Vampyroteuthis infernalis
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L'édition inédite et définitive (établie à partir des tapuscrits originaux en français) du traité fabuleux du philosophe tchéco-brésilien Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), une fiction philosophique et poétique qui, par des chemins détournés, nous confronte à la violence et à l'impasse des sociétés contemporaines.
Vampyroteuthis infernalis
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L'édition inédite et définitive (établie à partir des tapuscrits originaux en français) du traité fabuleux du philosophe tchéco-brésilien Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), une fiction philosophique et poétique qui, par des chemins détournés, nous confronte à la violence et à l'impasse des sociétés contemporaines.
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Sous le vent de la mer
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« Je me rendis compte que la mer elle-même devait être le personnage central de mon récit, que je le veuille ou non. Car la mer, tenant pouvoir de vie et de mort sur chacune de ses créatures, de la plus petite à la plus grande, allait inévitablement pénétrer chaque page. » À la fin des années 1930, une jeune biologiste marine passionnée de littérature imagine un projet(...)
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Sous le vent de la mer
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« Je me rendis compte que la mer elle-même devait être le personnage central de mon récit, que je le veuille ou non. Car la mer, tenant pouvoir de vie et de mort sur chacune de ses créatures, de la plus petite à la plus grande, allait inévitablement pénétrer chaque page. » À la fin des années 1930, une jeune biologiste marine passionnée de littérature imagine un projet inédit : raconter la mer du point de vue des espèces qui la peuplent. Paru en 1941, ce grand récit polyphonique et poétique est le premier livre de Rachel Carson. C’est aussi son préféré.
The ways of paradise
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In his foreword to ''The Ways of Paradise'', Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Sweden working on his magnum opus. Upon his death, no trace of this work remains aside from this set of notes and fragments which form an enigmatic set of texts on the(...)
The ways of paradise
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In his foreword to ''The Ways of Paradise'', Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Sweden working on his magnum opus. Upon his death, no trace of this work remains aside from this set of notes and fragments which form an enigmatic set of texts on the connections between art, literature, spirituality and the occult through history, with a particular focus on spirals and labyrinths. Ranging from the Crusades to Ruskin, Freud to surrealism, cubism, automatic writing, Duchamp, the Manhattan Project, Pollock and Smithson, this cult book, first published in Sweden in 1987, is translated into English for the first time by Saskia Vogel.
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Lexicon of affinities
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With entries as varied as ‘'elbow'’, '‘Ophelia'’, '‘progress'’, the painter Giorgio Morandi, ‘"chess'’, ‘'Eulalia'’ (a friend of the author’s aunt), and ‘'unicorn'’, Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sharing her remarkable 20th century as a member of(...)
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With entries as varied as ‘'elbow'’, '‘Ophelia'’, '‘progress'’, the painter Giorgio Morandi, ‘"chess'’, ‘'Eulalia'’ (a friend of the author’s aunt), and ‘'unicorn'’, Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sharing her remarkable 20th century as a member of a storied generation of Latin American writers, of whom she is the last remaining alive. It’s a compendium of friendship, travel, reading, and the endless opportunities she found for 'the joyful possibility of creation.Like every dictionary, ''Lexicon of Affinities'' seeks to impose order on chaos, even if in its exuberant, whimsical profusion it lays bare the unstable character of the cosmos.
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WITCH: anthology
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An adult woman haunted by her childhood muses on the foster system, institutions, and the medieval tale of a girl given to a witch. A genderqueer Brooklynite learns of their past life as a murdered sorceress. An uptight participant at a Northern California witch camp finds community in the kitchen. A professor uses magic to help students under attack by right-wing(...)
WITCH: anthology
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An adult woman haunted by her childhood muses on the foster system, institutions, and the medieval tale of a girl given to a witch. A genderqueer Brooklynite learns of their past life as a murdered sorceress. An uptight participant at a Northern California witch camp finds community in the kitchen. A professor uses magic to help students under attack by right-wing politicians. n this collection of manifesto, poetry, playscripts, and prose, the archetype of the Witch is honored and unpacked, poked and prodded, owned and othered. From work centered in antiquity to writing which illustrates how primordial occult energies continue to enliven our world today, "WITCH: Anthology" lays bare a wilderness of myth, magic, trickery, and power swarming beneath the surface of contemporary life.
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Du même bois
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« Les enfants, les bébés, ils les appellent les « petitous ». Et c'est vrai qu'ils sont des petits touts. Qu'ils sont un peu de leur mère, un peu de leur père, un peu des grands-parents, un peu de ceux qui sont morts, il y a si longtemps. Tout ce qu'ils leur ont transmis, caché, inventé. Tout. C'est pas toujours facile d'être un petit tout, d'avoir en soi autant(...)
