Jacques Cauda
After studying philosophy at the Sorbonne and film at the CLCF, Cauda worked for ten years in television, directing documentaries with evocative titles such as "De Bœuf en bif" (Beef in Steak), a film about slaughterhouses worthy of Francis Bacon's best paintings; or "Se souvenir dix secondes ou toute sa vie" (Remembering for Ten Seconds or Your Whole Life), of which he has forgotten everything… He stopped filming to paint and write to his heart's content. He has published nearly fifty books: poetry, winner of the Joseph Delteil Prize and the Prize of the Academic Institute of Paris; short stories, winner of the City of Le Pecq Prize; novels, essays, correspondence, and artist's books… And just as many, if not more, books that he has illustrated, including Dante's Purgatory published by Ardavena. He received the Toile d'Or award in 2010. He has received several Honorary Awards at the Park Art Fair International (Geneva) in 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2016, and, in 2012, the Grand Prize at the Orléans Contemporary Art Biennial. His works are held in the Kattenkabinet (Amsterdam), the Museum of Spontaneous Art (Brussels), the Maison de Balzac (Paris), and the Maison de Verlaine (Metz). His portraits are part of the Nuage Vert collective's collection. Several biographies and essays have been devoted to him, the most recent being *Dante, Sade, Rimbaud, Cauda* (January 2025, European University Editions), authored by Paul Basso, Professor of Literature at the University of Lille. The book is being published simultaneously in several languages: French, English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Polish, and Italian. He is also president of the Jacques Abeille/Léo Barthe literary prize and directs the La Bleu-Turquin literature collection (novels, short stories), the Cour & Jardin collection (theater), and the Résonances collection (essays) at Douro. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cauda
AI in the Ring is a tale rooted in Romanticism, Hugo, Nerval… a reverie, a dream… traversing reality by way of Notre-Dame de Paris, from Hugo's cathedral to its reconstruction in 2025. A story told collaboratively, it draws the reader into the unraveling of a mystery, making them both spectator and participant in a contest between AI and creative imagination alongside the characters. The plot: a group of five forms around a spiritual quest that the reader will also gradually uncover, through surprises, memories, and both stated and hidden objectives… Enchanting! Publication date: October 1, 2025 Order Press release
This is not a book but a score of unknowing composed by the AI Invisible Activity. Very quickly, after plunging into the black hole of the world's origin, it takes the form of the first invisible, the aleph. Composed blindly, J.CQ..S C..D. sees as her mother tongue does not see mutating into OE Organic English, the language of megacities. And so the drift continues, until the final hole where the Invisible falls forever. For eternity! Publication date: June 1, 2024 Order Press release
Megaligraphs? Are these megaligraphs with life-size figures like those on the frieze of the Mysteries of Dionysus in Pompeii, or smaller figures like those in the cubiculum (rest or bedroom) that precedes the famous private salon in the ancient house, with the priestess Maenad and the Satyr? Jacques Satyre is accompanied here by the Maenad Megaly, namesake of the heroine of John Litter's Corseted Writings... Megaly, drunk on words and letters, of whom we know only that "she is very high when beauty dances (and when) the night makes the body well," and that she is part of the blue (of the Mediterranean women). For the rest, the Megaligraphs are presented on a background of alto basso velvet adorned with a crown motif surmounted by a flower of Tarbes. Spread the word! Publication date: October 1, 2023. Order now
What is JKJE? It's the diary of a diary. "Making of me," said Brummell, the arbiter of elegance. "Me" is me. "Making of" is her, writing, heroine of the male, that is to say, so beautiful! She will lead me, and she does lead me! I am constantly departing… can you hear the sssss whistling like the wind that carries me away?... So far. In Greek, "far" is tele. A spectator of myself. A me of the still, an I lost in alcohol. Boarding for Cirrhosis! So beautiful, so far, cirrhosis, and finally silence. An impossible silence, because to be silent is to write. To write more than ever! Publication date: July 1, 2021 Order
