Literature

The 19th issue of the CNES' creation magazine has committed its contributors, and now commits its readers, to embark on the Great Space Game.

Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.

In 2020, Julien Blaine, born in 1942, inventories (and offers) what remains in an artist's studio at the end of a lifetime of creation. Le grand dépotoir brings together essays, letters and reflections on his vast poetic enterprise since its beginnings.

Marco Boubille makes speak the images of Photomaton that he picks up in the streets and collects, in a long serial poem.

Fragments of the total poetry of the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of the Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.

99 photo-poems by the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.

Fragments of the total poetry and photo-poems of the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of the Chinese artistic and cultural resistance. The limted edition gathers the two volumes (Episode 1 and 2), numbered from 1 to 20, with an original signed artwork inserted in each of them, constituting a dyptic.

An essay on the singular universe of the director, scenographer, choreographer, puppeteer and visual artist Gisèle Vienne.

A writing project around the English poet and playwright Aphra Behn (1640-1689), an avant-garde feminist and protest figure who was one of the first writers to make a living from her pen and establish herself on the London theater scene.

In her third poetic collection, Rosalie Bribes deepens the themes tackled in the two previous volumes: criticism of consumer society, illusions, pretences; search for a truth that can give meaning to human existence.

A collection of contributions from art history, history, literature, gender studies and ethnology to rethink the Enlightenment in Switzerland.

A collection of contributions from art history, history, literature, gender studies and ethnology to rethink the Enlightenment in Switzerland.

Michel Beretti, author, Jérôme Lamy, sociologist, and Élise Parré, artist, joined in a yearlong research project initiated by the Observatoire de l'Espace (the cultural laboratory of the French Space Agency) around the birth of the French space technology and its first spaceport in Hammaguir, Algeria.

The second volume of François Huglo's literary portraits: du Bellay and Borer, Zénon and Valéry, Borges and Beckett, Leibniz, Proust and Redon, Kafka, Barthes and Derrida, Baudelaire and the oenologist Émile Peynaud, Bory and Novalis...

English translation of Artaud le Mômo, edited in the spatial format Artaud intended, for the first time since its original edition in 1947. Includes eight original drawings by the French poet.

Oracular Transmissions weaves together three of the most recent collaborative projects Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby have completed through processes of exchange and translation: Back, Back Again to Paris (2013), The Alhambra (2016), and Transmissions (2017).

Jean-François Bory's travel diary to Japan.

This monographic study catalogs, explores, and interprets the manifold manifestations of music in Thomas Pynchon's novels.

A vibrant stage adaptation of Louis Calaferte's book by Virginie Despentes accompanied by the rock band Zëro.

52 short poems, written in a nervous prose during periods of trance. A response to the “disease of globalization.”

A free reflection on the influence of Bertolt Brecht in the work of Nina Hagen, this hybrid text approaches two great popular figures of German culture through an unusual prism, through the margins, and paints a portrait of Nina Hagen as we have never seen her before.

A portrait of Claude Ollier (1922-2014), writer of the Nouveau Roman, where memories, reflections, hypotheses and descriptions are intertwined, with a notebook of photographs composed by Camille Rosset.

Divagations about René Ghil, Jean-François Bory, Lucien Suel: three authors who invented and practised the most diverse forms of “experimental poetry” and who have profoundly transformed the very idea of “poetry”.

First French translation of Shulamith Firestone's first novel.

The colony as a major philosophical concept in contemporary political thought—a basis for reflection on decolonization (expanded reprint of the book published in 2008).

Julien Blaine's performance manifesto.

Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

Through the detailed analysis of Antonin Artaud's psychiatric history, Lettrist master Isidore Isou delivers a real indictment in this singular text which is both an investigation and a pamphlet.

A picaresque tale of Clara Schulmann's often collective experiences.

Second volume of a publication dedicated to the artist's novel, this metafiction follows a detective investigating the conditions of production of a novel within an artistic framework.

The first of a two-volume publication dedicated to the artist's novel, this theoretical essay aims to elucidate the pressing questions posed by the emergence of this new artistic medium with a number of key case studies and interviews.

The two volumes of the publication dedicated to the artist's novel (two-books set special offer).

Presented as a work-in-progress, this text on American artist Rindon Johnson's video practice offers a reflection on the widening creative possibilities in the multimodal digital landscape, while discussing the political and personal aspirations of a new generation of artists and critics.

Six short stories by Maria Kakogianni, between literary fiction and philosophy.

A collection of essays on audio archives of poetry.

Retrospective monograph.

The proceedings of a symposium dedicated to the work of French writer, playwright and poet Olivier Cadiot.

A poetic document found during a political rally in 2019 (against prisons), without author's name nor any indication of origin. Only mention at the bottom of the last page: copying. to be freely distributed.

A story, between myth and reality, of Caravaggio, by parodic artist Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.

Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

First French translation of Clemente Padìn's first poems.

A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins (limited edition, signed, including an original and unique artwork).

A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins.

The encounter of the rock band Melmac with the poet Anne-Claire Hello.

This autobiographical novel describes the author's esoteric quest and involvement with a shaman in the hope of saving his mother, diagnosed with terminal cancer.

The new book from French photographer Estelle Hanania gathers over ten years of collaboration and archives revolving around the artistic universe of Gisèle Vienne.

A collection of thoughts, fragments and poems set in a prose text, between the newspaper, written from day to day, the essay and the autobiography.

Diaphanes #8/9 looks into curious loops of reproduced present, the integral of circular I-effects, the other side of the social Möbius strip. Is the self nothing but an echo? An effect without cause? The human being a message, an autoreply in the jargon of social-memes? Who or what massages the backchannel so astoundingly self-similarly, like an invisible hand?