As many publishing houses are located in the same country (or even in the same city), it is necessary to zoom in on the country or city you are interested in to see all the publishing houses.
Graines de Pensées
Graines de Pensées publishing aims to contribute to the cultural expression of Africa, to the development of critical thinking and of a democratic and pluralistic society through the book.
They are concerned with offering accessible books to African children, adapted to their realities and aspirations and of impeccable editorial quality. In addition, for a better dissemination of the book, they participate in co-publishing projects with partners from the South and the North. They also work for synergies with institutions and companies for a better promotion of the book in French and African languages.
Graines de Pensées publishing started their activities in 2005 with a solid editorial experience and broad network of contacts in the French and English editorial sectors through the International Organization of the Francophonie, the African Training Centre for Publishing and Dissemination (CAFED), the Network of African Publishers (APNET) and the Afrilivres Association.
Kouméalo ANATE ; préface Tanella BONI
Tchotcho EKUE ; Kokou TONGNEVI
Edem KODJO
Contact : Yasmin ISSAKA-COUBAGEAT
Ferdosi
Box 45095
SE - 104 30 Stockholm
Sweden
Tél: (+46-08) 32 30 80
www.ferdosi.com
Based in Stockholm and founded in 1984, Ferdosi has, in addition to being a publisher, been a key distributor and supplier of books and periodicals.
We cooperate with publishers and distributors throughout the world in order to provide individual and organizational clients with their requests and demands, through our contact services and multilingual website. Ferdosi has a broad list of Persian books published throughout the past 30 years by a range of publishers outside Iran. The list is available on Ferdosi´s website and can be searched by the title, name of the writer, etc.
Ferdosi works with libraries worldwide as a main supplier for minority languages published outside the country of origin. Individual customers equally benefit from our service through Ferdosi´s website.
As a publisher, Ferdosi has published valuable books in Persian and Swedish, mostly dealing with Persian literature, or informative texts about Iran and the Middle East.
Ferdosi publishes a Persian-Swedish magazine under the title of Norrsken (Northern Light), which is intended to be a step toward preserving Persian literature and culture among Farsi speaking and non-Iranians interested in Persian language and culture.
Ferdosi is the name of Iranian national poet who wrote the famous book for Shahnameh to rescue Persian language from Arabic influence.
Naakojaa / éditions le non-où
89 rue du Ruisseau
75018 Paris
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 42 64 44 21
www.naakojaa.com
Naakojaa is a digital publisher based in France that launched in February 2012 with the aim of creating greater access for the audience of Persian literature.
Based on our readers’ embrace of world literature on digital platforms, we, too, decided to keep up with technology to help Persian speakers around the world.
Audiences now can legally and easily purchase Persian literature from iTunes and Amazon.
Statistics show that these digital platforms are becoming more popular because of accessibility and the ability to publish easily, which makes it possible to be sold for a reasonable price while protecting authors’ rights under copyright law.
Contact : Tinouche NAZMJOU
JC Sáez Editor 
El Retiro 4853
7630227 Vitacura
Santiago
Chile
Tél: (+56) 2 3253148 / (+56) 2 3260104
www.jcsaezeditor.blogspot.fr
At the time of its foundation in 1920, JC Sáez Editor (formerly Dolmen Ediciones) was a publishing house specialising in textbooks and extracurricular books. It is now specialised in the dissemination of ideas in key areas of modernity, such as humanities, biology, pedagogy, economics and management. JC Sáez Editor’s catalogue also includes emerging voices and renowned authors from Chile’s national body of literature (poetry, essays), and comic strips, general trade literature, which enables it to go beyond continental borders with a rich and varied offer. To secure its diffusion, JC Sáez Editor relies on a distribution and collaboration network at local level in the main Latino-American capital cities.
Rafael Echeverría
Marx sostuvo que, a diferencia del socialismo utópico del pasado y de varias propuestas socialistas y anarquistas de su época, su contribución se caracterizaba por ser científica. Su aporte teórico cruzaba del pantanoso terreno doctrinario al territorio firme de la ciencia. El pensamiento marxiano, proclamaba el mismo Marx, tenía estatus científico. Ese era, según él, su rasgo distintivo fundamental. Ese mismo rasgo fue posteriormente uno de los grandes atractivos que para muchos teóricos parecía ofrecer el marxismo. Sin embargo, en aras del rigor, cabe preguntarse: ¿Cuáles son los criterios de cientificidad en los que se sustenta esta afirmación? ¿Cuál es el concepto de ciencia que propone Marx? ¿Se ciñe su contribución a dicho concepto?
Los ensayos reunidos en este libro, que pretenden dar respuesta a estos interrogantes cruciales, forman parte de la investigación que Echeverría realizara a fines de la década de los setenta y que sirvió de base para su tesis doctoral en la Universidad de Londres. Hoy, por primera vez, son presentados en un mismo volumen. Las conclusiones a las que arriba el autor no dejarán de sorprendernos y difícilmente nos dejarán indiferentes. Esperamos que sean capaces de suscitar reacciones y debates, de manera de avanzar en una evaluación que permita situar la obra del gran pensador que fue Marx en un lugar apropiado, más allá de la idolatría o de la demonización.
310 páginas - 22,50 dólares - ISBN: 9789563060843
Francisco Varela
“Lo que he querido desarrollar en estos ensayos es una comprensión del fenómeno de la vida en toda su gloria y majestad. Esto quiere decir evitar caer en la tentación dominante de partir del universo impersonal y muerto de la física para luego verse forzado, casi a contrapelo, a rescatar de ahí lo vivo, cuya especificidad es lo individual creador de significado. Gran parte de la ideas que aquí presento son precisamente el esfuerzo por romper ese sueño newtoniano, y por recentrar el fenómeno de la vida sobre sus propias bases, es decir, no como evento improbable que escapa a la muerte física, sino como ocurrencia central de la naturaleza que funda todo conocer y, en particular, el conocimiento del mundo físico. La conclusión a la que estos ensayos apuntan es que lo central es una circularidad inalienable entre el acto de conocer y vivir, entre el universo de lo vivo y el conocer como objeto de estudio. Dicho de otra manera, el fenómeno de la vida, como un todo, quiere decir, precisamente, que el acto de vivir precede a la explicación del origen de la vida sobre la Tierra. Que el conocer precede a la comprensión del conocer visto como mecanismo biológico y neuronal. Que la experiencia vivida es la base misma de la exploración científica de la conciencia.”
