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 series directed by Laurent Cauwet.
 
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305 titles
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Jean-Michel Espitallier - 148 propositions sur la vie et la mort - Et autres petits traités
Jean-Michel Espitallier
148 propositions sur la vie et la mort – Et autres petits traités
2011
French edition
(last copies available!)
Four treatises by Jean-Michel Espitallier.
Pierre Linguanotto - L\'aventure est un secret
Pierre Linguanotto
L'aventure est un secret
2011
French edition
18.30 9.00 €
This publication collects the statements of four migrants workers and leaders of groups of undocumented workers. These interviews focus on the reasons why they chose to live and work in France.
Julien Blaine - Cours minimal sur la poésie contemporaine
Julien Blaine
Cours minimal sur la poésie contemporaine
2010
French edition
A lesson on contemporary poetry.
Vannina Maestri - Mobiles 2
Vannina Maestri
Mobiles 2
2010
French edition
Vannina Maestri splits contemporary discourse into textual fragments, experiencing with the spatiality of the page and typography to better reflect the cacophony of the world.
Jean-François Bory - Sgowefygtom ! Sgowefygtom !
Jean-François Bory
Sgowefygtom ! Sgowefygtom !
2010
French edition
18.30 9.00 €
This experimental prose composed with large colored typographic compositions is a reflection on the act of writing: a deep metaphysical and melancholic text in which we meet Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, and Marinetti.
Michel Robic - Voyage à la page
Michel Robic
Voyage à la page
2010
French edition
20.30 10.00 €
A poetic text on travel.
Joumana Haddad - Miroirs des passantes dans le songe
Joumana Haddad
Miroirs des passantes dans le songe
2010
French edition
A collection of texts with a feminist approach, in which Joumana Haddad tells about the life of female poets who committed suicide.
Myriam Boisaubert - Les mordicantes - 26 recettes qui plairont à tout le monde
Myriam Boisaubert
Les mordicantes – 26 recettes qui plairont à tout le monde
2010
French edition
(last copies available!)
An iconoclastic recipe book combining body and mind, savagery and eroticism, pleasure of the senses and black humor. With an afterword by Rudy Ricciotti.
Benoît Ritt - Nation
Benoît Ritt
Nation
2010
French edition
13.20 6.50 €
A science-fiction story telling the rise and fall of a fantasized totalitarian global state.
Cyrille Martinez - Chansons de France
Cyrille Martinez
Chansons de France
2010
French edition
When French politics and the history of rock'n roll collide: a both irreverent and joyful text by Cyrille Martinez.
Ma Desheng - Le portrait de Ma
Ma Desheng
Le portrait de Ma
2010
French edition
Publication bringing together a series of self-portraits inspired by the expressive vocabulary of the mask. The photographs showcase a multiplicity of feelings contradicted by paradoxical captions.
Laurent Prexl - Poésure & sculptrie (+ CD)
Laurent Prexl
Poésure & sculptrie (+ CD)
2010
French edition
20.30 10.00 €
This publication is the result of a happening of sound poetry. It gathers the texts read during the lecture, as well as a recording made from the sound asperities of each of the reciters.
Michel Surya - L\'Impasse
Michel Surya
L'Impasse
2010
French edition
A pornographic text in which the author gives a desperate speech to his beloved. A nerve-racking narrative in which Michel Surya pushes the limits of excess.
Michel Surya - Contre-attaques - Perspective Michel Surya
Michel Surya
Contre-attaques #01 – Perspective Michel Surya
2010
French edition
23.40 12.00 €
The first issue of the collective review edited by philosopher and playwright Alain Jugnon gathers contributions inspired by the works of Michel Surya, and of three of his main influences, Beckett, Kafka, and Pascal.
John Ashbery - Trois poèmes
John Ashbery
Trois poèmes
2010
French edition
Collection gathering three long meditative prose poems, first published in 1972: a provocative masterpiece that helped establishing a new form in contemporary poetry.
Henri-Pierre Jeudy - Petit traité de scissiparité
Henri-Pierre Jeudy, Maria Claudia Galera
Petit traité de scissiparité
2010
French edition
15.30 7.50 €
This publication features fictions dealing with physical deformations and doubles, in order to reflect on the duality of man and the body.
