Literature

A tiny collection of three short stories by Chinese author Can Xue that immerse readers in a world where reality and absurdity collide.

The unpublished story, reproduced in facsimile, of the journey to Paris of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923-2014), Ivorian poet and artist, "prophet", creator and inventor of the Bété alphabet, who writes a "report" of his encounter with the Western world on his return from the opening of the mythical exhibition "Magiciens de la Terre".

Thulani Davis' collection of poetry about music.

Entonnoir de Nous: a machine misunderstands two humans over several years, and unwittingly writes a book of poetry.

Book / sonic sculpture.

Drawings and texts by Olivier Bringer (series of 30 drawings and 12 unpublished texts printed on Munken paper).

Denis Lavant reads/says the poem Vents by Saint-John Perse (1946), accompanied by Quentin Rollet (saxophones) and Patrick Müller (electrosonic). With the participation of Romain Perrot (guitar).

The first ever anthology of feminist poetry from Russia.

This volume focuses on all of Emmanuel Hocquard's activities, in order to highlight his importance, and to situate him in a history of contemporary poetry in which he was one of the main protagonists.

This book gathers the texts (rare or unpublished) conceived as scores of Michèle Métail's oral publications since 1973.

This book gathers the texts (rare or unpublished) conceived as scores of Michèle Métail's oral publications since 1973. This limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, contains a signed collage.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia.

A collection of reflections and literary and artistic contributions inspired by the themes at the heart of American writer Dodie Bellamy's work, and driven by the central question “What are we learning from artists today?”

The “chronicle of a sideration” written during the lockdown between March and June 2020, accompanied by a textual contribution by Julien Coupat et alii.

Unlike previous Gerhard Rühm editions on Tochnit Aleph which portrayed his phonetic poetry and longform radio-plays, the pieces on this edition are more conceptual, actionistic and (mostly) sound-based works recorded between 1962 and 1987.

Charles Pennequin is an unconventional poet who tells us here the sidereal aggression of a Martian who has not yet cut the cord. On the CD contained in the book, he interprets his text three times: twice in the company of the guitarist Jean-François Pauvros, and another time alone, but with a megaphone.

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.

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”.

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

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.

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.