474 páginas - 31,75 dolares - ISBN: 9789563060812
Cristián Reyes
El proyecto denominado “Herramientas para la Formación de Profesores de Matemáticas”, tiene como objetivo contribuir al mejoramiento de la calidad de la formación pedagógica y disciplinaria de los estudiantes de pedagogía en matemática, a través de la incorporación de una Metodología de Estudio de Casos y el desarrollo de una colección de Monografías de contenidos matemáticos.
243 páginas - 25,02 dolares - ISBN: 9789563060782
Contact : Juan Carlos SÁEZ
Forough
Jahn Str. 24
50676 Cologne
Germany
Tél: (+49-221) 923 57 07
www.forough-book.com
Forough Publications and bookshop were founded in 1998 by the Mehdipour family in Cologne, Germany, with the aim to publish books that were banned in Iran.
Murder of Kasravi was the first book published by Forough in 1998. The intention was to publicize the truth about the death of Ahmad Kasravi, the Iranian famous critic of Islam. They continued their work by publishing memoirs of ex-prisoners of the Iranian Islamic regime.
Forough Publications now follows three orientations: literature, humanities and social sciences, and information. The publishing house wishes to call attention to Persian-language literature, but it also translates, publishes, and distributes works by German authors like The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink and The Fall of the Islamic World by Hamed Abdel-Samad.
Forough Publications has published more than 150 titles in different genres such as poetry, novels, children’s books, biography, and nonfiction books.
In addition, Forough supports the Persian educational programs outside of Iran by publishing and internationally distributing Persian textbooks.
Samad BEHRANGI - Translated to German by B. BINIAZ
Asad SEIF
Asaf SEIF (born in 1957 in Bandar Anzali) is an Iranian writer and researcher. He has been living in Europe since 1984 and is engaged in literary and cultural activities. He is a member of Iranian writers in exile association and was a member of its board of editors for one term. He has published numerous articles and studies in the field of social analysis and literary criticism. His latest study on “Love in fiction by Iranian writers in exile” is published by Forough Publications.
14 euros - ISBN: 978-3-943147-10-0
Aramesh DOSTDAR
Aramesh DOSTDAR (born in 1932 in Tehran) is an Iranian philosopher, writer, scholar and a former philosophy lecturer at Tehran University. He moved to Germany in 1958 to study philosophy in University of Bonn. From 1973 to 1980 he taught philosophy in the University of Tehran, until his dissmision during closure of universities by the Islamic government in the so called Cultural Revolution. Aramesh Dustdar who is currently living in Germany, is probably one of the few Iranian philosophers in the western meaning of the word. He is known for both complexity of the language but clarity and precision of ideas expressed. .
Four of his books have been published in Persian, 2 of them “Dark Luminosities” and “The Hidden Kinship” by Forough Publications.
He is uncompromising on controversial and sensitive issues such as incompatibility between Islam and democracy or the situation of intellectuals in the Muslim world, as, in his view, a real, Western type intellectual can not be tolerated in any Muslim society.
The murders of political and intellectual dissidents and opponents in the Islamic Republic of Iran are a “brilliant” example of that antagonism between Islam and democracy, he points out.
443 pages - 22 euros - ISBN: 978-3-943147-09-4
Contact : Anahita MEHDIPOUR
Responsable : Hamid MEHDIPOUR
F&G Editores
31 avenida “C” 5-54, zona 7
Colonia Centro América
01007 Guatemala
Guatemala
Tél: (+502) 2439 8358 / (+502) 5406 0909
www.fygeditores.com
F&G Editores is a Guatemalan independent publishing house founded in 1994. 18 years after its creation, it is about to become a leading publishing house in Central America, both because of its authors, publishing list and contents, and also because of its distribution network. Despite the challenges of a high illiteracy rate in the country and a total absence of State support for publishing, F&G Editores has survived. Moreover, it has consolidated its position as one of Guatemala’s leading publishing house. Not affiliated to any party, this publishing house commits to building a democratic and peaceful society, in which human rights are fully respected; a priority for the Guatemalan society who experienced more than 36 years of internal armed conflicts and from which it is still recovering. F&G Editores publishes Guatemalan and Central American literature of various genres and has been singled out as being the only non institutional Guatemalan publishing house who publishes books addressing the issue of collective historical memory.
Contact : Raúl Figueroa SARTI
Atlas for Publishing & DistributionAtlas Publishing was established in the late 1950s by Samar Haddad’s father, the present director of the publishing house. Atlas was one of the first bookshops in Damascus. In 1963, academic books were among the first works on its publishing list, followed shortly by many other titles. In 2002 Samar Haddad became the editor of Atlas and gradually took over as the head of the company. She remained true to her father’s motto: the book is the premier tool of knowledge and should therefore be within everyone’s reach. Atlas Publishing set up a translation division and a distribution division, while continuing to publish titles of relevance to readers, in keeping with an editorial policy promoting quality and the highest standards of technical production.
Atlas in Greek Mythology is the Titan who is condemned to hold the earth for eternity, and our logo shows him holding the Globe in one hand and a book in the other hand. This is the idea of my late father the founder of Atlas Publishers back in the fifties.
Read here the interview with Samar Haddad, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (November 3, 2016).
Michael SOMMER
Translated from German by Dr. Nabil Al Haffar
In this brief research, ancient civilization scholar Michel Sommer provides an exemplary model of a study in the science of history, which assimilated Assmann’s ideas about the theoretical field productively. Concerning the civilizational history of the region extending between the Mediterranean and the Tigris River, in the late Greek and Greek times, it is a sensitive and controversial research in fact, not because it explores the historical roots of the civilization region, which the Romans called Syria - and it is today implicitly and brutally involved in gang and proxy wars, in a form of “third world war”, according to the diagnosis of many observers - but because in his analysis of social models and religious systems in the late Greek and Greek era, he paints a new, humanistic picture of the different cultures of the empire and their intellectual status.
Michael Sommer has succeeded, by being realistic and exciting at the same time, in shedding lights on the past that shows every concrete detail as part of a tangled relationship, as it opens up horizons, that questions and doubts current “clichés”!
