Al Dante

Poetry & Literature

 
Jann-Marc Rouillan - Le tricard - Chronique du dehors d\'un interdit de séjour
2013
French edition
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Political activist Jann-Marc Rouillan chronicles his life on parole after 25 years in prison. With illustrations by Marie-Claire Cordat.
Jérôme Bertin - Pute
2013
French edition
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The trial of a dropout, convicted for the murders of her lover, a prostitute, and of her client, a deputy. A contemporary fable by transgressive writer Jérôme Bertin.
Frank Smith - Gaza, d\'ici-là
2013
French edition
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(last copies available!)
Following the lead of American objectivist poetry, Gaza, d'ici-là is a poetry-testimony based on an official document published by the UN on one of the military operations carried out in Gaza by the Israeli government.
Véronique Bergen - Edie - La danse d\'Icare
2013
French edition
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An apocryphal autobiography of Andy Warhol's muse Edie Sedgwick.
Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou - Tentaculeux & tuberculaires
2013
French edition
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A collection of texts written between 2004 and 2012.
Xavier Serrano - Black Box
2013
French edition
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20.00 10.00 €
A series of fragmentary narratives between science fiction and experimental literature, much like William Burroughs' Nova Trilogy.
Jean-Michel Espitallier - L\'Invention de la course à pied (et autres trucs)
2013
French edition
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Some thoughts on the invention of running.
Bernard Desportes - L\'Éternité
2012
French edition
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A poetic text investigating the writing of desire.
 Ilse & Pierre Garnier - Poésie spatiale - Une anthologie
2012
French edition
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Anthology dedicated to the poetic and theoretical work of Ilse & Pierre Garnier, the founders of spatialism.
Julien Blaine - Carnets de voyages - Tome VII
2012
French edition
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25.00 12.50 €
These notebooks recount the scientific-poetic journeys of poet Julien Blaine in search of the original language.
Jérôme Bertin - Le patient
2012
French edition
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A picaresque novel taking place in a psychiatric institution. Bertin's “raw” style is reminiscent of Bukowski, Céline, and Artaud.
Jacques Sivan - Des vies sur le deuil polaire
2012
French edition
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In this text, poet Jacques Sivan creates an imaginary planet populated by mortals, a mirror of our world through which he investigates the nature of language.
Faraj Bayrakdar - Ni vivant ni mort
2012
French edition
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Collection of poetry written in jail by award-winning poet and opponent to the Syrian regime Faraj Bayrakdar. With a foreword by French poet Michel Deguy.
Oscarine Bosquet - Mum is Down
2012
French edition
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This poetic text borrows from the vocabulary of the tale to express the experience of maternal suicide.
L\'Humidité - 1970-1978
2012
French edition
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An anthology of the most important experimental poetry review in 1970s France (25 issues + 1).
Jann-Marc Rouillan - Autopsie du dehors - Carnet d\'été d\'un relégué sous surveillance électronique
2012
French edition
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This notebook recounts Jann-Marc Rouillan's first months outside of jail. The political activist and former member of Action directe shares his encounters with the people of Marseille and his thoughts on today's society. With illustrations by Marie-Claire Cordat.
Mustapha Benfodil - Archéologie du chaos [amoureux]
2012
French edition
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This novel portrays the current evils of the Algerian society with provocative and transgressive humor.
Michel Robic - Guère épais - Ébauche de roman fleuve
2012
French edition
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A war story narrated by a soldier, from the Second World War to the decolonization.
Attaques
2012
French edition
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The magazine of publisher Al Dante gathers contributions of philosophical, poetic, artistic, and political interest to find new ways of thinking and creating.
Henri Deluy - Manger la mer - Lieux, soupes et bouillabaisses autour du monde
2011
French edition
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La bouillabaisse: a world tour of recipes.
Christian Prigent - Le professeur
2011
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A narrative divided in 28 chapters, each made up of one long sentence. A violent confrontation between the abstraction of the language and the subject dealing with pornography.
Édith Azam - Mercure
2011
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A text on the need of love communication, through the story of a narrator who strives to learn music on a keyboard drawn on a cardboard piece.
Jérôme Bertin - Bâtard du vide
2011
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Jérôme Bertin's autobiographical novel tells a dissolute youth in the margins of society, from addictions and violence to psychiatric stays. With still the fierce desire to write.
Sylvain Courtoux - Still Nox
2011
French edition
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An autobiographical tale in which the author tells the story of his addiction to a powerful sleeping pill.
David Sillanoli - Le jus de la nuit - Suivi de De la cervelle sur les murs & Le fléau de Pastisville
2011
French edition
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15.30 7.50 €
A story built on dream fragments inspired by subcultures (video games, Z movies, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez).
Anne-James Chaton - Vies d\'hommes illustres d\'après les écrits d\'hommes illustres (+ CD)
2011
French edition
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(last copies available!)
Collection of texts, each dedicated to the life of an illustrious man as seen by another illustrious man.
Jacques Sivan - OM_Anaksial (+ CD)
2011
French edition
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Artist Cédric Pigot created a bruitist composition to accompany the words and voice of poet Jacques Sivan. The CD recording comes with a 80-page publication printed on internet-found images. With an afterword by Bernard Heidsieck.
Jann-Marc Rouillan - Contre-attaques - Perspective Jean-Marc Rouillan
2011
French edition
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23.40 12.00 €
This second issue brings together contributions reflecting on the political commitment and literary work of Jean-Marc Rouillan, and shedding light on three of Rouillan's most important influences today: philosophers Daniel Bensaïd and Henri Lefebvre, and activist Pierre Goldman (with contributions by Véronique Bergen, Charles Pennequin, Julien Blaine, Rada Ivekovic, Pierre Linguanotto, Laurence Denimal, Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou…).
Julien Blaine - Bimot
2011
French edition
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An ambitious project of minimalist poetry centered on the relationship between two words.
Jean-Paul Curnier - Vingt et un tours de la question (radiophonies)
2011
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Collection of fictitious transcripts of radio speeches by experts on subjects such as art in life, the scarcity of water, cigarettes, or neighborhood relations. Among the 21 speeches, only one is authentic. A humoristic take on the notion of expert, and its propagandist deviation.
Jean-Michel Espitallier - 148 propositions sur la vie et la mort - Et autres petits traités
2011
French edition
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(last copies available!)
Four treatises by Jean-Michel Espitallier.
Julien Blaine - Cours minimal sur la poésie contemporaine
2010
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A lesson on contemporary poetry.
Vannina Maestri - Mobiles 2
2010
French edition
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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
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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
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20.30 10.00 €
A poetic text on travel.
Joumana Haddad - Miroirs des passantes dans le songe
2010
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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
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(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
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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
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When French politics and the history of rock'n roll collide: a both irreverent and joyful text by Cyrille Martinez.
Laurent Prexl - Poésure & sculptrie (+ CD)
2010
French edition
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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
2010
French edition
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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
2010
French edition
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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
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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
2010
French edition
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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)
2010
French edition
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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
2010
French edition
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The complete poetic works of singer and musician Clara Elliott, member of punk collective Crass.
David Sillanoli - Vandales
2010
French edition
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11.20 6.00 €
David Sillanoli's first novel features a trashy universe inspired by subcultures aesthetics and punk spirit.
Véronique Pittolo - La Révolution dans la poche
2009
French edition
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An update of the French Revolution's spirit, and a reflection on the notions of alienation, emancipation, and citizenship.
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