[spectre] The Brave Young Publishers

[Le St. (oo)]

Post-net writing goes back to paper.

Who : Co-editors Mathias (R) et François Richard (L), founders of the
publishing house "Caméras Animales".

Why they are hot :  "Caméras animales" is an independent publishing house
based in Tours and Paris. Only a few years old, it is dedicated to
alternative French literature by new authors. Thirty-something editors are
trying to establish themselves on the tough playground of countless French
publishers by launching unconventional, marginal writers emerging from the
Internet, video game and rock'n'roll universe. Language is harsh, edgy and
on the verge of experimental literature. Alternative authors themselves, and
so not necessarilly finding favour with mainstream publishers, M & F Richard
are staunch defenders of hard-core rebels of the literary world, on the far
side of any easy writing.

One of the star writers is the 'wild at heart' Thierry Théolier with his
book "Crevard". He is a founder of The Hype Syndicate, a huge Parisian
underground net community aimed at exchanging party schedules in order to
gate crash them and claim thier own part of the high society. By definig
himself as "crevard" (outsider, marginal, down and out) and "artist with no
deed", Thierry Théolier stages performancies in "off" art galleries and runs
a few net newsgroups and community blogs.

For Whom : Though reading their books is a tough task for non-native French
readers, "Caméras animales"  has great potential as feeding ground for
literary specialists and fans of the digital pleasures, undergroud
literature, net communities and rock'n'roll. The new generation of
out-of-the-net and post-net writers is definitely in.

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