2020 - 224 pages - ISBN: 978- 9953 -583 -93-8
Boutros AL MAARI
This book offers pleasure to the eye as well as to the mind of the reader. Neither the texts are the basis for it nor the drawings, but rather they complement each other to produce an art book that we rarely find in our libraries. Al-Maari tries to be as simple as his paintings, simple in his texts and ideas that he calls stories and that are not without a poetic whiff or literary value. Damascus also is strongly present in his texts and he is not apologetic in showing his longing to his mother-city, so he celebrates it from a distance as if he is still walking in its streets and alleys like any young lover.
Through this book, Al-Maari tries to attract the ordinary audience - as he calls it – and lead them through the door of reading and savoring art from his simple yet sophisticated way of drawing and writing.
We hope that this experience will be a motivation for similar works by our writers and young artists, enriching our Arabic library.
2018 - 88 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-9242-6-3
Arabic
DOSTOEVKY
Translated from Russian by Adnan Jamous
Sheikh Hamad award for translation and international understanding for the achievement in Russian – Arabic translation
Doha – Qatar - 2018
This book includes a summary of rich experience, acquired by a creative person during his lifetime, with all the harsh tribulations and violent clashes, shameful slips, noble stances, and impressive creative achievements.
The writer monitored all the subtle aspects of the development of the “living life” and followed very carefully the reflection of its manifestations in the Russian and foreign press. Eyewitnesses state: that the writer used to review newspapers and magazines daily “until the last column of them”, and was keen to capture through the great diversity of important and secondary facts, its internal unity, its socio-psychological foundations, its spiritual-moral essence, and its philosophical-historical significance. It is interesting that some contemporary Russian intellectuals of Dostoyevsky considered that his genius was more evident in his “diaries” than in his “creative works”.
What gives this volume its added value, is that it is the first time that Dostoevsky is translated directly from Russian to Arabic.
2017 - 688 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-9242-1-8
Arabic
Contact : Samar HADDAD
Association internationale des Libraires francophones
20, rue des Grands-Augustins
75006 PARIS
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 40 51 11 45
www.librairesfrancophones.org
Contact : Anne Lise SCHMITT
LIBRE
R. Evaristo da Veiga, 16 - Sala 1506 - Centro
Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 20031-040
Brazil
Tél: +55 (21) 2253-9099
www.libre.org.br
Founded in 2002, LIBRE (Brazilian League of Publishers) has more than 150 independent publishers, representing around 15 000 titles in total. LIBRE was born from the organization of an independent book fair, which takes place annually in Rio and São Paulo and in which all member publishers participate: Spring of Books. LIBRE also participates, in Brazil and at international fairs, in debates on editorial diversity, the market question, the concentration of publishers in large groups and the internationalization of the book sector.
Contact : Tomaz ADOUR
Baile del Sol
Apartado de Correos, 133
38280 Tegueste
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Islas Canarias
Spain
Tél: (+34) 922 27 95 97 / 646 151 141
www.bailedelsol.org
Baile del Sol is a publishing house located on the Canary Islands, off the coast of the African continent. It was established in 1992 in the form of a cultural association. Its founders had already been involved for a number of years in the cultural life of the Islands, as fanzine publishing editors, for Orín Desteñido, and for literary and music magazines, for Baile del Sol. The objectives of this association were retained throughout the years and Baile del Sol remains true to these to this day. On the one hand, we offer the chance to become published to new authors and, on the other, an increased effort so as local authors from the Canary Islands be considered for themselves and not because of their geographic origins. Our catalogue is additionally open to authors from other backgrounds. America, Oceania, Africa and Europe are all represented. We are, therefore, an open-minded and independent publishing house.
Contact : Ángeles ALONSO
Sankofa & Gurli ÉditionsSankofa & Gurli is a Burkinabe publishing house created in 1995. With its creation, several objectives were fixed to promote literature while acting in various and complementary plans which include writing (support of and follow-up with authors), reading (communication with the public), and output and diffusion; to promote and revalorize the African languages, especially those spoken in Burkina Faso and transnational languages, across an editorial policy which avoids marginalizing publication in African languages (aesthetic of the form and the contents, topics, circulation of the publications...); to produce literature of quality at costs corresponding to the local purchasing power; to work to arouse in the children and the young people the taste for reading and writing, and anchor in them, as soon as possible, practices of output and consumption of the writing; in a general way, to contribute to the promotion, the development, and the reinforcement of culture, especially literary, in a context of generalized illiteracy. Since 1999, the contacts have been diversified, the commitments reinforced and widened: Sankofa & Gurli Editions participate with various partners (African, European, North American) in co-publishing projects;
Member of the Alliance of independent publishers, Sankofa & Gurli contributes to the debate and to the fight for bibliodiversity and solidarity in publishers’ independence across the world.
Le nom de la maison d’édition est double. SANKOFA est le nom de l’oiseau qui, dans la cosmogonie des peuples AKAN, symbolise la conscience historique. Son slogan est « Il n’y a pas de honte à revenir sur ses pas pour prendre ce qu’on a perdu/oublié en cours de chemin ». GURLI est le nom du hérisson en gulmancema. Il symbolise aux yeux du fondateur de la maison d’édition l’ingénuité enfantine et le caractère absolu de la liberté des idées. On racontait souvent aux enfants qu’il était impossible de garder prisonnier un hérisson. Toutes les tentatives par ces enfants d’en enfermer un se révélaient vaines, le hérisson disparaissait toujours de sa prison. Bien des années plus tard, l’enfant que j’étais (suis ?) a appris que c’étaient nos aînés qui libéraient le petit animal. Ainsi en est-il des idées : on a beau les enfermer, les emprisonner, il se trouvera toujours un moyen, une personne, une circonstance, qui les libérera...
Contact : Jean-Claude NABA
Mémoire d’encrier
1260 rue Bélanger, Bureau 201
H2S 1H9 Montréal (Québec)
Canada
Tél: (+1-514) 989 1491
www.memoiredencrier.com
Mémoire d’encrier was founded in March 2003 in Montréal by the writer Rodney SAINT-ÉLOI. It publishes works of fiction: novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, essays and accounts. Mémoire d‘encrier offers a varied catalogue that builds bridges between cultures and imagination in the North and South. The basic idea underlying our work is that of dialogue between cultures in a perspective of solidarity and of accepting the Other. Mémoire d’encrier is geared around a body of over a hundred works by authors from Canada, Quebec, the Caribbean, Native America, Africa, and Europe. The goal being to refuse exclusion and to redefine collective living.
