Literature

Al Dante

 
Founded in 1994, Al Dante aims to bring the most contemporary writing out of the margins. Al Dante publishes books—poetry, poetic and experimental proses, historical avant-gardes, theoretical essays, catalogs and artists' publications, anthologies, reviews—but also CDs (sound poetry, music), DVDs, journals, organizes and participates in events—readings, performances, colloquiums, exhibitions...

Al Dante's catalogue is integrated into that of Les presses du réel since 2018, and its program extended, in all its poetic and political radicality, within a new collection directed by Laurent Cauwet.

See also the Al Dante catalogue in distribution, for all titles released before 2018.
 
Series directed by Laurent Cauwet.
Laurent Marissal - Portrait d\'un terroriste en amateur d\'art
Laurent Marissal
Portrait d'un terroriste en amateur d'art
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Conversation on art, real and imaginary, in 13 tableaux between ex-Action directe member Jann-Marc Rouillan and painter Laurent Marissal.
Frédéric Neyrat - Impossessions primitives / L\'Anti-Terre
Amandine André, Frédéric Neyrat
Impossessions primitives / L'Anti-Terre
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
In this tête-bêche book, Amandine André's Impossessions primitives, a text identifiable as poetic, meets philosopher Frédéric Neyrat's L'Anti-Terre, singularly opening up the field of possibilities and thought.
Julien Blaine - 2023
Julien Blaine
2023
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Cyrille Bret - Cynanthropie
Cyrille Bret
Cynanthropie
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This book takes the domestic dog as an affective standard, a practical horizon and an index of a moral economy specific to the capitalocene.
Robert Cantarella - Les Carrossiers
Robert Cantarella
Les Carrossiers
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Benjamin Fouché - Merveilles du monde
Benjamin Fouché
Merveilles du monde
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Inducing daydreams, walking under hypnosis, thwarting curfews.
Charles Pennequin - Dedans
Charles Pennequin
Dedans
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Reissue of Charles Pennequin's first book, a lengthy text in which the author's writing is characterized by obsessive repetition, a breathless rhythm, a combination of introspective movement and prosaic elements, and a staging of proferation.
Carmen Diez Salvatierra - Matinées sans police - suivi de Guerre
Carmen Diez Salvatierra
Matinées sans police – suivi de Guerre
2024
text in French and Spanish
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Written with a sensitive ear to the present, Matinées sans police reveals a relationship with the world in which the intimate and the extimate assert themselves in all their political dimensions.
Jean-Marie Gleize - Je deviens (séances)
Jean-Marie Gleize
Je deviens (séances)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This latest book—part of a ten-volume series that began with Léman in 1990—takes up and redistributes the elements of an investigation whose main material is autobiographical. The author restores an imaginary "childhood" that he writes about in a poetic attempt to understand it, and never ceases to "become".
Denise Le Dantec - Scum, un rêve
Denise Le Dantec
Scum, un rêve
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Virginia Woolf and Valerie Solanas inspired a reverie. From there, a text unfolded in slippery formulas and furtive references that sometimes imploded into graphic and visual signs.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - LCDB (Le Culte Des Banni.e.s)
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
LCDB (Le Culte Des Banni.e.s)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
A trans-theoretical essay: Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux explores the arcana of artists' cult status through a kaleidoscopic series of portraits of "banished" visual artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and architects, from William S. Burroughs to Jean-Luc Godard via John Cage.
Paul-Armand Gette - L\'odyssée du 0 m.
Paul-Armand Gette
L'odyssée du 0 m.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
This catalogue offers a journey—an odyssey—through the work of Paul-Armand Gette, with the "0m." as a common thread, the manifesto gesture that has punctuated the artist's universe since 1974.
Virginie Lalucq - Liste des pages
Virginie Lalucq
Liste des pages
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poetic text on the influence of suffering and illness on the act of writing.
F.J. Ossang - Les guerres polaires, suivi de Les Chauffes de sang
F.J. Ossang
Les guerres polaires, suivi de Les Chauffes de sang
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Reissue of a book of poetry from 1984—perhaps F.J. Ossang's most incandescent poetic period—that never saw the light of day.
Attaques
Attaques #05
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A journal of critical and political poetry
Vincent Broqua - La langue du garçon
Vincent Broqua
La langue du garçon
