Resonances Collection, ISSN 3040-178X
Director: Jacques Cauda
I am reviving the Résonances collection, launched by Olivia-Jeanne Cohen. I will focus on manuscripts that resonate with specific writers. Olivia-Jeanne had previously connected Aragon with Valérie Molet, Olivier Larronde with Paul Sanda, and Beckett with Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret. We will follow in her footsteps. From now on, we will explore the byways, the twists and turns, and the surrounding areas, however meandering, in light of a journey reflected in the writing itself. A baroque collection—from the Portuguese word barroco, meaning pearls of astonishing shapes! Jacques Cauda. See more on Wikipedia
Jacques Cauda also manages the collections Blue-Turquin And Courtyard & Garden
Who hasn't dreamed of "knowing" what the gods are? Or at least of approaching the mystery of their existence? It's not forbidden to think that this is possible. To enter the great hall of mysteries, it's essential to simply let go of our attachment to those beliefs which, while speaking to us of God, actually bar us from Him. First, there is the word itself, then the meanings we ascribe to it. We rarely, if ever, think of returning to the source from which all that has taken the name of gods originated. From the Iliad to the Gospels, but taking unexpected detours, this book offers a journey. A journey that will allow us to grasp the extent of our denial, not so much of what it means to believe, but of what it implies. It opens doors to rarely explored realms: those of religious practices that partly escape any orthodoxy, those of the Anastenaria in Greece, those of mystics, those that populate science fiction novels, and those analyzed by neurobiologist Jill Bolte Taylor. It reveals some secrets of our brain and psyche, particularly by explaining the nature of the Greek gods in light of Julian Jaynes's work. Finally, it propels us through literary works (Homer, Chrétien de Troyes, Fitzgerald, Philip K. Dick, Kluge), theological texts (Boethius, Saint Anselm), and philosophical works (Plato, Nietzsche) to the threshold of the most well-known experience in our lands: that of Christ, through a fresh reinterpretation of the four canonical Gospels. Publication date: February 2, 2026. Order Press release
The Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is a cycle of fourteen poems—to be spoken, shouted, and whispered—comprising over thirteen hundred pages. A CD has been produced featuring 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 as a backdrop and performed three times, the last at the Théâtre du Beauvaisis—a national theater in the barn of the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare in Beauvais—the first performance being available to view in its entirety online. Readings of excerpts have taken place, as well as the publication of passages in artists' books or "livres pauvres" (poor books) and exhibitions. A complete reading of the entire Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is available online. The End of a Century! is the fourth poem in the cycle. Publication date: January 2, 2025. Order Press release
The Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is a cycle of fourteen poems—to be spoken, shouted, and whispered—comprising over thirteen hundred pages. A CD has been produced featuring 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 as a backdrop and performed three times, the last at the Théâtre du Beauvaisis—a national theater in the barn of the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare in Beauvais—the first performance being available to view in its entirety online. Readings of excerpts have taken place, as well as the publication of passages in artists' books or "livres pauvres" (poor books) and exhibitions. A complete reading of the entire Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is available online. The Limits of Sexuality, Finally Pushed Back, is the third poem in the cycle. Publication date: November 3, 2025. Order Press release
Far removed from scholarly publications, indigestible academic tomes, or stifling, pudding-like essays, this vitriolic account should be read with the curiosity of a child, or the avidity of a free-spirited Céline enthusiast—which should be a tautology… Émeric Cian-Grangé offers us here the chance to finally unveil what lies beneath the surface. The secrets of his past rages, his wounded loves, and also his battles. The one the author waged with perseverance, endurance, and open-mindedness: giving voice to the readership. A particularly fitting approach given that Céline himself honed his prose in the suburbs, in the Passage Choiseul, while reading Dabit. Enriched with numerous previously unpublished appendices, this collection of portraits and settling of scores—from the most anonymous reader to the most illustrious Céline scholars—sounds the death knell for compromise, but can at least proclaim its authenticity. This book thus retraces the journey of a passion born in high school, but which would steadfastly refute the schoolboy mentality that Céline criticized. Yannick Gomez Publication: October 1, 2025 Order Press release
“From childhood, when I saw my sister dance, I realized that something was happening, that it was imprinting itself somewhere within me, not on the side of the dancer, but on the side of the choreographer.” Throughout his dialogues with Philippe Bouret, Hervé Koubi unfolds what it means to him to be a choreographer. He explains, “Being a choreographer is like creating a wave on which the dancers surf. It’s a metaphor I particularly like. The wave is what is written. I don’t change the wave. It translates itself, it can break, even crash, but it has a precise, deliberate force, a form, and my dancers work with it. My role is to create waves and allow each dancer to invent, from these waves, a form of freedom.” Hervé Koubi also elaborates on his conception of the ensemble, of the chorus, when he is creating a piece. “There is an incredible power in a group. It could be birds, men and women, or even a field of wheat in the wind in May. That's what moves me deeply. Being together, regardless of gender. I've always had teams with many dancers, and what emerges from this constant is always the idea of a group, the idea of the collective, the idea of the dancing chorus.” Publication: September 1, 2025 Order Press Release
The Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is a cycle of fourteen poems—to be spoken, shouted, and whispered—comprising over thirteen hundred pages. A CD has been produced featuring the author reading a significant excerpt from each poem and a sound composition created specifically for each poem by Laurent Maza. A stage version of this CD, featuring a slideshow by the painter Lawrence as a backdrop, has been performed three times, the last at the Théâtre du Beauvaisis—a national theater located in the barn of the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare in Beauvais—the first performance being available to view in its entirety online. Readings of excerpts have taken place, as well as the publication and exhibition of passages in artists' books or "livres pauvres" (poor books). A complete reading of the entire Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is available online. The Choice of Madness is the second poem in the cycle. Publication date: September 1, 2025. Order Press release
The Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is a cycle of fourteen poems—to be spoken, shouted, and whispered—comprising over thirteen hundred pages. A CD has been produced featuring the author reading a significant excerpt from each poem and a sound composition created specifically for each poem by Laurent Maza. A stage version of this CD, featuring a slideshow by the painter Lawrence as a backdrop, has been performed three times, the last at the Théâtre du Beauvaisis—a national theater located in the barn of the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare in Beauvais—the first performance being available to view in its entirety online. Readings of excerpts have taken place, as well as the publication and exhibition of passages in artists' books or "livres pauvres" (poor books). A complete reading of the entire Great Cycle of Life, or the Human Odyssey, is available online. Solitude is the first poem in the cycle. Publication date: July 1, 2025. Order Press release
Faced with productivist or amateur photographers who leave the world as desolate as it is predictable, a few rare creators become irreplaceable. Adding to the image on one hand, diminishing reality on the other, these photographers, through their choices, avoid the game of blinding bursts of light. They hunt for shadow. For them, seeing less reveals more. And this is true in various 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," 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 rather perspectives through new layers, leading to a different kind of beauty. Publication: June 2, 2025. Order Press Release
In *Perpetuity for Defenders of Infinity*, Valéry Molet passionately explores Louis Aragon's unfinished and mythical work, *The Defense of Infinity*. Through a scholarly and insightful analysis, he illuminates the poetic and philosophical stakes of a text that dreamed of capturing infinity. Acclaimed by critics for his first essay, *The Call of the Ruins*, devoted to Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Valéry Molet continues his work on the great literary figures of the 20th century, confronting their utopias and disillusionments. This book, at the crossroads of literary criticism and personal reflection, offers a unique immersion into the world of Aragon and the defenders of eternity. Publication date: March 1, 2025. Order Press release
By naming his harpsichord piece *Les Barricades mystérieuses* (The Mysterious Barricades), François Couperin could hardly have imagined, at the dawn of the 18th century, that his title would have repercussions far beyond music. Painters and writers seized upon it, and it was perhaps without knowing the work—they make 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 the individual to the point of their inability to exist and their emptiness. The realms of the body, like those of space and time, undergo—through fiction, poetry, film, television, and radio—everything that collapses, then fades and is extinguished by the power of the imagination. The essay, through its 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 quotations are emblematic of this paradoxical work, poised between the impossibility of expression and erasure: from "In the beginning was the pun" to "Enough with the pictures," where only the music of silence in the dark remains. Publication date: September 1, 2024. Order now
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
Reflecting on self-image immediately raises questions about the nature of this noun phrase, namely the noun, the image, and its complement, the reciprocity of the self. The mere mention of this expression sets its own meaning in motion, a source of multiple questions. Is it self-being, a double of myself that I present to others, an identity, an ephemeral construct? How can we grasp its definitions and contours? How should we approach it? This work examines the situation of being-in-the-world from various angles, insofar as we can understand its foundations and implications. Reflections on this quest for identity, an expression of different states of self explored to varying degrees and through different philosophical, sensory, and literary approaches, also express the author's positions and commitment, particularly in the second part of the work: the writing of a shock, that of October 7, 2023, which reopened the stage of abomination, summoning shadows, hallucinations, and fantasies. October 7 reactivated the vehement, obsessive image. A nomadic gaze that has encountered other gazes, those of History and a thousand lives, the expression of these aspects of being-in-the-world, of ontological questions about immanence, about the relativity of one's situation in the world and in one's relationship to the other, through an observant gaze, one that has also been honed over many years in the guise of Thought, imbued with literature and philosophical reflection. Publication date: April 1, 2024 Order now