Mémoire d’encrier : enraciner l’encre (l’écrit) dans le patrimoine oral. Associer la mémoire à l’écrit ; associer en ce sens littérature (écrits) et oraliture (traditions orales) ; assumer la continuité entre mémoire et modernité.
Jean FLORIVAL
Spectateur et souffleur, Jean Florival est dans l’œil du cyclone; à l’intérieur du régime, sans un quelconque titre officiel. C’est en témoin privilégié qu’il plonge dans l’intimité du pouvoir, relate des faits jusque-là inconnus du grand public. Ce livre a le mérite d’exposer avec sérénité des événements tantôt tragiques, tantôt loufoques, dans le dessein de refuser l’oubli, et de mieux comprendre cette tyrannie qui a endeuillé les familles haïtiennes, afin de sortir du cercle de l’impunité et de la logique bourreaux-victimes. Découvrez les frasques d’un pouvoir qui fige depuis un demi-siècle l’histoire et l’imaginaire d’Haïti.
Jean FLORIVAL est né en 1930 en Haïti. Journaliste, proche du régime duvaliériste, il a fréquenté le milieu du pouvoir haïtien. Ami et conseiller de ministres et de dignitaires du régime de 1957 à 1967. Se sentant menacé, il choisit l’exil en 1967, et part à New-York, puis s’installe en 1973 au Québec, où il a travaillé dans l’enseignement. Il partage son temps aujourd’hui entre la lecture, les conférences et l’écriture.
2008 - 29,95 $CAN - ISBN : 978-2-923153-92-6 - collection «Chroniques»
Jean BERNABÉ
Une dizaine de personnages, hauts en couleurs, issus de différents milieux sociaux et castes de la Martinique, sont mis en scène. Tous ces personnages, bigarrés, cocasses, hilarants, tournent sous le couvert d’un mouvement écologiste militant pour le changement social et se renvoient intrigues et hostilités. Le narrateur, pour différentes raisons, est l’objet de toutes les menaces. Jalousies, amertumes, ressentiments – mais aussi naïveté, trait d’esprit et générosité – servent de marqueurs à ces récits.
Jean BERNABÉ est né au Lorrain en Martinique en 1942. Écrivain et linguiste, il est le co-fondateur avec Patrick Chamoiseau et Raphaël Confiant du mouvement littéraire « La Créolité ». Il a été durant plusieurs années le Doyen de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l’Université des Antilles et de la Guyane.
En 1983, il publie “Fondal Natal”, la première thèse de Doctorat sur le créole antillais. En 1989, il signe avec Chamoiseau et Confiant, l’important manifeste Éloge de la créolité. Il participe ensuite à la reconnaissance du créole dans le milieu universitaire et scolaire par l’intermédiaire de la création du CAPES de créole. Fondateur du GEREC-F (Groupe de recherches et d’études en espace créole et francophone), il est l’auteur d’importants ouvrages dans le domaine de la syntaxe du créole, ainsi que de nombreux articles de sociolinguistique et de littérature.
2009 - 24,95 $CAN - ISBN : 978-2-923713-01-4 - collection «Roman»
Jean PRICE-MARS
“Ainsi parla l’Oncle” est le premier manifeste de la condition noire. Paru pour la première fois en 1928, l’ouvrage a influencé l’œuvre et la pensée des auteurs du mouvement de la négritude comme Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire et Léon-Gontran Damas.
“Ainsi parla l’Oncle” est suivi du collectif Revisiter l’Oncle qui réévalue les incidences et résonances de cette œuvre dans le monde entier. Revisiter l’Oncle accueille les textes de Maryse Condé, Dany Laferrière, Jean-Daniel Lafond, Raphaël Confiant, André Corten, Jean Bernabé, Léon-François Hoffmann, Maximilien Laroche, Jean Morisset, et bien d’autres.
Réédité dans un nouveau format, avec une iconographie nouvelle (paysages et figures de l’Afrique et d’Haïti), l’ouvrage propose une relecture de cette œuvre monumentale qui a servi de bréviaire aux intellectuels des peuples noirs. Pour penser le monde, pour comprendre les mécanismes de l’aliénation, soit du «bovarysme culturel», Jean Price-Mars a mis en avant les traditions, les légendes populaires, le vaudou et tout l’héritage africain qui fondent les cultures noires.
2009 - 39,50 $CAN - ISBN : 978-2-923713-03-8 - collection «Essai»
Contact : Rodney SAINT-ÉLOI
Les éditions de l’Atelier
51-55 rue Hoche - Bât. B - Hall 1 - étage 3
94200 Ivry-sur-Seine
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 45 15 20 20
www.editionsatelier.com
Globalisation, new information and communication technologies and individualisation are all radically overturning how people live and work, what they think and believe. L’Atelier hopes to help humanise this transformation, by encouraging the re-establishment of social ties and by making it possible for people from humble backgrounds to take a proactive stance in their own lives, through the publication of books in three fields: Christianity; culture and religion; social and human sciences.
True to the tradition of Editions Ouvrières, a publishing firm set up by the Young Christian Workers movement in 1929, L’Atelier aims to promote works that bridge different spheres of knowledge, that which is forged by experience as well as that which results from analytical work, for books to act as an agent of emancipation and enrichment of social ties for as many people as possible.
Contact : Gaëlle BIDAN
Metis Publishers
Ipek Sokak 5, 34433 Beyoglu
Istanbul
Turkey
Tél: +(90-212) 245 46 96
www.metiskitap.com/catalog/metisbooks
Founded in 1982, Metis Publishers has established itself as one of Turkey’s leading
publishing houses, renowned for defending its independent spirit and radical commitment, celebrating critical thinking, original talent, and bringing distinguished letters from the world to generations of Turkish readers. With over 800 titles to its name, Metis is reputed for its careful translations and editorial integrity.
Metis list includes both fiction and nonfiction, specializing in high literature and critical theory. Some of the literary authors published in translation are Ursula K. LeGuin, Marguerite Yourcenar, Salman Rushdie, Henry Bauchau, Georges Perec, John Berger, J.R.R. Tolkien and Maurice
Blanchot. The works of such distinguished Turkish authors as Murathan Mungan and Bilge Karasu are also published by Metis.
