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

Series:

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

2010

French edition

A lesson on contemporary poetry.

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 !

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

2010

French edition

~~20.30~~ 10.00 €

A poetic text on travel.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

2009

French edition

Publication gathering all the texts and recordings of the Biopsies series (1965-1969).

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)

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

2008

French edition

A bibliography of the Prime ministers and Presidents of the French Fifth Republic.

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

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

2008

French edition

An attempt to transform the media image of Valérie, a former reality TV competitor, through a writing process.

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.