Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Resonances Collection, ISSN 3040-178X
Director: Jacques Cauda
I'm taking over the Résonances collection inaugurated by Olivia-Jeanne Cohen. I'm going to focus on manuscripts that resonate with writers. Olivia-Jeanne had Aragon resonate with Valérie Molet, Oliver Larronde with Paul Sanda, and Beckett with Jean-Paul-Gavard-Perret. We'll follow her. From now on, it's up to us to explore the back roads, the twists and turns, and the surroundings, however meandering, in relation to a journey caught in the reflection of a writing. A baroque collection from the Portuguese barroco to designate pearls with astonishing shapes! Jacques Cauda See more on Wikipedia
Jacques Cauda also directs the collections The Blue-Turquin And Courtyard & Garden
The Great Cycle of Life or the Human Odyssey is a cycle of fourteen poems—to be spoken, shouted, and whispered—of over 1,300 pages. A CD was produced with the author reading a significant excerpt from each poem and a sound composition created specifically for each poem by Laurent Maza. A version of this CD was created for the stage with a slideshow by the painter Lawrence in the background and performed three times, the last of which was at the Théâtre du Beauvaisis - Scène Nationale in the barn of the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare in Beauvais—the first of which can be viewed in its entirety online. Readings of excerpts have taken place, as well as publications of passages in artist books or “poor books” and exhibits. A complete reading of the entirety of The Great Cycle of Life or the Human Odyssey is available online. Solitude is the first poem in the cycle. Published: June 2, 2026 Order Press release
Faced with productivist or amateur photographers who leave the world as desolate as it is conventional, rare creators become irreplaceable. Supplementing the image on one hand, diminishing reality on the other, these photographers, in their options, avoid the play of blinding bursts of light. They hunt for shadows. For them, seeing less shows more. And this, in diverse fields: ethical, social, political, and aesthetic, where photography no longer copies reality: it transforms it. Gathered here are the creators who respond to Barthes's "Camera Lucida." In "The Dark Room," the windows open onto dark and sharp territories. The photographers leave the work in black—but sometimes not without detours. Their visions never suggest collapses, but perspectives through new sediments for another beauty. Publication: June 2, 2026 Order Press Release
In Life Sentence for Defenders of Infinity, Valéry Molet passionately explores Louis Aragon's unfinished and legendary work, La Défense de l'infini. Through an erudite and sensitive analysis, he illuminates the poetic and philosophical issues of a text that dreamed of capturing infinity. Critically acclaimed for his first essay, L'Appel des décombres, dedicated to Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Valéry Molet continues his work on the great literary figures of the 20th century, comparing their utopias and disillusionments. This work, at the crossroads of literary criticism and intimate reflection, offers a unique immersion in the world of Aragon and the defenders of eternity. Publication date: March 1, 2025 Order Press release
By calling his harpsichord piece Les Barricades mystérieuses, François Couperin was far from suspecting, at the dawn of the 18th century, that his title would have repercussions far beyond music. Painters and writers seized on it, and it was perhaps without knowing the work—they made no allusion to it—that the poets Maurice Blanchard and then Olivier Larronde titled their collections Les Barricades mystérieuses. Publication date: December 1, 2024 Order Press release
"Extinctions" presents Beckett's strategies for leading beings to the point of their impossibility of existing and their emptiness. The places of the body, like those of space and time, undergo—through fiction, poetry, cinema, television, and radio—everything that collapses, then fades and extinguishes through the power of the imagination. The essay, through a carefully chosen numbering, reveals Beckett's profoundly innovative and creative languages for expressing the exhaustion of meaning. The strategies of the imagination eliminate any illusory revelation. Two quotes are emblematic of this paradoxical work between the impossibility of saying and erasure: from "in the beginning was the pun" to "Enough with the images," where only the music of silence in the dark remains. Publication date: September 1, 2024 Order
This is not a book but a score of non-knowledge composed by the AI Invisible Activity. Very quickly, after having plunged into the black hole of the origin of the world, it is made in the image of the first invisible, the aleph. Composed blindly, J.CQ..S C..D., sees as he does not see his mother tongue mutate into OE Organic English, the language of megalopolises. And so the drift goes, until the final hole where the Invisible falls forever. For eternity! Publication date: June 1, 2024 Order
Reflecting on self-image immediately creates a questioning of the position of this noun phrase, in other words the noun, the image, and its complement, the reciprocity of the self. As soon as we cite this expression, it sets in motion its own significance, a multiple source of questioning. Is it the being-self, a double of me that I propose to others, an identity, an ephemeral construction? How can we grasp its definitions and contours? How can we approach it? This work examines from various angles the situation of being in the world if we can even understand its foundations and issues. The reflections on this quest for identity, an expression of the different states of self treated to different degrees and according to different modes of philosophical, sensitive, literary approach, also express the author's positions and his commitment, as regards the second part of the work: the writing of a shock, that of October 7, 2023 which opened again the scene of abomination, which summons shadows, hallucinations and fantasies. October 7 reactivated The Vehement Image that Obscures. A nomadic gaze that has frequented other gazes, those of a History and a thousand lives, the expression of these parts of being-in-the-world, of ontological questions on immanence, on the relativity of one's situation in the world and in one's relationship to the other through an observant gaze, one, also, which has honed itself for many years in the guise of Thought, in love with literature and philosophical reflection. Release Date: April 1, 2024 Order