Metis nonfiction list features works of an interdisciplinary character that
have the potential to intervene in the cultural climate of Turkey from a
radical political perspective, such as those by Walter Benjamin, Max
Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Edward Said, Immanuel Wallerstein, Emile Cioran, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Nurdan Gürbilek and Nilüfer Göle. World-class literary theorists including Gyorgy Lukacs, Tzvetan Todorov and Mikhail Bakhtin, philosophers such as Paul Ricoeur, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Roland Barthes and psychoanalytic masters including Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Heinz Kohut are also amongst the authors Metis has published in Turkey.
Metis was the Goddess of Wisdom, first wife of Zeus, before he swallowed her up when she was pregnant and gave “birth” through his forehead to the next Goddess of Wisdom, Athena, who was “born from a man, fully armed”, whereas Metis was against the use of arms, worked with the knowledge of nature and used the skill of the craftsperson to solve disputes, like a captain navigating rocky waters.
Hence metis came to signify the “knowledge that the Power detests”, in addition to nobody, bastard, craftiness...
Cultural Climate of Turkey
by Vitrinde Yaşamak (1992) and Kötü Çocuk Türk (2001)
A collection of essays on Turkey’�s cultural climate in the last decades from a most insightful literary and cultural critic. The first two essays of this collection, “Life in the Shop Window” and “Return of the Repressed”, attend to the 80�’s � a period of radical economic, political and cultural change following the coup d�état of 1980. Nurdan Gürbilek argues that this was not only a period of oppression of speech but also a period of explosion of speech; an incitement to speech. A period when two seemingly opposed cultural strategies, the old one of repression, forbiddance and annihilation and the new one of provocation, assimilation and incorporation came together, weaving a cultural fabric that had significant results in shaping the cultural climate of modern Turkey. Gürbilek also argues that this was a period of cultural pluralism� - a result of the collapse of the modern Kemalist identity. Years of the “return of the repressed”; the voices that were previously repressed by the Kemalist project of modernization, the voices of the Islamic and Kurdish opposition, those of the lower and peripheral cultures, of women and queers and also the discourses of desire and sexuality returned to a relatively liberal cultural market ready to incorporate rather than suppress.
The following essays on Turkishness and evil explore the rather sinister cultural climate of the 1990�s and 2000�s when the efforts to redefine the Turkish identity predominated the cultural scene. She takes as her point of departure some of the significant images and tropes in modern Turkish literature and popular culture: popular arabesque songs of the 70s and 80s, the figure of the snob in modern Turkish literature, a news article on the death of a porn star, an oddly popular poster illustration, the child hero archetype in urban popular culture� With utmost care and justice Gürbilek weaves these into a keen understanding of their political, social and cultural significance, exploring Turkishness not as an autonomous and essentialist local truth but rather as an impasse always already shaped in relation to the modern world, as a double-bind that has always produced oppositional sentiments in the cultural sphere. This is where the desire to be the other coincides with the fear of losing one�s self in the other, where xenophilia is simultaneous with xenophobia, and the feeling of inadequacy is concurrent with a reflex of self-defense. And evil here has to do with the unleashing of all things dark and sinister when the liberal promise fails to deliver, when the shop windows cease to dazzle and the struggle for livelihood turns bitter in urban wilderness. Where do “Turkishness” and “evil” converge? And how do we gain insight into these moments of convergence?
By Bilge Karasu
In an ancient Mediterranean city, a tradition is maintained: every ten years an archaic game of human chess is staged, the players (visitors versus locals) bearing weapons. This archaic game, the central event of The Garden of the Departed Cats, may prove as fatal as the deadly attraction our narrator feels for the local man who is the Vizier, or Captain, of the home team. Their “romance” (which, though inconclusive, magnetizes our protagonist to accept the Vizier’s challenge to play) provides the skeletal structure of this experimental novel. Each of their brief interactions works as a single chapter. And interleaved between their chapters are a dozen fable-like stories. The folk tale might concern a 13th-century herbal that identifies a kind of tulip, a “red salamander,” which dooms anyone who eats it to never tell a lie ever again. Or the tale might be an ancient story of a terrible stoat-like creature that feeds for years on the body of whomever it sinks its claws into, like guilt. These strange fables work independently of the main narrative but, in curious and unpredictable ways, (and reminiscent of Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table), they echo and double its chief themes: love, its recalcitrance, its cat-like finickiness, and its refusal to be rushed. The Garden of the Departed Cats is a work of peculiar beauty and strangeness, the whole layered and shiny like a piece of mica.
Istanbul Culminating Session, 23-27 June 2005
Müge Gürsoy Sökmen (ed.)
“The records have to be kept and, by definition, the perpetrators, far from keeping records, try to destroy them. They are killers of the innocent and of memory. The records are required to inspire still further the mounting opposition to the new global tyranny. The new tyrants, incomparably over-armed, can win every war � both military and economic. Yet they are losing the war (this is how they call it) of communication. They are not winning the support of world public opinion. More and more people are saying no. Finally this will be the tyranny�s undoing. But after how many more tragedies, invasions and collateral disasters? After how much more of the new poverty the tyranny engenders? Hence the urgency of keeping records, of remembering, of assembling the evidence, so that the accusations become unforgettable, and proverbial on every continent. More and more people are going to say no, for this is the precondition today for saying yes to all we are determined to save and everything we love.”
� John Berger, from his message of support to the WTI
The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) was a collective effort involving hundreds of people worldwide, most of whom never met in person. About twenty sessions were held in various cities of the world, focusing on different aspects of the war on Iraq. The findings of these sessions were incorporated into a culminating session held in Istanbul on 23-27 June 2005. This book consists of the proceedings of that session.
A civilian initiative inspired by the Bertrand Russell Tribunal of the Vietnam Era, the WTI aimed to record the crimes committed in Iraq, to note the historical, economic and political reasons behind the invasion and occupation of Iraq, to document the extent as well as the details of the destruction caused, and to write a counter-history to that of the victors�. The texts in this volume, an assemblage of experts� and witnesses� testimonies, provides a comprehensive grasp on what an invasion today means.
We hope that this book, which is the result of a worldwide effort involving activists, lawyers and experts from diverse backgrounds, that is, a product of the global opposition to war, will feed back into the global movement, inspire new forms of resistance, providing information and grounds for action, be it for appeals to the International Criminal Court or the United Nations, or for the individual acts of resistance, including that of conscientious objectors.
Contact : Müge GURSOY SOKMEN
JamanaJamana is an organization of the Jamana Multimedia Cultural Cooperative. The company was created in 1988 to fill a void, because, at that time, there was only one publishing house, and it was state run.
