Viewpoint Magazine
Publisher and Revolutionary (1969)
The most pressing problem for me is knowing whether publishing is a means of revolutionary activity.
François Maspero
was a French author, translator, journalist, editor, and publisher. He was also the owner of La Joie de lire, a radical bookstore in Paris.
An Interview with Maspero: “A Few Misunderstandings”
I only crossed the authors’ paths, I was a little like a sponge absorbing something and then letting it out again. As it happened, I provided some format for their work – but nothing more.
The Long Struggle of François Maspero (1976)
This is what interests me, more than ever, in the books that I publish: not the empty gesture of an isolated individual, but the outcome of a long collective process that opens onto another.