Contra Mundum Press

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...

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...

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

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...

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:...

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...

This is a book of poems that cycles and repeats, it is an enigmatic road. Footsteps, paths, a vacuous sky, an elusive destiny. It could be the anomie of modern life, or even a post-apocalypse. To...