Du même bois
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« Les enfants, les bébés, ils les appellent les « petitous ». Et c'est vrai qu'ils sont des petits touts. Qu'ils sont un peu de leur mère, un peu de leur père, un peu des grands-parents, un peu de ceux qui sont morts, il y a si longtemps. Tout ce qu'ils leur ont transmis, caché, inventé. Tout. C'est pas toujours facile d'être un petit tout, d'avoir en soi autant d'histoires, autant de gens, de réussir à les faire taire pour inventer encore une petite chose à soi. » Dans une ferme, l'histoire se reproduit de génération en génération : on s'occupe des bêtes, on vit avec, celles qui sont dans l'étable et celles qui ruminent dans les têtes. Peintes sur le vif, à petites touches, les vies se dupliquent en dégradé face aux bêtes qui ont tout un paysage à pâturer. Marion Fayolle crée un monde saisissant dont la poésie brutale révèle ce qui s'imprime par les failles, par les blessures familiales, comme dans les creux des gravures en taille-douce.
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Tender buttons
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''Tender Buttons'', published in 1914, is a key document of certain experimental writing of its time. This abandons some of the orthodoxy of syntax in favour of a loose, intuitive structure of poetic associations of meaning and sound. Multiple viewpoints of each single subject—collected here in three sections, Objects, Food and Rooms—build an impression that we are being(...)
Tender buttons
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''Tender Buttons'', published in 1914, is a key document of certain experimental writing of its time. This abandons some of the orthodoxy of syntax in favour of a loose, intuitive structure of poetic associations of meaning and sound. Multiple viewpoints of each single subject—collected here in three sections, Objects, Food and Rooms—build an impression that we are being shown the whole, rather than the selected or preferred, in a conscious parallel of what Gertrude Stein’s cubist affiliates were attempting on canvas. The result is regarded by some critics as hermetic, difficult, even meaningless, an attitude promoted, paradoxically, by the workaday look of the original, whose rigid headings and justified paragraphs intimated a prose of rational sequence and the linear advancement of meaning.
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With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between(...)
The art of libromancy: On selling books and reading books in the twenty-first century
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With Amazon’s growing power in both bookselling and publishing, considering where and how we get our books is more important now than ever. The simple act of putting a book in a reader’s hands—what booksellers call handselling—becomes a catalyst for an exploration of the moral, financial, and political pressures all indie bookstores face. From the relationship between bookselling and white supremacy, to censorship and the spread of misinformation, to the consolidation of the publishing industry, veteran bookseller and writer Josh Cook turns a generous yet critical eye to an industry at the heart of American culture, sharing tips and techniques for becoming a better reader and, of course, recommending great books along the way.
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Obsidian situations
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set(...)
Obsidian situations
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Tricia Middleton’s debut verse-novel brings the artist’s genius for summoning the psychic life of the object world to the page, here trading in the resonant material vocabulary that she has honed to perfection conjuring the wayward spirits of late-stage capitalism in sculptural form, for the equally resplendent wordplay of incisive observational poetry. Ostensibly set in present-day Paris, ''Obsidian situations'' spans centuries, telling a story about the epigenetics of suffering, survival, and redemption in social and cultural form. Alternating between myriad personae—sometimes artist or artwork, poet or amorphous cloud—the anonymous, decidedly female, narrator that serves as our guide to the city of light channels the souls of works of art and ideas, of artists, philosophers, courtesans and, most heartrending of all, des Enfants-Trouvés through incantatory soliloquies that call to account the half-life of Enlightenment ideals propping up the soft and saggy moral economy of the L’age Anthropocentric. As a force of self-definition and a body objectified—and so subject to the same degradation as any and all things—our champion encounters ‘situations’ that are in equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and wretched, breathtakingly beautiful, poignant, and mad. It’s a world of museums and collectors, artists and curators, lovers and mothers, daughters and others, charged with desire and repulsion, longing and rejection, death and devastation that, ironically, can only be transformed in art and in poetry and in dreams.
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Un lac le matin
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans «(...)
Un lac le matin
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Par un beau matin de 1845, Henry David Thoreau prend possession de la cabane qu’il a construite à Walden Pond, en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pour y vivre à l’écart du monde. Le livre qu’il tire de cette expérience, « Walden ou La Vie dans les bois », fera de lui le précurseur du mouvement écologiste, l’ancêtre du nature writing, le prophète de la désobéissance civile. Dans « Un lac le matin », Louis Hamelin capte l’extraordinaire sensibilité du personnage, ses liens complexes avec Emerson, mentor à la bienveillance parfois étouffante, et son improbable amitié avec son voisin canadien-français, Alex Therrien, bûcheron et poseur de clôtures. Surtout, le romancier fait vivre pour nous un Thoreau de chair et de sang.
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