Literature

 
 
Peter Greenaway - Papers
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - Figures
The first book to unveil the main pictorial works (drawings, paintings and collages) of the British film director, the source of his entire cinematic oeuvre (new edition).
Zoë Lund - Poems
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. This is the first publication dedicated to her work.
Margaret de Asbaje - Court traité-poème de métaphysique moniste
2023
French edition
Mix
A mysterious hybrid manuscript ("rediscovered", edited and presented by Alessandro De Francesco) whose prose, oscillating between poetry, philosophy and conceptual art, ingenuously explores the great unresolved questions of humanity and nature.
Yoann Sarrat - Mon livre
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
A visceral questioning of what a book can or cannot be, and of the positions of author and reader.
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Eileen Myles, motherhood and an artistic career, Kelly Reichardt, Pierre Creton, Julien Gosselin's sermon on the fall of Vienna, squatting on algorithmic video surveillance in Rotterdam...
Anna Serra - Danse-Combat
2023
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
Anna Serra's new book of poems, born of a struggle on all levels: the body and its illness, the body and its environment, the body in the midst of other struggling bodies, and the body pushing back its own confinement.
Jean-Philippe Delhomme - Studio Poems
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
A collection of poems by French writer, painter and illustrator Jean-philippe Delhomme, accompanied by previously unpublished ink drawings.
Saidiya Hartman - À perte de mère - Sur les routes atlantiques de l\'esclavage
2023
French edition
Brook
Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.
Marc Graciano - Ronce
2023
French edition
Naima
An artistic and literary project based on the emblematic and ambiguous plant figure of the bramble.
Pierre Escot - Carmin Profond
2023
French edition
Vroum - Editions
The transposition of an exhibition into a book format, spatialising concrete poetry on the page (artist's book).
Jairus Banaji - Wanting Something Completely Different - 111 Vignettes of Left-Wing Figures, Themes, Films, and Writers
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
A collection (montage) of biographies and themes written by Jairus Banaji.
Kathy Acker - Love, Emily (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Slow Moves
The restored and remastered vinyl reissue of a sound performance by American writer Kathy Acker and French noise/experimental band Nox, published in 1987, with a poster and a previously unpublished set of documents, letters, texts and photos.
Herman Parret - La délicatesse des sens
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – esthétique:critique
A collection of three new aesthetic essays, between the visual arts and literature, by Belgian philosopher and semiotician Herman Parret: a reflection on the "delicacy" in the various fields of sensoriality (the visible, the sound, the taste and the tactile)—a most suggestive reading for the construction or the development of a sensitive semiotics.
Vincent Broqua - La langue du garçon
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic investigation on desire, love and masculinity in the form of a constellation of texts, drawings and photographs.
Claude Favre - Alep – Quinze heures du matin
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poem built like a long love song to the wounded Aleppo, to all the Aleppo of the world.
Jacques-Henri Michot - Au jour dit - Le 24 avril en France (1935-2022)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A series of samples taken every April 24, for eighty-seven years, from the most diverse sources (press articles, television broadcasts, book and film releases, speeches...): a mass of information that makes, from the smallest to the most imperious, the history of a country.
Jean-Luc Parant - Soleil explosion
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The sequel, posthumous and almost completed, of the poem-fleuve initiated in 2020 by Jean-Luc Parant, which questions our being in the world with a freedom both new and timeless.
Peter Greenaway - Four Storms & Two Babies - A Love Story
2023
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
A story of love, lust and parenthood, born beneath a series of thunderstorms (the script by the acclaimed Welsh film director and screenwriter Peter Greenaway).
Gilles Furtwängler - Did you take the dog out? (2 vinyl LP)
2023
DUUU
A split on 4 sides gathering 10 musicians, poets and poetesses around texts written and read by Gilles Furtwängler.
Bruno Serralongue - Voilà ce que mes yeux voient
2023
French edition
HEAD (Geneva University of Art and Design)
A writing workshop led by the writer François Bon and the artist photographer Bruno Serralongue at HEAD - Geneva from February 20 to 25, 2022.
Igor Terentiev - Tenderness Record - The Life of Ilya Zdanevich
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Igor Terentiev's biography of Ilya Zdanevich published in 1919 in Tbilisi.
Carmelo Bene - L\'esthétique du déplaisir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
ASMR's low masses, the Russian punk scene's exile in Belgrade, Harry Gruyaert, insurrection and literature in Turin's prisons, Susanne Kennedy, Nicolás Pereda, a sociological analysis of police violence by Paul Rocher...
Charlotte Graham - Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
2023
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
A sci-fi imagining of life in America's penultimate chapter: Montreal-born, NY-based writer Charlotte Graham's debut novel, a work of experimental fiction, follows a sweeping group of characters in America's near future as they live and die under the threat of a new kind of deadly bomb called the Peacemaker.
