Microliths they are, little stones

Livro black renaissance

Livro letters, vol. 1

Livro marginalia on casanova

Livro prae, vol. 1

Livro towards the one and only metaphor

Self-Shadowing Prey, one of the final texts by the Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca (1913-1994), is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation of play with considerable exactitude and rigor, Self-Shadowing Prey is rich with neologistic stupors, nouns made verbs, and compelling repetitions and linguistic expansions. Language is not merely put into...

Italian writer/director Elio Petri (1929-1982) is of the cinematic era of Pasolini, Bertolucci, and Bellocchio, and although he is recognized by film scholars as one of the major figures of Italian cinema, his work remains largely unknown outside of Italy. Hardly a marginal figure, Petri began as an assistant to Giuseppe De Santis and his future collaborators would include many of the most renowne...

Walter Jackson Bates canonical 1939 study of Keatss concept of negative capability is a genealogical treatise that unearths the socio-political, aesthetic, and intellectual composition of Keatss most famous poetic idea. He discloses its relation to Hazlitts idea of gusto and to Shakespearean notions of impersonality and intensity while also demonstrating how negative capability presages Bergsons c...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

In the mid-fifties Paul Celan suggested that he had a mind for writing that would be a bit more sober & more spacious than his poems. And yet, in his life-time Celan published very little of such more spacious work i.e. prose except for two essays that were public award-acceptance speeches, and a few occasional bits and pieces often published, or better, hidden away in obscure places. It is only...

Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessels 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 proud to present the first new translation in over 70 years, and the first edition since Jean-Pierre Melvilles iconic 1969 film. What, then, when it comes to recounting the story of France, an obscure,...

Our Street, Sándor Tars 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 down-and-out bar where most of the characters find their consolation in alcohol, banter, sex, yearning for love, and recounting far-flung tales. Each story of Our Street reflects on and extends the next, wh...

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 life on tour in 2008 with Einstrzende Neubauten - from Lisbon to Moscow, Oslo to Naples, criss-crossing Europe. Along the way we encounter mind numbing routines, interesting restaurants (good and bad), co...