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poetic investigation on desire, love and masculinity in the form of a constellation of texts, drawings and photographs.
Claude Favre - Alep – Quinze heures du matin
Claude Favre
Alep – Quinze heures du matin
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poem built like a long love song to the wounded Aleppo, to all the Aleppo of the world.
Jacques-Henri Michot - Au jour dit - Le 24 avril en France (1935-2022)
Jacques-Henri Michot
Au jour dit – Le 24 avril en France (1935-2022)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A series of samples taken every April 24, for eighty-seven years, from the most diverse sources (press articles, television broadcasts, book and film releases, speeches...): a mass of information that makes, from the smallest to the most imperious, the history of a country.
Jean-Luc Parant - Soleil explosion
Jean-Luc Parant
Soleil explosion
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The sequel, posthumous and almost completed, of the poem-fleuve initiated in 2020 by Jean-Luc Parant, which questions our being in the world with a freedom both new and timeless.
Démosthène Agrafiotis - Prolégomènes à une histoire de la performance en Grèce
Démosthène Agrafiotis
Prolégomènes à une histoire de la performance en Grèce
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A comprehensive overview of performance and action art in Greece, from its origins to the most contemporary practices.
Liliane Giraudon - Une femme morte n\'écrit pas
Liliane Giraudon
Une femme morte n'écrit pas
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.
Adriano Spatola - Vers une poésie totale
Adriano Spatola
Vers une poésie totale
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Undoubtedly one of the most important texts on the out of book poetry, both a documentary sum and a manifesto to underline the major role that the poetry and the poets have occupied and occupy in the whole of the transformations that have upset the the contemporary art field, considered by the amateurs and the researchers like a true bible.
José Vicente Anaya - Pèlerin
José Vicente Anaya
Pèlerin
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The second part of José Vicente Anaya's poetic trilogy, deeply rooted in the infra-realist movement founded in Mexico City in the 1970s, combining verse and prose, is marked by a formal experimentation anchored in the poet's life and his wanderings from the north to the south of Mexico.
José Vicente Anaya - Paria
José Vicente Anaya
Paria
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
José Vicente Anaya closes his poetic trilogy with a rereading of Mexican political history through the memories of his own wanderings.
Angélica Freitas - Rilke Shake
Angélica Freitas
Rilke Shake
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Rilke Shake—a humorous variation on the milkshake—summons part of the author's library (Mallarmé, Ezra Pond, Gertrude Stein, etc.) in poetic sketches that are in turn comical, burlesque, and absurd. At once trivial and erudite, this unbridled poetry explodes with images of parties—and the mornings after—, flashes of the street, and reminders of Brazil.
Julien Ladegaillerie - Effracte
Julien Ladegaillerie
Effracte
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poetic text fragmented into three parts each generating its own handicap in expressing the economy as alienation from life.
Patrícia Lavelle - Bye bye Babel
Patrícia Lavelle
Bye bye Babel
2023
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The collection of poems by the Brazilian writer, rewritten in French, in a process that includes translation and re-creation, combines with delicacy, ingenuity and great coherence a research on the relationship between language and Eros, personal reflections, extensive cultural references and philosophical questionings.
Julien Blaine - Le motier
Julien Blaine
Le motier
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The continuation by all means of an elementary poetry which develops always and still new poetic devices to restore the world.
Norbert Bugeja - Oublie qu\'elle n\'est pas là
Norbert Bugeja
Oublie qu'elle n'est pas là
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poetic journey through the anxious spaces of memory, explored here by one of the most powerful voices of Mediterranean poetry of his generation.
Ahmed Slama - Marche-frontière
Ahmed Slama
Marche-frontière
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A very personal literary narrative, with a singular writing, of a migrant's experience of wandering and borders.
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Alger-Tokyo - Des émissaires de l\'anticolonialisme en Asie
Seloua Luste Boulbina
Alger-Tokyo – Des émissaires de l'anticolonialisme en Asie
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Al Dante
A transversal vision of the affirmation of a global Afro-Asian South through the anti-colonial resistance and war diplomacy of Algerians in Asia and Japan, bringing together history, politics, political philosophy, and poetics.
Henri Lefebvre - Malo suivie
Henri Lefebvre
