Literature

 
 
Meenakshi Chakraverti - Night Heron
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
Meenakshi Chakraverti's first novel.
Jacques Donguy - De Jeff Golyscheff à Stelarc - De l\'avant-garde à la post-humanité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
forthcoming
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.
Jacques Donguy - Catalogue raisonné de l\'œuvre de Jean-François Bory
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Uno Kuniichi - Artaud pensée et corps
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
forthcoming
Julien Blaine - Joëlle Léandre versus Julien Blaine
2024
French edition
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
forthcoming
A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.
Michele Lombardelli - Piacenza – Los Angeles
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
A literary bridge between two very different cities through the art and poetry publications edited by Michele Lombardelli between 1991 and 2008.
Pierre Guyotat - La parole visible
2024
French edition
Diaphanes
forthcoming
Architect Patrick Bouchain's reading of the work and his friendship with Pierre Guyotat, as well as an analysis by Bouchain and numerous members of Guyotat's creative community of the power of the alliance between vision and word, image and poem, in the author's work.
Jean-François Bory - FREEING (Our Bodies) - Jean-François Bory, Kathy Acker ou l\'invention de « textemondes »
2024
French edition
FREEING (Our Bodies)
An essay by Yoann Sarrat on two works by Jean-François Bory and Kathy Acker.
Franco Berardi - Respirer - Chaos et poésie
2024
French edition
CAPC
The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy.
Joseph Mitchell - Le Merveilleux saloon de McSorley - Récits New-yorkais
2024
French edition
Diaphanes - Literature
Collection of portraits published between 1938 and 1955 in the New Yorker by one of the pioneer of New Journalism: a literary painting of a New York that no longer exists.
Philip K. Dick - How To Build A Universe That Doesn\'t Fall Apart Two Days Later
2024
English edition
ISOLARII
In this prophetic 1978 essay, legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick explores the nature of reality, the power of media, and the authenticity of human experience, offering startling insights that resonate eerily with our modern world.
Peter Greenaway - The Historians - Book 4 – Toys
2024
English edition
Dis Voir
The new volume of an experimental series on historiography, about toys.
Dusk - Anthology – Contemporary Lebanese Women Poets
2024
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kaph Books
A lyrical portrait of Lebanon through the poetry of 60 native women authors.
L\'Art dans la vie - Le constructivisme soviétique dans les textes
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.
Magma - New Surrealist Enquiries
2024
French edition
Magma
To mark the centenary of Surrealism, this ephemeral journal, featuring 150 contemporary voices from literature, art, cinema, poetry, theater, and civil society, brings together over 200 unpublished contributions, responding to the surrealist enquiries.
Mouvement
2024
French edition
Mouvement
Aboard the lifeboat Ocean Viking; Jérôme Ferrari; Quebec poetry; Florentina Holzinger; Corsican cinema; investigation in the Kodak factories...
Jean-Michel Wicker - Logorrhea
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
The fruit of a long-term project, this artist's book focuses on the written word and language in Jean-Michel Wicker's work.
Léon Bloy - Revenantes (book + CD)
2024
French edition
Lenka lente
Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.
Rene Ricard - Love Poems
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
Three long poems by American writer, artist and actor Rene Ricard (1946-2014), an icon of the New York underground in the 1970s, accompanied by a series of drawings by American painter Robert Hawkins.
Jill Johnston - JJ - Tartine-moi et autres textes
2024
French edition
Brook
JJ brings together articles by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston (1929-2010), translated into French for the first time, as well as texts, poems and drawings by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel and Rosanna Puyol.
Cecilia Pavón - Bonbons à l\'anis
2024
French edition
Brook
The first collection of texts published in French by the Argentinian artist and poet.
Alexandre Castant - Chaos
2024
French edition
Naima
A collection of poems and fictions which, based on literary experiences from 1985-1989, reflects aesthetic concerns that foreshadow Alexandre Castant's future literary and artistic research.
ZinZac
2024
French edition
ZinZac
Naima
The first issue of the artistic and literary magazine created by Christophe Le Gac and Rozenn Le Roux offers 240 pages of novels, poetry, essays, philosophy, thoughts and other experiences.
 Iliazd - Berlin Khaltura
2024
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The sixth volume of the bie bao series presents the first English translation of Ilya Zdanevich's writings on Berlin.