Jamana was therefore Mali’s first private publishing firm. Jamana gives priority to publications geared toward young people and women in the national languages. It aims at being accessible to all Malian and foreign authors. Because we are aware that our country’s sustainable development requires the promotion of national languages, we strongly encourage their use in the education system. Over the past few years, particular focus has been put on publishing books for young people, as well as pre-education, textbooks, extracurricular, and academic books. Our battle against illiteracy finds expression in the promotion of our cultures and the defence of an economically viable publishing industry. As part of our pan-African aim, we encourage all kinds of partnerships: co-publishing, distribution, adaptation of books, copyright sale. Co-publishing has also grown somewhat, because we believe that the salvation of the African publishing industry necessarily depends on developing partnerships between African and foreign publishers.
Jamana signifie dans plusieurs langues africaines : le pays. Pour nous il s’agit du Mali bien sûr, mais surtout de l’Afrique. Notre logo : une carte de l’Afrique (tirée de la carte pour un monde solidaire ; carte un peu « étirée ») traversée par l’idéogramme bambara de la connaissance, le Mali occupant sa place. Pour nous, l’Afrique (et le monde) ne se développera qu’à travers une vraie solidarité.
Amadou BA
L’intérêt de cet ouvrage d’histoire est la démarche de son auteur. Amadou Ba, qui n’est pas historien de formation, combine sources orales et sources écrites pour enseigner l’histoire du Sahel occidental malien. Un livre d’histoire qui se lit avec plaisir.
1989 - 244 pages - 15 X 21 cm - 2 000 F CFA (3 €)
Namaké DIOMBANA
Nos contes et nos héros, les personnages les plus symboliques de notre terroir, du malin lièvre à la bête hyène,
en passant par la peureuse chèvre, le généreux roi et la belle princesse, se retrouvent dans Les contes du hameau, un recueil de contes savamment écrit par Namaké Diombana et ingénieusement illustré par Yacouba Diarra dit Kays. Une contribution à la connaissance de notre histoire à l’intention des enfants et aussi des grands.
2005 - 72 pages - 14,5 X 21,5 cm - 2500 F CFA (4 €) -
ISBN : 2-915032-39-4
Mama Kâaba SOUMARÉ
Les pièges du destin est l’histoire passionnante et riche en rebondissements de destins qui se croisent continuellement. Le roman met à nu les réalités d’une Afrique « moderne» paradoxalement accrochée aux traditions telles que la polygamie, la classification des hommes en castes, la grande autorité qu’exercent les parents sur leurs enfants. Il met en scène des acteurs incontournables, encore aujourd’hui, dans la société africaine : le griot, le devin, le tradipraticien. Par ailleurs, l’auteur explore avec beaucoup de réalisme l’amour, la jalousie, la douleur morale, mais aussi des qualités humaines devenues aujourd’hui rares telles que la générosité, le courage. Enfin, l’auteur aborde avec tact les difficultés d’un couple à vivre avec le VIH/Sida sous le regard de la société.
2007 - 15 X 22 cm - 6,11 € - ISBN : 2-915032-64-5
Contact : Hamidou KONATÉ
Ganndal
B.P: 542, Route de Lambandji- Ratoma
Conakry
Republic of Guinea
Tél: (224) 622 54 48 26 / 622 39 65 88 / 620 63 14 34
editionsganndal.blogspot.com/
A corporation legally constituted under Guinean law, Ganndal was created in June 1992. Its catalogue includes works in the following fields: textbooks, children’s and young people’s literature, general literature, coffee table books and publications in national languages.
Committed to working in partnerships, Ganndal has developed an extensive network of South-South and North-South collaborations. This publishing firm has thus produced a large number of books, of all genres, through co-publishing or co-production projects with foreign publishers.
Locally, Ganndal coordinates the activities of REPROLIG (a network of Guinean publishers) and is also an active member of the African Publishers Network (APNET).
Ganndal est un terme générique en langue pular (fulfulde) signifiant « éducation », «culture », « enseignement », « savoir », bref tout ce que porte et transporte le livre.
Read here the interview with Aliou Sow, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (May 9, 2017).
Listen here the interview of Aliou Sow (Ganndal), RFI, November 3, 2019.
See here the interview of Marie Paule Huet, Pauz Media, December 17, 2020.
Contact : Aliou SOW
Responsable : Marie Paule HUET
Les Éditions du FlamboyantFlamboyant was founded in July 1989 by several executives at the Beninese Ministry of Education together with a few French publishers. In a time of increased economic liberalism, Flamboyant has been a pioneer in Beninese publishing and one of the best publishers in the subregion with an average eight works a year. Flamboyant has invested all fields of literature and science, where it has a proven know-how and experience. In order to face the challenges of globalization and to promote bibliodiversity, Flamboyant has taken many pan-African initiatives, such as bringing publishers into associations like Assedib, Afrilivres…
A publisher, consultant and distributor of works of the mind, Flamboyant is now led by Dorothée Gérard Houessou. It is currently enjoying new-found energy and is sure to have a promising, flamboyant future.
Adélaïde Édith Bignon FASSINOU
Le Seigneur n’a t-il pas dit lui-même : «Si vous faites du bien au plus petit de ces créatures, c’est à moi que vous le faites ». Ananou écoutant cette parole de Dieu adopta deux orphelins qu’elle ramena du village ; un neveu et une nièce dont personne ne voulait, des enfants d’autrui, fils de personne...
L’amour qu’une mère donne à son enfant, chair de sa chair, sang de son sang, elle devrait l’offrir également à ces enfants que la Providence lui confie. Les enfants d’autrui qui n’appartiennent souvent à personne. C’est ce que l’héroïne, Ananou, a fait afin de soulager quelque peu la misère humaine autour d’elle. Réalisme ? Utopie ? L’œuvre d’art n’est-ce pas une invitation pour partager du rêve ? Le temps d’une lecture...
Adélaïde Édith Bignon FASSINOU épouse ALLAGBADA est née à Porto-Novo, au Bénin. Ancienne élève de l’École Normale Supérieure, elle a enseigné dans les collèges et lycées de son pays. Après une expérience à la commission béninoise pour l’Unesco, elle s’investit actuellement dans la formation des adultes à l’université et dans les écoles professionnelles.
