Louis Armand

Armand invites us into a funhouse of many hands. Jorge Amado kaleidoscopes with Manuel Puig & Cabrera Infante in this intramural reductio ad absurdum of bowdlerised caesars & rat-arsed revolutionaries & all the evolved flotsam of that ancient quarrel between poetry & the purgatorial...

Avant-Post engages the question of whether or not avant-garde practice remains viable under the prevailing conditions of a whole series of "post-" ideologies, from Post-Modernism and Post-Structuralism, to Post-Historicism, Post-Humanism and Post-Ideology itself. Contributors include a range of artists and theorists, such as Johanna...

Fiction. Drama. Art. What do a crashed satellite, a string of bizarre murders and a time-warp conspiracy have in common? Welcome to CAIRO, where the future's just a game and you're already dead."A genre defying anti-novel... Like communism it is the movement of vast...

The dog days of 1983. The bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut. Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov, dancing into the sunset. Hess, Ascher and Wolf are orphans chance has brought together in a small Baltic seaside town. Twenty years on, the long hot...

City Primeval traces a cultural migration, from the defining historical moments of New York Post-Punk and No Wave, to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Reunification, to the Velvet Revolution and the Prague Renaissance. Assembled in this volume are personal documentaries of place...

Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study--a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics, cultural theory, philosophy, and even cybernetics--this volume gathers a body of critical writings that, taken together, broadly delineate a possible poetics of...

Author: Louis ArmandISBN-10: 0999153579ISBN-13: 9780999153574Publisher: Anti-Oedipus PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2023Pages: 158Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Fiction. Set in and around Jardin des Plantes, Paris, Europe, the World, the Universe, Armand's short novel is a whodunit with multiple twists. The setting of the tale against a backdrop of fossils and marvels of taxidermy gives Armand's story a macroscopic dimension. As...

Author: Louis ArmandISBN-10: 8073083116ISBN-13: 9788073083113Publisher: Litteraria PragensiaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2010Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.33h x 5.46w x 0.62dAbout the AuthorLouis Armand is the author of eight novels, including Breakfast at Midnight and The Combinations. Selections of his work also appear in the Penguin Anthology of...

There is a rigour and a set of seemingly limitless practical and theoretical demands involved with JoyceMedia that make it a difficult proposition for those more used to the "method" of applying theories that have already been worked out elsewhere. It is arguable, indeed,...

Poetry. SEANCES, composed between 1993 and 1997, represents the first full-length collection of poetry from Sydney-born writer Louis Armand. Compared favorably to French poet Yves Bonnefoy, Armand has attracted growing attention from editors and the reading public alike, especially in his native Australia.Author: Louis...

Fiction. Drama. Art. The "European anti-novel" in all its unrepentant glory is here in THE COMBINATIONS, following in the tradition of Sterne, Rabelais, Cervantes, Joyce, Perec. Shortlisted for the 2016 Not the Booker prize.In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and 888 pages, Louis Armand's THE...

In 1994, in the company of Italian anarchist & photographer "Dekaro," the author travelled across Morocco & the disputed Western Sahara. The notebooks from that journey furnished the basis for The Garden which, after appearing piecemeal in magazines, was published as the inaugural title...

VAMPYR: A CHRONICLE OF REVENGEAn anti-novel of the end times, set in the heart of Golemgrad under the spell of the CORVID=69 pandemic & an apocalyptic Corp[orate]=$[tate] terror apparatus..."How do you infiltrate a mind & systematically implode it? Read Vampyr." (Ryan Madej)GLITCHHEADSimultaneously verbo-visual collage...