Sylvain Courtoux - Vie et mort d\'un poète de merde (+ CD)
Sylvain Courtoux
Vie et mort d'un poète de merde (+ CD)
2010
French edition
The life and death of a shitty poet: a fake concept album on the trials and tribulations of a young literary mind and rock'n roll enthusiast.
Clara Elliott - Strangulation blues - Poèmes post-punk et Leçons d\'Exorcisme – 1978-1985 – Suivi de Poèmes inachevés – 1986-1987
Clara Elliott
Strangulation blues – Poèmes post-punk et Leçons d'Exorcisme – 1978-1985 – Suivi de Poèmes inachevés – 1986-1987
2010
French edition
The complete poetic works of singer and musician Clara Elliott, member of punk collective Crass.
David Sillanoli - Vandales
David Sillanoli
Vandales
2010
French edition
11.20 6.00 €
David Sillanoli's first novel features a trashy universe inspired by subcultures aesthetics and punk spirit.
Thierry Van Wyngaert - Le phare des eaux de la terre
Thierry Van Wyngaert, Jean-Paul Curnier
Le phare des eaux de la terre
2010
French edition
20.30 10.00 €
Inspired by a water tower conceived by architect Thierry Van de Wyngaert, philosopher Jean-Paul Curnier shares a text on his teenage years in South-East France.
Nathalie Quintane - Viaduc Le Corbusier
François Deslaugiers, Nathalie Quintane
Viaduc Le Corbusier
2010
French edition
20.30 10.00 €
This publication documents the viaduct Le Corbusier in Lille, France, and pays tribute to its creator, the architect François Deslaugiers. The publication features a series of short texts by Nathalie Quintane, inspired by this unique architecture.
Eduardo Kac - Natural History of the Enigma and other works
Eduardo Kac
Natural History of the Enigma and other works
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Artist and poet Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive works on internet and for his practice of bio art. This catalogue dedicated to this singular artist features contributions by an art critic (Eleonor Heartney), a leader of the contemporary American novel (Steve Tomasula) and a French sociologist and philosopher (Pierre -Henri Jeudy). An interview with Eduardo Kac by Hugues Marchal concludes the volume.
Véronique Pittolo - La Révolution dans la poche
Véronique Pittolo
La Révolution dans la poche
2009
French edition
An update of the French Revolution's spirit, and a reflection on the notions of alienation, emancipation, and citizenship.
Claude Closky - Les miens - Suivi de Biennales
Claude Closky
Les miens – Suivi de Biennales
2009
French edition
A book of sonnets taking as subjects the modern world and its main actors: the anonymous crowd of famous people of any kind.
Claude Closky - My People - Followed by Biennials
Claude Closky
My People – Followed by Biennials
2009
English edition
13.20 6.50 €
A book of sonnets taking as subjects the modern world and its main actors: the anonymous crowd of famous people of any kind.
Jacques-Henri Michot - Comme un fracas
Jacques-Henri Michot
Comme un fracas
2009
French edition
A chronicle of the world's political situation and a reflection on the language used by those who persist to defend the current political and economic systems.
Bernard Heidsieck - Biopsies (+ CD)
Bernard Heidsieck
Biopsies (+ CD)
2009
French edition
Publication gathering all the texts and recordings of the Biopsies series (1965-1969).
Bernard Heidsieck - Passe-Partout (+ 2 CD)
Bernard Heidsieck
Passe-Partout (+ 2 CD)
2009
French edition
Publication gathering all the texts and recordings of the Passe-partout series (1969-2004).
Bernard Heidsieck - Poèmes-Partitions – Précédé de Sitôt dit (+ 2 CD)
Bernard Heidsieck
Poèmes-Partitions – Précédé de Sitôt dit (+ 2 CD)
2009
French edition
This publication brings together the sound poet's first work, published in 1955, as well as the entire Poèmes-Partitions series (1955-1965). It also includes 2 CDs with all the Poèmes-Partitions recorded in their time by the author.
Simone Forti - Oh, Tongue
Simone Forti
Oh, Tongue
2009
French edition
The notebook of American dancer and choreographer Simone Forti, in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world… The publication includes an interview with Forti by Annie Suquet, and an afterword by poet and Fluxus artist Jakson Mac Low.