Malo suivie
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
In 132 fragments, Malo suivie publishes the desire of a man, the viewer-perceiver, for a woman known as Malo, formulating the lack and the attraction by means of the sketch.
Anthologie internationale de poésie contemporaine - 2. Brésil – Poésie intraitable
Anthologie internationale de poésie contemporaine – 2. Brésil – Poésie intraitable
2022
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This anthology gathers some of the most emblematic authors of the Brazilian poetic modernity, in its widest amplitude and with the intractable will to reveal its incessant reinvention.
Jean-Marie Gleize - Dans le style de l\'attente
Jean-Marie Gleize
Dans le style de l'attente
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
An exploration in thirteen chapters of the question of the name, in a poetic ensemble crossed by childhood, memory, and the obsession of the return.
F.J. Ossang - Génération Néant
F.J. Ossang
Génération Néant
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Reissue of the cult punk book by the transgender artist (filmmaker, musician, poet, writer...) Ossang, written in 1980 and first published in 1993, now impossible to find.
Frédéric Acquaviva - Enquête de flagrance pour musique létale
Frédéric Acquaviva
Enquête de flagrance pour musique létale
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
Frédéric Acquaviva, as Mozart of the assize court, questions, in this only known example of judicial sound art, justice and its functioning, but especially insists on the fragile barrier which separates criminals from honest composers.
Julien Blaine - Julien Blaine présente quelques-uns de ses amis Animaux-&-artistes
Julien Blaine
Julien Blaine présente quelques-uns de ses amis Animaux-&-artistes
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through a ready-made exhibition of works made by animals, the poet Julien Blaine offers a vision as comical as it is tragic of the art world, while trying to "establish a communication between the lost world and the contemporary world."
Myr Muratet - Manuel d\'écologie urbaine
Audrey Muratet, François Chiron, Myr Muratet
Manuel d'écologie urbaine ebook
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.
Paul-Armand Gette - Artémis & Paul-Armand Gette - 50 ans de rencontres & conversations
Paul-Armand Gette
Artémis & Paul-Armand Gette – 50 ans de rencontres & conversations
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
The very first major monograph of Paul-Armand Gette.
Benjamin Fouché - Du concept de féérie
Benjamin Fouché
Du concept de féérie
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A text declined in the form of axioms, corollaries or proposals, like an accumulation of pictures built over the course of social movements, and with the words of others (Marcel Proust, Jonathan Crary, Nathalie Quintane, Chrysippe, Karl Marx, Marie José Mondzain, Mario Tronti, Anne Parian, etc.), in order to question the gestures that make up the narrative.
Moëz Majed - Libellule
Moëz Majed
Libellule
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through a message of love, the writer evokes the memories and places of his own childhood and expresses a pessimistic and painful thought of a Tunisia adrift, which currently offers to its youth a dark future—while hoping that the light returns.
Jean-Luc Parant - Soleil la nuit
Jean-Luc Parant
Soleil la nuit
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if this word came from the origins.
Julien Blaine - 2021
Julien Blaine
2021
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Jalil Bennani - Des Djinns à la psychanalyse - Nouvelle approche des pratiques traditionnelles et contemporaines
Jalil Bennani
Des Djinns à la psychanalyse – Nouvelle approche des pratiques traditionnelles et contemporaines
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
A new approach to psychological suffering, integrating non-Western knowledge with that of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, in order to rethink the cultural and linguistic heritages and crossings that constitute a plural universal.
Jean Kempf - Les conquérants de l\'inutile - Photographes de conflits américains au tournant du XXIe siècle
Jean Kempf
Les conquérants de l'inutile – Photographes de conflits américains au tournant du XXIe siècle
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
American conflict photographers at the turn of the 21th century.
Jacques-Henri Michot - Un ABC de la barbarie
Jacques-Henri Michot
Un ABC de la barbarie
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
An alphabet book of the commonplaces of journalistic writing bringing forward its propagandist impact.
Attaques
Attaques #04
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
An journal of critical and political poetry: Leslie Kaplan, Rothenberg, arts and critical positions, an anthology of contemporary Central American poetry, a catalog of visual poetry, a dossier on the Brazilian concrete poetry group Noigandres, new translations of William Blake by Jean-Jacques Viton...
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