Larissa Reisner - The Decembrists
2024
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The first English translation of Larissa Reisner (1895-1926)'s writings on the Decembrist uprising.
Jehanne Denogent - Palimpsestes africains - Primitivisme littéraire et avant-gardes (Paris, 1901-1924)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Œuvres en sociétés
The notion of primitivism rethought to highlight the role of the African referent in the development of the artistic and literary avant-garde in Europe.
Marc Hurtado - De cœur à cœur
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).
Pauline Picot - Permettez-moi de palpiter
2024
French edition
Vroum - Editions
50 poems by Pauline Picot, autobiographical fragments that also reflect the daily lives of those around her.
Celebrity Cafe
2024
French edition
Celebrity Cafe
Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia: the sixth issue of Jacques Donguy, Sarah Cassenti and Jean-François Bory's avant-garde artistic and literary journal, with Frédéric Acquaviva, Antonin Artaud, Philippe Boisnard, Bernard Bousquet, Augusto De Campos, Hélène Defilippi, Cassandra Felgueiras, Pascal Le Gallois, Raoul Hausmann, Eduardo Kac, Chris Korda, Thomas Laroppe, Alvin Lucier, Made In Eric, Richard Meier, Simone Osthoff, Nam June Paik, Céline Paul, Diamantino Quintas, Biño Sauitzvy, Raoul Vaneigem.
Towards the Realm of Materiality - Designing Philip K. Dick\'s Non-Existing Technologies
2024
English edition
Nero
A multidisciplinary exploration of the technological devices, the machines, and the objects conceived by the brilliant mind of Philip K. Dick.
Hélène Cixous - Itinéraires Fantômes (box set)
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
X Artists' Books
Itinéraires Fantômes is an oracle deck created by Alexandra Grant with Hélène Cixous in celebration of H. Cixous' work.
Unica Zürn - Katrin - The Tale of a Young Writer
2024
English edition
Crackers
A partly autobiographical novel that the German surrealist artist and author Unica Zürn (1916-1970) wrote for her ten-year-old daughter in 1953, although it would never be published in her lifetime. This is the first translation of the tale from German into English.
Mouvement
2024
French edition
Mouvement
The far right and culture in Italy; everyday dystopia in Palestine; extraterrestrials and conspiracy; interview with Yolande Zauberman; intimacy coordinators against predatory cinema; meeting with Camila Sosa Villada...
Eva Forest - A Strange Adventure
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Montana
Multivocal and anonymous, A Strange Adventure is oral-history-as-theater—the theater of memory, trauma, and torture.
Julien Blaine - Confidences
2024
French edition
various
Julien Blaine's rebellious confidences, between the political and the poetic.
Mudun - Short stories from the Arab world
2024
texts in English and Arabic
Kaph Books
Published on the occasion of Mudun Short Story Prize, an international competition that pays tribute to cities around the Arab world which was launched by the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah (UAE), Mudun: Stories from Arab Cities brings together the 19 stories—10 in Arabic and nine in English—that were shortlisted for the prize, including the winning submissions.
Kiran Subbaiah - Melancholia in the Age of Mechanization
2024
English edition
Reliable Copy
Indian artist Kiran Subbaiah reevaluates the history of Modernism, through its ideals of growth and progress, as one steeped in contradictions around industrialisation and its effects on society.
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.
Laurent Marissal - Portrait d\'un terroriste en amateur d\'art
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Conversation on art, real and imaginary, in 13 tableaux between ex-Action directe member Jann-Marc Rouillan and painter Laurent Marissal.
Amandine André - Impossessions primitives / L\'Anti-Terre
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
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
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Cyrille Bret - Cynanthropie
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
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
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Benjamin Fouché - Merveilles du monde
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Inducing daydreams, walking under hypnosis, thwarting curfews.
Charles Pennequin - Dedans
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
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.
Simone Forti - New Book
2024
English edition
Nero
A new poem composed by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti.
Steve Cannon - Groove, Bang and Jive Around
2024
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
New edition of Steve Cannon's riotous 1969/71 erotic novel Groove, Bang and Jive Around, "an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York's black cognoscenti have transmogrified the work into urban myth," with a foreword from Darius James and an afterword by poet Tracie Morris.
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