Bernat Lesfargas, l'editor occità a favor de la Weltliteratur

After cultivating poetry and serving as a bookseller, translator and teacher, Bernat Lesfargas (1924-2018) founded the publishing label Fédérop in 1975 and was its director until 1999. The aim of this article is, on the one hand, to analyse how the education received and work in the book world influenced the awakening of the poet’s Occitan conscience, his support for European federalism and, consequently, the creation of the editorial project. On the other hand, we will try to respond to the way in which Fédérop’s publications contributed, within France, to eradicating de chauvinism of French literature and to getting-so called regional and postcolonial literatures into the world literary space, or, as Goethe would say, into the Weltliteratur. Finally, a balance sheet will be drawn up on whether the catalogue started by Lesfargas, with the new publishers, Bernadette Paringaux and Jean-Paul Blot, has maintained the poet’s legacy or not.