Ivan Messac -
Ivan Messac
2009
French edition
20.30 10.00 €
Catalogue gathering the works of Ivan Messac: bas-relief sculptures; printed textiles, and series of paintings dedicated to Adam and Eve or Maïakovski. A collection of works inspired by Pop iconography, in which we also meet Pessoa, Picabia, Hendrix, Jimmy Page…
Romain Ricciotti - Le pont du Diable
Rudy Ricciotti, Romain Ricciotti, Julien Blaine
Le pont du Diable
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
The confrontation between the radically poetic world of Julien Blaine and the radically technological world of Rudy Ricciotti's Pont du Diable (a footbridge spanning the Hérault gorges in the south of France, both a superb aesthetic gesture and a genuine technological feat).
Antoine Will - Il ne s\'est rien passé à Artolsheim
Antoine Will
Il ne s'est rien passé à Artolsheim
2009
French edition
Antoine Will investigates a crime news involving a community from Eastern France, and questions the making of accusations in the media and the court system.
Julien Blaine - Blaine au MAC - Un tri
Julien Blaine
Blaine au MAC – Un tri
2009
French edition
39.60 19.00 €
This catalogue dedicated to experimental poet Julien Blaine documents the wide variety of his work through his texts, images, installations and performances. Published on the occasion of a retrospective at the MAC Marseille, the publication is richly illustrated and documented, and features an interview with Blaine by Laurent Cauwet and Fabienne Létang.
Pierre Courtaud - De naissance et de petites coupures
Pierre Courtaud
De naissance et de petites coupures
2008
French edition
13.20 6.50 €
An account of Pierre Courtaud's nativity told with press fragments from December 26, 1951, the author's day of birth.
Julien Blaine - Les Cahiers de la 5e feuille - 1er avril 2007
Julien Blaine
Les Cahiers de la 5e feuille #06-07 – 1er avril 2007
2008
French edition
27.40 13.50 €
Penultimate volume of notebooks recounting the scientific-poetic journey of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language. Here, he reflects on linguistic works by Jean-Pierre Brisset and Jules Hermann, but most and foremost on Hans W. Bornefeld's research on Cro-Magnon glyphs.
Jean-Michel Espitallier - Army
Jean-Michel Espitallier
Army
2008
French edition
A tale of war bringing together soldiers' testimonies found on various websites—American news channels, websites on war, cellphone videos broadcasted on Youtube…
Jacques Sivan - Similijake
Jacques Sivan
Similijake
2008
French edition
27.40 13.50 €
Investigating the aesthetic notion of Gesamtkunstwerk within t>he realm of literature, Jacques Sivan presents a meta-graphic narrative in color, composed of a superimposition of visual communication items, informative writings, typographical games…
Stéphane Bérard - L\'Enfer
Stéphane Bérard
L'Enfer
2008
French edition
A modernized translation of Dante's Inferno.
Cyrille Martinez - Bibliographies - 5e République – Premiers ministres et Présidents
Cyrille Martinez
Bibliographies – 5e République – Premiers ministres et Présidents
2008
French edition
A bibliography of the Prime ministers and Presidents of the French Fifth Republic.
Stéphane Bérard - Ce que je fiche II
Stéphane Bérard
Ce que je fiche II
2008
French edition
This catalogue features 187 artistic projects, including 60 previously unseen works (new expanded edition of a 2003 catalogue).
Laurence Denimal - Projet-Gasmol
Laurence Denimal
Projet-Gasmol
2008
French edition
20.30 10.00 €
An experimental detective fiction highlighting the dangers of mass media.
Bruno Lemoine - L\'après journal de Nijinski
Bruno Lemoine
L'après journal de Nijinski
2008
French edition
15.30 7.50 €
Presented as the apocryphal diary of dancer Nijinsky, this polyphonic text gives birth to a schizophrenic world in which are investigated the relations between the author, the reader, and the subject.
La Rédaction - Valérie par Valérie
La Rédaction
Valérie par Valérie
2008
French edition
An attempt to transform the media image of Valérie, a former reality TV competitor, through a writing process.
Julien Blaine -
Julien Blaine, Bernard Heidsieck, Jean-Jacques Lebel
2008
French edition
This exhibition catalogue gathers together the visual works—collages, drawings and installations—of three major French experimental poets.
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