2009 - 13,5 X 20,5 cm - 228 pages - 4000 F CFA (7 €) - ISBN : 978-99919-59-44-3
Yénikoye Ismaël ABOUBACAR
En réponse à l’apocalypse, l’Homo planétarus ne s’y est donc pas trompé en se mobilisant comme un seul homme, sur les cinq continents sans distinction de couleur, de conditions et religions, pour manifester son soutien et sa compassion. Dans le respect du deuil de tous ceux qui ont perdu un être cher, l’auteur magnifie cette puissance de l’âme humaine et en appelle à la conscience universelle pour bannir le racisme, l’injustice et l’exploitation entre les hommes et plaide avec ardeur pour l’annulation de la dette des pays d’Afrique et d’Asie.
Yénikoye Ismaël ABOUBACAR enseigne l’épistémologie génétique à l’université Abdou Moumouni Dioffo de Niamey-Niger. Enseignant Chercheur, Consultant International et Expert en Gouvernance, Aboubacar Yénikoye Ismaël a participé à l’élaboration du Rapport Africain sur le Gouvernance, de la Commission Économique des Nations Unies pour l’Afrique (CEA). Il compte parmi les experts du Mécanisme Africain d’Évaluation par les Pairs (MAEP) du NEPAD et participe à ce titre à l’audit de la gouvernance dans certains pays d’Afrique. Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages et articles sur la problématique du développement humain et de la gouvernance.
2007 - 15 X 21 cm - 252 pages - 6500 F CFA (10 €) - ISBN: 978-99919-59-38-2
Marc MONSIA
Nous livre une connaissance hermétique du vaudou ; c’est pour la première fois que la nature ésotérique des divinités du panthéon vaudou a été révélée en tenant compte des analogies universelles qu’incarnent leurs représentations symboliques. Le vaudou qui, au départ, dans sa conception originelle, était un pur mysticisme dont le seul but consiste en la réalisation de Dieu en soi. Il a connu des corruptions qui l’ont éloigné de cet objectif divin.
L’idée de Dieu, l’architecture quadridimensionnelle de l’homme, le principe de réincarnation, et de désignation du prénom adéquat de l’enfant en accord avec les Lois Universelles à travers le « djoto », ont été dépouillés de scories qui les encombrent et replacés dans leur compréhension originelle. L’ouvrage dévoile ici comment sous la marque du sacré, les Sages de l’aire vaudou occultaient leur connaissance des phénomènes naturels tels par exemple, les courants telluriques et des faits qui affectent l’humain dans sa double dimension psychique et physique. La thérapeutique en milieu vaudou revêt plusieurs formes mais, toutes se fondent sur l’harmonie des interrelations entre le corps et l’esprit en relation avec l’action des quatre éléments universels dans le corps et l’âme.
L’auteur, de nationalité béninoise est l’initiateur de la Gymnastique Hermétique GYMHER. De formation universitaire, professeur de physique, il est également éducateur culturel, spécialiste des questions des traditions initiatiques et religieuses. Parallèlement à ses occupations professionnelles, il poursuit ses recherches en science hermétique.
2003 - 13,5 X 19,5 cm - 182 pages - 5000 F CFA (8 €) - ISBN : 99919-41-41-X
Contact : Dorothée Gérard HOUESSOU
éditions d’en bas
30, rue des Côtes-de-Montbenon
CH-1003 Lausanne
Switzerland
Tél: (+41) 21 323 39 18
www.enbas.net
The éditions d’en bas (“from below”) published its first books in 1976, organised itself as an association in 1976 and then as a cooperative in 1991. In 28 years, more than 300 books have been published. The publishing house is founded on two pillars: a militant base of people who have adhered to the editorial policy, and the network of bookshops in the country. The output and translation of books is partly funded by state and private institutions/foundations, as well as by partnerships (co-publishing) with various non-governmental organisations and social movements. The books published by the editions d’en bas witness the hidden side of Switzerland, especially life “down below” in the working-class community. They can also serve in some cases as tools in the fight for rights; they can precede and accompany social struggles, or tell their story.
Essays and historical, sociological and political documents, testimonies, life stories, literary texts, translations – the books published by the éditions d’en bas explore the social field from the margins of history, politics, and society; they allow for the emergence of singular voices, of forgotten destinies and themes.
Par la littérature ou le récit de vie, l’essai critique ou le livre d’histoire, les éditions d’en bas rendent compte de « la face cachée » de la Suisse (et du monde). Des voix dissidentes, attachées aux passages de la mémoire. Les éditions d’en bas sont attachées à valoriser les langues, les populations et les cultures minoritaires révélatrices des structures d’oppression et de répression.
Read the portrait of Jean Richard and the éditions d’en bas published by Le Temps, September 4, 2020.
Contact : Jean RICHARD
Jeunes malgaches
51, rue Tsiombikibo Ambatovinaky
101 Antananarivo
Madagascar
Tél: (+261) 20 22 566 58
www.editions-jeunes-malgaches.mg
The limited company Presse Edition & Diffusion (PREDIFF) was founded in March 1995. Its core business is the subscription sale of foreign periodicals, managing international communication, the bookshop, card shop and since November 2004, the publication of children’s books. To date Éditions Jeunes Malgaches have published several tales and bilingual children’s publications: in February 2005, Maria Vakansy any Alaotra, in Malagasy; in November 2006, Maria Nahita ranomasina voalohany, in Malagasy; Marthe Rasoa raconte, two Malagasy tales written in French; in January 2007, Les Mésaventures de Milaloza, a French/Malagasy bilingual edition of a Malagasy tale, and in November 2007, Soza le pêcheur, a bilingual tale as well as ABDlire, a bilingual aphabet book.
Jeunes malgaches une maison d’édition spécialisée jeunesse qui veut rester toujours jeune au service de la promotion de la culture et la langue malgache.
Read here the interview with Marie Michèle Razafinstalama, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (November 21, 2016).
Cyprienne TOAZARA
Histoire illustrée en bilingue français/malgache
La pirogue de Soza n’a pas su franchir la barrière de corail et le pêcheur de langouste fait naufrage. Pourtant, il reviendra chez lui, pour le bonheur et la paix de tous. C’est le retour du justicier en terre du Sud.
2007 - 16 pages - 9 000 Ar (8 €) - ISBN : 978-2-916362-06-9
Arikaomisa RANDRIA (ill.) ; Max RAZAFINDRAIBE
Album bilingue illustré.
