Alastair Brotchie og Harry Mathews
What do Marcel Duchamp and Italo Calvino have in common? The Oulipo, or Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle. This “Workshop for Potential...
"It is not every day we get a thesis such as Céline wrote on Semmelweis!" – Henry Miller, The Books in My Life Louis-Ferdinand...
The German and Austrian Expressionists of the first two decades of the twentieth century constituted one of the truest and most energetic avant-garde...
Jacques Caumont og Jennifer Gough-Cooper
A must for Duchamp devotees everywhere! This little introduction to the life and works of Marcel Duchamp was...
A situation: “Midnight. A locked door. The window sealed with a lattice of eyes. The tinkling countess. The...
Self-revelations after time and death, an extraordinary novella from the oddest of the German Expressionists whose works are undergoing a complete...
Two splendidly adolescent plays by Monsieur Alfred Henri Jarry, the second graphically interpreted by Henry Meyer, Director of the Centre du...
This second volume of the Collected Works presents three early novels: Days and Nights, a semi-autobiographical novel whose protagonist deserts...
Circular Walks is a sort-of-novel that recounts the curious history of three characters: Vera, Mervyn and Walter...
Michel Leiris (1901-1990) was a poet, novelist, and ethnographer. After leaving the Surrealist group, he was associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and...
This selection of Harry Mathews’s longer prose writings attests his innovative genius in seven radically differing works: Country Cooking in...
This text constitutes the author’s afterword to the fall of jerusalem. This pamphlet offprint of 500 copies was...
In former times, life was like a book of some kind: it was necessary to leave some pages blank. This aphorism was the second of threee such remarks...
A collection of Decadent poems, with an extended Life of the Poet, which was published originally in 1885, only for it...
Some Limericks has the dubious distinction of being one of the most frequently pirated books of all time. Since its first appearance in 1928 illegal...
Georges Perec (1936-1982) became the most celebrated French writer of his generation, his novel Life A User’s...
This short novel, originally published in 1931, by the author of two of the classics of 20th-century Italian prose (That Awful Mess on Via Merulana,...
Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Otto Muehl
The limited edition has an attached wrapper of hand-made paper blind-stamped with the Arkhive symbols and signed by...
Entirely serious explorations of what is possible in painting using media of surprising provenance. Pol Bury was an...
Raymond Roussel (1877-1933) - poet, novelist, playwright, musician, chess enthusiast, neurasthenic, homosexual, drug addict, probable suicide - an...
A history of the College accompanied by its principal doctrinal and constitutional documents: statutes, manifestos,...
"Dada Means Nothing!” So proclaimed Tristan Tzara, the movement’s tireless publicist. Yet this did not prevent the most fanatical...
Michel Leiris, Robert Desnos, Georges Limbour
This book contains: Robert Desnos . Mourning for...
This volume collects together the Dada writings of Theo van Doesburg, the celebrated De Stijl architect. Apart from the title lecture these texts...
When Le Château de Cène (here translated as The Castle of Communion) first appeared in France in 1969, under the sonorous pseudonym of Urbain...
The texts in this volume by the leader of the Belgian section of the Surrealist movement were selected by his old...
Le Voyage d’hiver was first published in Saisons (Hachette, Paris 1979); the translation by John Sturrock first appeared in the Penguin...
Pierre de Ruysnes og Jehan Sylvius
When it was first brought out, by a publisher specialising in erotica (in a series containing such titles as Les Passions de Gisèle and Les Plaisirs...
The collected short and absurdist stories of the Romanian writer “Urmuz”, dating from the early years of the twentieth century up until...
In 1970, Unica Zürn, the companion and lover of the Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer, threw herself from the sixth floor window of their apartment in...
Lytle Shaw has published four poetry chapbooks, two in collaboration with the artist Emile Clark, with whom he edits Shark, a...
Caesar Antichrist was Jarry’s second book, published in a luxurious limited edition, carefully illustrated by the author. The text, partly...
Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, Walter Serner
The German contribution to the Dada movement (“DADA MEANS NOTHING!” proclaimed Tristan Tzara) as it...
In a short and legendary life, Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) created a unique and large body of work that included plays, novels, poetry, journalism and...
Erik Satie og Ornella Volta (red.)
Dismissed as a bizarre eccentric by many, Erik Satie has come to be seen as a key influence on twentieth century music. His compositions include,...
Guy Debord is best known as the prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972), as a filmmaker, and as the author of The Society of the...
4 Stories: Glass Eyes, The Panorama, Musical Notebook for X, Description of a Painting Stories by the dissident Surrealist, associate of Bataille...
Robert Filliou, Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri
This edition is limited to 100 numbered copies for sale, with twenty copies hors commerce lettered A to T, reserved for...
Robert Filliou, Dieter Roth, Daniel Spoerri
An Anecdoted Topography of Chance is arguably the most important and entertaining “Artist’s Book” of...
Panizza’s great work, and a landmark in the honorable history of literary blasphemy. God invents syphilis to punish humanity, while his son...
