Literature

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 collection directed by Laurent Cauwet.

See also the Al Dante catalogue in distribution, for all titles released before 2018.
 
Series directed by Laurent Cauwet.
Julien Blaine - Le grand dépotoir
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
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.
Julien Blaine - 2019
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Marco Boubille - Ordre aléatoire des images
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Marco Boubille makes speak the images of Photomaton that he picks up in the streets and collects, in a long serial poem.
Dominique Cerf - Il y a quelqu\'un là-dedans
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Drawing book, with an introductory text by Liliane Giraudon and a feminist manifesto by the artist.
Ma Desheng - Handicapé ; Bien ?!?!?! - Épisode 1
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Fragments of the total poetry of the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of the Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.
Ma Desheng - Handicapé ; Bien ?!?!?! - Épisode 2
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
99 photo-poems by the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.
Ma Desheng - Handicapé ; Bien ?!?!?! - Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
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.
Sarah Kéryna - Le reste c\'est la suite
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Le singe de Kafka & autres propos sur la colonie
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Al Dante
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 - Introdⓐction à la performance
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Julien Blaine's performance manifesto.
Julien Blaine - Introdⓐction à la performance - Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Isidore Isou - Antonin Artaud torturé par les psychiatres
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
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.
Poésiue
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
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.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - Récits de la vie de Michelangelo Merisi, dit « Le Caravage »
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A story, between myth and reality, of Caravaggio, by parodic artist Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - Récits de la vie de Michelangelo Merisi, dit « Le Caravage » - Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Clemente Padín - Horizons ouverts & autres poèmes
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
First French translation of Clemente Padìn's first poems.
Jean-Luc Parant - Soleil absent - Luxury Edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
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).
Jean-Luc Parant - Soleil absent
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
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.
Andréa-Fatima Touam - Encyclopédie de la domination masculine
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
An investigation into the female presence in the places of art and thought, where discourses on emancipation are fabricated.
Sylvain Courtoux - L\'Avant-garde, Tête brûlée, Pavillon noir - Post-poème épique (+ CD)
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A total and exploded socio-politico-poetic inquiry into the poetic milieu, based on a textual-visual-sound device.
Carmen Diez Salvatierra - 28 formes découpées
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
In 28 short poetic devices, the author marks a space of thought where the disenchanted memory strengthens the present word. Because “forgetfulness is also a violence”.
Julien Ladegaillerie - Lacrymogenèse
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Daniel Pozner - Défense, illustration, impatience et épluchures de la langue française
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Jacques Sivan - Notre mission
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The testamentary work of Jacques Sivan: a graphic poem on the body and its reincarnation through the language.
Louis Roquin - Journaux de sons
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
The “Sounds Journals” by the composer and visual artist Louis Roquin, made during travels in Asia over twenty years (1998-2016), constitute a kaleidoscopic homage to writing, image, text and sound.
Louis Roquin - Journaux de sons - Limited edition
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
The “Sounds Journals” by the composer and visual artist Louis Roquin, made during travels in Asia over twenty years (1998-2016), constitute a kaleidoscopic homage to writing, image, text and sound. This limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, contains an unique signed collage.
Myr Muratet - Manuel d\'écologie urbaine
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.
Julien Blaine - Le livre
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
An original fable at war against the founding books of monotheisms (unpublished text of 1963).
Angéline Neveu - Enragée de Nanterre - ou Le mensonge intime
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Angéline Neveu, a figure of May '68 then of the French poetic underground, close to the Situationists, tells herself and offers a testimony on the years 1960-70.
Clemente Padín - De la représentation à l\'action
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The reissue, in a new translation, of one of the most important essays of Latin American poetry from the historical avant-gardes.
Attaques
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A journal of critical and political poetry.
Michèle Métail - Portraits-robots
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory.
Michèle Métail - Portraits-robots - Luxury Edition
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory, with an original and unique artwork.
Angéline Neveu - Synthèse / désir
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Reissue of the main publications by Angéline Neveu (1946-2011), a political figure of the poetic underground scene in France.
Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou - Nos secrets sont poétiques
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This publication brings together two new texts by Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou, with an audio link granting access to a recorded version of the publication, accompanied by a composition by sound artist motif_r.
Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou - Nos secrets sont poétiques - Luxury Edition (+ CD)
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This publication brings together two new texts by Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou. The limited edition includes an original and unique artwork, as well as a CD with a sound declension of the poem, recorded by the author and accompanied by a composition of the sound artist motif_r.
Christian Prigent - Poésie sur place (+ CD)
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Collection of transcripts of performance poetry by Christian Prigent. This edition comes with a CD including the recordings of these performances, featuring the author and actress Vanda Benes.
José Vicente Anaya - Híkuri - Pour un art d\'une vitalité sans limite
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A seminal text of Contemporary Mexican poetry, inspired by the Tarahumara and peyote rituals. Included in appendix is the first manifesto of infra-realism, written by Anaya in 1975.
591
2019
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.
Michèle Métail - La poésie en trois dimensions
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A collective exploration of 45 years of protean poetic activities, between printed text, exposed text and proffered text, with some thirty contributions by academics and poets, with numerous illustrations.
Guillaume Apollinaire - Poèmes en guerre - 31 juillet 1914 - 9 novembre 1918
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
All poems written by Apollinaire during World War I, gathered for the first time.
François Bizet - Dans le mirador
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poetic story in prose at the crossroads of genres, difficult to locate as it only describes the non-place in which it is built.
Claude Favre - Crever les toits, etc. - suivi de Déplacements, septembre 2016
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Claude Favre delivers a poetry made of readings and borrowings, a present poetry, attentive to the movements of men and to those who constrain them.
Frédéric Valabrègue - George Brecht, histoire d\'un effacement
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Al Dante
An essay by Frédéric Valabrègue on the American avant-garde artist, one of the main actors of the Fluxus movement.
Michèle Métail - Le cours du Danube - en 2888 kilomètres/vers… l\'infini
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A long and vertiginous poem, virtually infinite, by Michèle Métail, built on the principle of concatenation and inspired by the editing techniques of electroacoustic music.
Michèle Métail - Le cours du Danube - en 2888 kilomètres/vers… l\'infini – Luxury Edition
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A long and vertiginous poem, virtually infinite, by Michèle Métail, built on the principle of concatenation and inspired by the editing techniques of electroacoustic music, with an original and unique artwork.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin.
Frédéric Acquaviva - The 120 Days of Musica - Luxury Edition (+ CD)
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Al Dante
120 true and oxymoronesque scores-instructions composed by Frédéric Acquaviva between 2015 and 2017 in Berlin. Luxury limited edition, signed, including an original artwork and the sound artwork “Oxymoron Music” on CD.
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