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It is no exaggeration to suggest that Robert Kelly may well be America's most prolific poet, and certainly one of the most singular and ceaselessly innovative poets the country produced in the 2nd...

Aline And Valcour, Vol. 1: Or, The Philosophical NovelAuthor: Marquis De SadePublisher: Contra Mundum PressPublication Date: Dec 02, 2019Number of Pages: 210 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Set against the impending riptide of the French Revolution and composed while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille, Aline and Valcour embodies the multiple themes that would become the hallmark of his...

With a starting point on July 14, 2021, when the Centre national de litt?rature hosted Pierre Joris' 75th birthday celebration, Always the Many, Never the One builds upon the initial interview by...

Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel's Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra Mundum Press is...

G?bor Schein is the highly acclaimed author of over nine volumes of poetry and five novels, as well as the recipient of many prizes, including the Attila J?zsef Prize, the Artisjus Prize, and the...

Chasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of the most powerful figures in...

A series of dialogues between the major Arab-language poet Adonis and poet and translator Pierre Joris, including reflections on monotheism, poetics, and the possible role of the spiritual in...

A radical attack on the integrative, unitary capitalism that absorbs, assimilates, and regurgitates everything in its production of consensual reality.Author: Rainer J HanshePublisher: Contra Mundum...

Born in 1925 in Transylvania into a Hungarian family, Lorand Gaspar grew up speaking Hungarian, Romanian, German, and also French, which would become the language in which he wrote. Endowed with many...

Being on the road - the ultimate litany ? "I am simply a traveling explorer conducting research, without a commission, specialty, or expertise." In this semi-fictional account, Blixa Bargeld recounts...

High SolitudeAuthor: Léon-Paul FarguePublisher: Contra Mundum PressPublication Date: Sep 30, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 194062570XISBN-13: 9781940625706

The Winter 2023 issue of Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics features a new music column, Off Minor, with an essay by Ran Blake on legendary composer and pianist Thelonious Monk. Other material...

In his proto-memoir Innocent, world-renowned actor GErard Depardieu reflects on his life as if from afar, like a bird surveying a wide horizon, presenting fervent observations on friendship, cinema,...

Interglacial Narrows gathers a range of Pierre Joris' poems written between 2015 and 2021, including an extended version of the Book of U / Le livre des cormorans by Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte,...

On 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls of Mexico City to the...

A book that unites all books: adventure book, historical panorama, satirical tale, philosophical summa, polemical mockery, geographical treatise, political analysis.Author: Pierre Senges, Antonio de...

Narcissus, or The Lover of Himself is a play of staggering mediocrity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, better known as a social thinker than as a playwright, claims to have written it as a young man of...

The talk should be interrupted every now and then in my opinion. Disrupt, dismember, disperse. Right, says the First Voice. To not to lose ourselves too much in our voice, our exuberance, our...

Our Street, S?ndor Tar's fifth book, is comprised of thirty-one stories centered on the inhabitants of Crooked Street, the tail end of a small village in southern Hungary bounded at one end by a...

Considered an eerie attack on realism, when first published in 1934, Mikl?s Szentkuthy's debut novel Prae so astonished Hungarian critics that many deemed it monstrous, derogatorily referred to...

Stories, Tales, & FablesAuthor: Marquis De SadePublisher: Contra Mundum PressPublication Date: Mar 31, 2025Number of Pages: 656 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1940625726ISBN-13:...

It is sometimes proclaimed that crises generate creative powers. An idea to consider, beyond the banal advertising or entrepreneurial statements about the fruitful nature of crises (political,...

The DarkroomAuthor: Marguerite Duras, Alta IflandPublisher: Contra Mundum PressPublication Date: April 04, 2021Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1940625440ISBN-13:...

Written between 1963 and 1967, The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini's imitation of the early cantos of the Inferno, offers a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s. It is...

While Emilio Villa (1914-2003) was referred to as Zeus because of his greatness and Rabelais because of his mental voracity, for decades his work remained in oblivion, only recently surfacing to...

The Transformation Book, which belongs to Pessoa's pre-heteronymic period, contains a series of fragments written in English, Portuguese, and French, none of which were ever published during Pessoa's...

Robert Musil's Thought Flights vividly evokes the secrets, challenges, and mundanities of interwar life in cosmopolitan Vienna and Berlin. The texts presented here have been selected by translator...

Unique in Hungarian literature, at the time of its first appearance in 1935, Towards the One & Only Metaphor was greeted with plaudits by such leading Hungarian critics as L?szl? N?meth, Andr?s...

In 1911, following his 1906 debut, The Confusions of Young T?less, Robert Musil published the two experimental stories that make up Unions. "The Completion of Love" and "The Temptation of Quiet...