The Rainbow Book
2023
English edition
Nero
currently out of stock
The reprint of a cult book of post-1968 psychedelic culture:, an encyclopedia of the cultural and artistic manifestations of the rainbow first published in 1975 in Berkeley, California, on the occasion of The Rainbow Show exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Marine Forestier - Les Lichennes
2023
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A novel of anticipation anchored in queer ecologies, a frenetic odyssey interwoven with songs and short poems, mixing the genres of feminist science fiction, young adult literature, space-opera and marvelous fable.
Diaphanes - Matrices porteuses
2023
texts in English and French
Diaphanes
Diaphanes - Diaphanes (magazine)
Diaphanes #11 explores practices of human and non-human substitution, plays with the myths and visions of motherhood and procreation, gathers artistic and theoretical positions on reproduction and communication, gender and genus, addressing and conception.
Johana Blanc - Les déserteuses
2023
French edition
Clinamen
currently out of stock
The first novel by Swiss artist Johana Blanc.
Marvin M\'toumo - Concours de larmes
2023
French edition
Clinamen
currently out of stock
At the intersection between theatre, fashion design and poetry, Concours de larmes is a powerful text, both prophetic and unsettling. Based on the play of the same name presented at the TU - Théâtre de l'Usine in Geneva in 2022, it is presented in the form of set of divinatory cards, each character referring to a specific part of the text.
Rim Battal - Pommes Girl / أحتفل بالحياة التي تحتفل بي
2023
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
The story of a meeting between a woman and a man linked by music for one night, in a nuptial dance of bodies and words doomed to failure: an ode to desire by the Franco-Moroccan poetess.
Virginie Despentes - نظرية كينغ كونغ
2023
Arabic edition
Kulte Editions
First Arabic translation of Virginie Despentes' cult book King Kong Theory.
Antonin Artaud - A Sinister Assassin - Last Writings, Ivry-sur-Seine, September 1947–March 1948
2023
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Edited, translated and with an introduction by Stephen Barber, A Sinister Assassin illuminates Artaud's last, most intensive and terminal work for the first time.
Louis Dorsène - Quatre catastrophes
2023
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A collection of poetic, political and ecological stories to be told aloud, in which the natural elements (the melting ice, the volcanic eruption, the hole in the clouds, or the flood) are the heroes, approaching ecology through its sensitive manifestations.
Démosthène Agrafiotis - Prolégomènes à une histoire de la performance en Grèce
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A comprehensive overview of performance and action art in Greece, from its origins to the most contemporary practices.
Liliane Giraudon - Une femme morte n\'écrit pas
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.
Adriano Spatola - Vers une poésie totale
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Undoubtedly one of the most important texts on the out of book poetry, both a documentary sum and a manifesto to underline the major role that the poetry and the poets have occupied and occupy in the whole of the transformations that have upset the the contemporary art field, considered by the amateurs and the researchers like a true bible.
Daring Shifts
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
currently out of stock
A hybrid collection of five illustrated short stories of speculative fiction from five countries and four continents
Rita Elhajj - Under water and up in the air
2023
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Clinamen
A symbolic and political science fiction short story written in four languages.
Jacques Jouet - Le théâtre simple
2023
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A theater work by Jacques Jouet with "performative" rules for the actors in each play.
Jacques Donguy - Essai sur la Poésie numérique - Ou vers un élargissement du langage
2023
French edition / excerpts translated into English
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
An international essay (France, USA, Brazil, etc.) on digital poetry, from the first attempts to generate text on the computer to the most contemporary developments and the problems posed by artificial intelligence.
Jérôme Duwa - 591
2023
French edition
591
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Jérôme Duwa proposes sixteen ways to embark in the company of Jean-François Bory's books.
José Vicente Anaya - Pèlerin
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The second part of José Vicente Anaya's poetic trilogy, deeply rooted in the infra-realist movement founded in Mexico City in the 1970s, combining verse and prose, is marked by a formal experimentation anchored in the poet's life and his wanderings from the north to the south of Mexico.
José Vicente Anaya - Paria
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
José Vicente Anaya closes his poetic trilogy with a rereading of Mexican political history through the memories of his own wanderings.
Angélica Freitas - Rilke Shake
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Rilke Shake—a humorous variation on the milkshake—summons part of the author's library (Mallarmé, Ezra Pond, Gertrude Stein, etc.) in poetic sketches that are in turn comical, burlesque, and absurd. At once trivial and erudite, this unbridled poetry explodes with images of parties—and the mornings after—, flashes of the street, and reminders of Brazil.
Julien Ladegaillerie - Effracte
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic text fragmented into three parts each generating its own handicap in expressing the economy as alienation from life.
Patrícia Lavelle - Bye bye Babel
2023
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The collection of poems by the Brazilian writer, rewritten in French, in a process that includes translation and re-creation, combines with delicacy, ingenuity and great coherence a research on the relationship between language and Eros, personal reflections, extensive cultural references and philosophical questionings.
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Zone to Defend in Germany, the opera in Odessa, investigation on the lost trilogy of Abdellatif Kechiche, the end of dancers' careers, the artists in the ready-to-wear, interviews with Mariana Enríquez, Tiphaine Raffier, Bertrand Bonello, Fatima Ouassak, Núria Güell...
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