky Sebastian: Two years ago, in 2008. I chose the name " Zaporozhian " for several reasons. First, because it was pirates of the Don, and they refused to work for the Sultan of Constantinople. They have written a famous letter of insults that Apollinaire second reason was inserted in full in its Chanson du Mal-Aimé . Finally, the third reason, they are the only Cossacks who had joined Makhno and the anarchists during the Russian Revolution. It is a name rich with meaning for me. Independence, freedom, humor, provocation. Everything is there.
Why was this house?
To give the texts considered "non-viable" commercially, can emerge. This is a nano-virtual house, I might add, to non-profit, that is to say nobody wins the money. You can download the texts for free, or ordered as printed books - in this case, you pay the cost of printing and postage.
I also wanted to put some records straight, re-creating the Zaporozhian (I say "re-create," because I started a literary zine free of the same name in 1991 in Tours , who had four issues), combat some misconceptions about the publication. Many writers dream of being writers, to live by their pen and taking it nice for the rest of their lives. It is imperative to get rid of this romantic idea that exists only as a decoy and justification as unworthy of a cultural situation deplorable. A writer is not someone who sells. A writer is someone who can not live without writing. This is not the same thing. By creating a home where I myself am forced to buy the books I publish - if I want them as objects - I gave the value of the writing center. If you are published by me, you, for me, a writer. If you have sold only two books, and that you downloaded only fifty times, you're a writer. This is not the number of readers, it is their quality. As I often reminded, Stendhal had only one player, but it was Balzac . Kafka worked all his short life as an insurance agent, Bukowski as postman and was Mallarme English teacher ...
What is your editorial?
Me. I am my own line. I'm open, inquisitive, intolerant. Like or I do not like - I can refuse a perfect text, but said nothing to me, as I can publish something "imperfect" but where I see the potential. There are no readers, there is no editorial board for the journal, there's me and my responsibility. My taste.
Can you tell us about your catalog?
There are many things, and many countries. I publish all forms - fiction, poetry, theater. I have some texts from Brazil, Germany, Senegal, Bangladesh, U.S., France, etc.. To get an idea, go check it out.
What's your news?
I just published a wonderful novel Thibault Vivies , My little owned me - for me, one of the greatest young contemporary French writers, halfway between Beckett and Celine , who built a work, both literary and virtual. François Bon has noticed too, and has published on his excellent site, Publie.net . It's a unique voice, disturbing - and deserves to be included in a catalog house "established."
I will soon release another text Thibault Vivies, My lad, Company past days, which is somehow "more" of my little Property me. And I'm going to start making the magazine's No. 9 The Zaporozhian will be, I warn you, absolutely beautiful.
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