Fous littéraires

Special deluxe edition with an original photogravure by Cerith Wyn Evans.

Philosopher Éric Alliez rethinks Marcel Duchamp's legacy in relation to contemporary art and the image, psychoanalysis and gender.

A study on the relationship between literature and madness from the 18th century until now.

Science and Pataphysics, volume II: the birth of linguistics, as an academic field, in France, and the ideological and political issues that contribute to this implementation.

Science and Pataphysics, volume I: the history of the origin myths—how science is torn from what is now defined as pseudo-science.

Herminie Hanin (a figure of art brut, “fou littéraire” with a tendency to paranoia, inventor of the plane trap) inaugurates the series “Les Hétéroclites” (“Heterogeneous”), created by Marc Décimo to explore the relations between literature, art, insanity and creation.

An essay on the reception of Jean-Pierre-Brisset's work among his contemporaries and successors, its relationship with futurism, pataphysics, surrealism, dada, etc., its sources and its offspring in the fields of literature, linguistics, psychoanalysis, science, philosophy and art.

Miss Marie le Masson Le Golft (1749-1826) is known as the lady who noted Nature.

An essay on Paul Tisseyre Ananké, the military officer in saharian French colonies and writer, which proposes a linguistic and biographic approach, accompanying the reedition of Ananké's book, denouncing the horrors of the French colonisation in Africa.

The funny though serious inventions of the thinker, poet, prophet and annagrammarian.

A monument for both linquists and writers.

A complete panorama of the astonishing personality of the unknown writer, grammarian, cosmologist and inventor.

An introductory examination of asylum art before the theorization of art brut, followed by a new critical edition of French alienist Marcel Réja's study on the “madmen's art”.