Contra Mundum Press
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The Testament: (& Other Texts)
$21.00 Add to cartRilke’s Testament opens with the outbreak of WWI, a devastating world event that prevents the poet from returning to the “incomparable city of Paris,” and which is entwined with his own debilitating c… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: December 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1940625807
- Language: English
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Always the Many, Never the One
$20.00 Add to cartWith a starting point on July 14, 2021, when the Centre national de litt駻ature hosted Pierre Joris’ 75th birthday celebration, Always the Many, Never the One builds upon the initial interview by Flo
- Author: Joris, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1940625580
- Language: English
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Unions: Two Stories
$16.00 Add to cartIn 1911, following his 1906 debut, The Confusions of Young T rless, Robert Musil published the two experimental stories that make up Unions. “The Completion of Love” and “The Temptation of Quiet Veron
- Author: Musil, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1940625300
- Language: English
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Journey to Mexico
$34.00 Add to cartOn 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 … [more below]
- Author: Artaud, Antonin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: March 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1940625645
- Language: English
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Aline and Valcour, Vol. 1: or, the Philosophical Novel
$18.00 Add to cartSet 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
- Author: Sade, Marquis de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1940625319
- Language: English
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The Divine Mimesis
$18.00 Add to cartWritten 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 also… [more below]
- Author: Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1940625076
- Language: English
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Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville
$20.00 Add to cartThe crosscurrents between the classic Hollywood cinema and France’s postwar cinema are rich in producing iconic imagery with philosophical resonance, and no filmmaker has immersed himself in this proj
- Author: Dickos, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1940625475
- Language: English
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The Creativity of the Crisis
$18.00 Add to cartIt 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, social,
- Author: Grossman, Évelyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 194062553X
- Language: English
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Eternity by the Stars: An Astronomical Hypothesis
$20.00 Add to cartIn a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the constant revolutionary, wrote Eternity by the … [more below]
- Author: Blanqui, Louis-Auguste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0983697299
- Language: English
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Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous
$20.00 Add to cartMemoirs of celebrated criminals purvey vivid personal stories while spawning sharp questions about the cultures that produced them. In Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous, R doine Fa d, of Algerian immig
- Author: Faïd, Rédoine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1940625386
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh
$22.00 Add to cartComposed over 2,500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2,000 more, Gilgamesh presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and courtly lyrics and lore. The story of a visionary journey be
- Author: Kendall, Stuart T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0983697205
- Language: English
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Interglacial Narrows
$20.00 Add to cartInterglacial 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, initi
- Author: Joris, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: April 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1940625572
- Language: English
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Philosophical Essays: A Critical Edition
$20.00 Add to cartFernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by “thousands of philosophies,” all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished project of English-language Philosophical Essays. The resulting fragments … [more below]
- Author: Pessoa, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: December 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0983697264
- Language: English
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Born Upon the Dark Spear
$18.00 Add to cartChasm. 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 mo… [more below]
- Author: Shamlu, Ahmad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: December 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1940625165
- Language: English
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Prae, Vol. 1
$40.00 Add to cartConsidered 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 Szentk… [more below]
- Author: Szentkuthy, Miklos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 788
- Publish Date: December 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1940625084
- Language: English
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Towards the One and Only Metaphor
$25.00 Add to cartUnique 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 Hevesi… [more below]
- Author: Szentkuthy, Miklos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1940625009
- Language: English
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Thought Flights
$23.50 Add to cartRobert 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 Gen… [more below]
- Author: Musil, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1940625106
- Language: English
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Writings on Art and Poetical Theory
$20.00 Add to cartWritings on Art and Poetical Theory contains a selection of Fernando Pessoa’s writings (or those of his heteronyms) on art and poetical theory, originally written in English. In Pessoa’s oeuvre one fi… [more below]
- Author: Pessoa, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1940625505
- Language: English
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Negative Capability: On the Intuitive Approach in Keats
$16.00 Add to cartWalter Jackson Bate’s canonical 1939 study of Keats’s concept of negative capability is a genealogical treatise that unearths the socio-political, aesthetic, and intellectual composition of Keats’s mo… [more below]
- Author: Bate, Walter Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 03 2012
- ISBN10: 098369723X
- Language: English
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Night Train to Sugar Hill
$20.00 Add to cart1980s Los Angeles. The crack epidemic has hit hard. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug — a teenager accidentally overdoses, junkies smoke crack laced with cyan
- Author: Slim, Iceberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: August 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1940625297
- Language: English
