About two editors chronic Dissipatio 
understand some concern the publishing world moves me to read every book written by editor or bookseller, I feel that I find out some secrets that then allow me to better understand an environment that still seems though such readings strained and affected. An activity halfway between romanticism, optimism and business. The variables could be more, but these three suffice to make the case a porcupine. But I insist, as the writers insist on trying to understand, so I gave a reading of The optimism of the will Jorge Herralde and political education André Schiffrin. Of Schiffrin, famous and legendary editor, was published by Peninsula of Herralde by Economic Culture Fund. Are not comparable, are not on the same path. Schiffrin's chronicle is an autobiographical account in which he recalls the story of his father and the founding of the Pleiade and the appropriation of library by Gallimard. The Herralde book instead is, as he usually does, a compilation of already published texts, lectures, reviews, speeches, presentations of books and texts written expressly for that matter, as "a sort of patchwork defines himself. Schiffrin has an obvious desire narrative seems Herralde instead the head of a troop guide you decide that after making a stop along the way and have certain stories, that although they have historical value, are affected by a high degree of complacency.
Schiffrin and Herralde however have two important points d and match: the political ideas they defend and exercise independent editorial. Both left but Schiffrin has made politics more daily activity, however Herralde interests appears to have waned after the rapture left behind and the charm of the party scene, Franco dropped. Editorial independence is both a defining characteristic. Anagram has been and will be an independent label that is governed only by the interests of its owner and editor, even at times can seem capricious. Schiffrin is undoubtedly one of the major reference of independent publishing in the United States, first from the Pantheon, then from New Press, publishing house he founded after Random House had been acquired by a major publishing groups that bring together the vast majority of the issues in the world.
The independence of these two editors is undoubtedly the largest and most important education, a Catalan perhaps more joyous than the other, that perhaps polished by flight, disloyalty or exercise counter to a trade besieged by the commercial desire, a desire to prevent their owners perceive where they go and where it is futile to do so, because only cause trouble and discomfort, like it or not understanding the world of books can never deliver the earnings that were in other markets.
"I know for certain, for my own recent experience and that of my colleagues, who leads a life much better and Happy outside the whale entered d "Schiffrin writes, which will undoubtedly also received Herralde, who masterfully by others define their slogan: "the work of a literary editor is not to sell products but to discover the best writers of his time and publish books in the most careful and exacting as possible. Hoping and stubbornness tirelessly to convince readers that they will be also necessary books. "
Schiffrin Whether he knows what it calls Herralde apply to booksellers. The latter warns recurrent closeness between the two professions and feel natural confusion of the boundaries that may divide them. (Pfa)