2017 - 16 pages - 23 x 23 cm - 11.000 Ar (8 €) - ISBN : 978-2-916362-82-3
Marie Michèle RAKOTOANOSY / Catmouse James (ill.)
Imagier en malgache
2017 - 36 pages - 14 x 14cm - 11 000 Ar (6 €) – ISBN : 978-2-916362-79-3
Contact : Marie Michèle RAZAFINTSALAMA
éditions du Sextant
185 bis rue Ordener
75018 Paris
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 42 23 26 54
www.editionsdusextant.fr
Founded in 2003 by Isabelle Pivert, éditions du Sextant publishes works in the humanities field – history, geography, history of thought and political science – with the aim of enlightening readers to help them gain insight into the world, position themselves and pursue their own path.
Our collections follow their own paths (and overlap?) joyfully: “Décodeur” (economic, social, political criticism: essays), “Géographique” (interactions between physical space and humankind and/or society: essays, biographies, travel accounts), “Résistance” (accounts, especially of WW2), “Récits” (accounts, especially on social issues). In the “Hors Piste” (“Off the Beaten Track”) collection, Sextant experiments and publishes their favourites in a “ragbag” collection.
Based in Paris, we are also developing a branch in Brittany (2008), in a place that’s propitious to creative processes and thinking, Le Pouldu.
Le sextant est un instrument de positionnement utilisé dans la navigation : grâce à cet objet, on peut faire le point avec le soleil et les étoiles, c’est-à-dire connaître sa position exacte sur la planète, et ainsi choisir son cap, son chemin propre sur un espace, la mer, espace de liberté. Je fais ici une analogie avec le livre, instrument de savoir, de connaissance, de transmission, sur soi et les autres, sur le monde, qui permet de choisir ensuite son propre chemin. Le livre-objet qu’on a dans les mains, qu’on touche et qu’on voit qu’on sent (le papier), et dont il faut apprendre à se servir, c’est-à-dire ici savoir lire et écrire, pour l’apprécier. Le livre-passeur d’histoires.
Vlada TRAVEN
“Un essai passionnant” (Le Figaro littéraire)
Dès la révolution de 1917, la datcha, maison de campagne du citadin, pose problème au régime soviétique : symbole bourgeois, mais aspiration populaire, symbole de “l’âme russe”, c’est une nécessité économique dans un contexte de pénurie. Utilisée initialement pour le repos collectif des travailleurs, la datcha devient sous Staline un privilège réservé aux seules élites. L’État, oscillant sans cesse entre pragmatisme et idéologie, “instrumentalise” la datcha, en réglementant son usage et sa construction. Architecte, l’auteur analyse à travers des témoignages et des textes législatifs, les tâtonnements, la lutte pleine de vitalité que la population entame contre ces réglementations. Ou comment la datcha, finalement, constituera l’espace de liberté et de survie des citadins soviétiques, avant de se transformer en “cottages” à la Disneyland dans la période post-soviétique.
Un cahier central de 50 photographies inédites (archives privées) en noir et blanc illustre toutes les périodes de la politique du pouvoir sur la datcha, des années 1920 aux années 1990.
Ce livre a été publié avec le soutien du CNL.
Née à Moscou en 1964, Vlada TRAVEN est architecte-urbaniste diplômée de l’Institut d’architecture de Moscou, et docteur en sciences humaines (2005). Ce livre est tiré de sa thèse. Elle vit à Paris depuis 1991.
256 pages - cahier de photos : 16 pages noir et blanc - 15 X 23 cm - 22 € - ISBN : 9782849780053
Entretiens au cœur des multinationales - Isabelle PIVERT
“La matière recueillie, exceptionnelle, inspire réflexions, agacements et frayeurs sur l’avenir de ce monde. Isabelle Pivert livre ensuite son analyse des multinationales, fruit de lecteurs croisées du fascisme en action (Robert Paxton) et des origines du totalitarisme et de l’impérialisme (Hannah Arendt) sans oublier le contexte historique et politique. Tout cela ne peut laisser indifférent”. (Politis, 2006)
Pour la première fois, des cadres dirigeants et un syndicaliste évoquent l’évolution du capitalisme depuis vingt ans. Loin des discours convenus des responsables politiques et des médias, loin de la propagande des multinationales (mais parfois certains l’ont complètement intégrée), certaines paroles poignantes touchent, d’autres troublent ou effraient autant par leur sincérité que par le rejet qu’elles inspirent. Car ce qui “se joue” là, sous nos yeux, et avec notre consentement, c’est la soumission totale des êtres humains au service du capital et de la technique.
Diplômée d’HEC, Isabelle PIVERT a conseillé pendant une dizaine d’années des multinationales. Elle a fondé en 2003 les éditions du Sextant. Elle est aussi l’auteur de “Plan social, entretiens avec des licencieurs” (2004) et de “La religion des 15%” (Le Monde diplomatique, mars 2009).
320 pages - 12,5 X 19 cm - 16,90 € - ISBN :
9782849780084
Hélène SARRAZIN - Introduction de Kenneth WHITE
Né en 1830 à Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (Gironde), Élisée Reclus est considéré comme le père de l’écologie politique. Géographe et théoricien, parmi d’autres, de l’anarchie, il est l’auteur de la célèbre Géographie universelle, publiée en dix-neuf tomes par Hachette, et d’autres ouvrages comme l’Histoire d’un ruisseau, Voyage dans la sierra Nevada, ou encore l’Évolution, la Révolution et l’Idéal anarchique. Historienne, Hélène Sarrazin raconte avec sa verve de romancière une vie d’aventures où les voyages, les épreuves sont autant de rencontres, d’observations et d’expérimentations sur tous les continents. Emprisonné, contraint à l’exil après la Commune de Paris, Élisée Reclus devient l’ami de Bakounine et de Kropotkine avec lesquels il développera ses théories anarchistes. Il meurt en 1905, à Thourout, en Belgique. Plus d’un siècle plus tard, la vie et la pensée d’Élisée Reclus résonnent singulièrement dans nos sociétés du XXIe siècle.
Hélène SARRAZIN, historienne et romancière, vit à Bordeaux.
Kenneth WHITE, poète d’origine écossaise, essayiste, a reçu le prix Médicis étranger pour “la route bleue” en 1982. Ses œuvres complètes ont été publiées par Gallimard en 2007. Il vit en Bretagne.
248 pages - 14 X 22 cm - 20 € - ISBN : 9782849780008
Contact : Isabelle PIVERT
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