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CONTRA MUNDUM PRESS
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Contra Mundum Press publishes modernist works that test the boundaries of thought & experience. Our vision is informed by a poetics of hospitality, which is enacted thru translation. As a home to lone & exiled or forgotten voices, we welcome the voices, & so the lives & experiences, of “foreigners.”
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Our Catalog page contains the entirety of our current and backlist publications. This includes works of poetry, philosophy, drama, cinema, essays & criticism, fiction, hybrid texts, and Agrodolce, our series of unorthodox books on food. Our books can be ordered by each individual book page.
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LES ENTRETIENS DE PO&SIE CONTRA MUNDUM & LA REVUE HYPERION
LES ENTRETIENS DE PO&SIE CONTRA MUNDUM & LA REVUE HYPERION
À l’occasion du dixième anniversaire de la maison d’édition new-yorkaise Contra Mundum Press, la revue Po&sie accueille Rainer Hanshe, directeur de Contra Mundum, Mary Shaw, Kari Hukkila, Carole Viers-Andronico & Pierre Senges. Rainer Hanshe et son équipe publient la revue Hyperion : on the Future of Aesthetics et, avec une imagination et une précision éditoriales […]
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Closing Melodies: Nietzsche & Van Gogh
Closing Melodies: Nietzsche & Van Gogh
SYNOPSISAs the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling o...
NY Times Dining — Ugo Tognazzi & the Injester (Penna alla vodka)
NY Times Dining — Ugo Tognazzi & the Injester (Penna alla vodka)
GQ: Adam Leith Gollner on Rédoine Faïd & Outlaw
GQ: Adam Leith Gollner on Rédoine Faïd & Outlaw
Master criminal Rédoine Faïd loved the movies, and his greatest crimes were laced with tributes: to "Point Break," "Heat," and "Reservoir Dogs." When he landed in a maximum-security prison, cinema provided inspiration once again.
Order Rédoine Faïd's OUTLAW (Amazon US)
Order Rédoine Faïd's OUTLAW (Amazon US)
OUTLAW (Amazon UK)
OUTLAW (Amazon UK)
Outlaw: Author Armed & Dangerous : Faïd, Rédoine, Pierrat, Jérôme, Simmons, John Galbraith: Amazon.co.uk: Books
TLS: Andrew Hussey on Outlaw
TLS: Andrew Hussey on Outlaw
INTERVIEWS
Meet the Translator | Dot Roberts Interviews Genese Grill
Meet the Translator | Dot Roberts Interviews Genese Grill
Asymptote: Rainer J. Hanshe on difference, dissonance, & more
Asymptote: Rainer J. Hanshe on difference, dissonance, & more
. . . we say to read for difference, for dissonance; read not to identify, or to sympathize, but from a principle of fascination.
Feeling Bookish: Genese Grill & Theater Symptoms
Feeling Bookish: Genese Grill & Theater Symptoms
3:AM: Genese Grill on Translating Musil
3:AM: Genese Grill on Translating Musil
The greatest challenge in translating Musil is also the greatest joy. And both the challenge and the joy are embodied in the third noun of your question: “Surprise”. Musil is a writer at war with what he calls “congealed metaphors”–clich és, received ideas, “dead words”. The freshness of the words, the images, and the sentences' syntax is as important as the ideas they carry, and a translator must always resist the temptation to replace his surprising arrangements with common phrases or more conventional concepts. Joseph Schreiber interviews Genese Grill.
HLO: Erika Mihálycsa — It's Like Caviar
HLO: Erika Mihálycsa — It's Like Caviar
Love of poteen/pálinka/țuica runs deep in both populations, I guess. I think perhaps a sense of unease in language may be common – both the (English-speaking) Irish and Transylvanian Hungarians speak a minor version of the language – Owen Good's interview with lecturer and translator Erika Mihálycsa.
REVIEWS
Capital and Culture: Musil's Politics
Capital and Culture: Musil's Politics
At the age of fifty-six, Robert Musil was already writing of his career in valedictory terms. That year he published the short prose collection Posthumous Papers of a Living Author in Zurich. It was that same year that Musil suffered his first stroke. If the author felt he was scrambling to publish against borrowed tim
Jason Weiss on Pierre Joris (Brooklyn Rail)
Jason Weiss on Pierre Joris (Brooklyn Rail)
Inside Ugo Tognazzi's Cult of Cuisine
Inside Ugo Tognazzi's Cult of Cuisine
Tobias Ryan on Blixa Bargeld's Europe Crosswise
Tobias Ryan on Blixa Bargeld's Europe Crosswise
In 2011, having finished my studies and with little idea what to do next, I left for South America with my sister and her thirteen-month-old son. Following a brief, unsuccessful attempt at getting …
Ryan Ruby on Senges's AHAB (SEQUELS) for The Nation
Ryan Ruby on Senges's AHAB (SEQUELS) for The Nation
Bedlam Files on Carmelo Bene's Our Lady of the Turks
Bedlam Files on Carmelo Bene's Our Lady of the Turks
Gianluca Pulsoni on Carmelo Bene's I Appeared to the Madonna
Gianluca Pulsoni on Carmelo Bene's I Appeared to the Madonna
The Modern Novel on Szentkuthy's PRAE, VOL 2
The Modern Novel on Szentkuthy's PRAE, VOL 2
Mary Shaw on Contra Mundum, Shattering the Muses en plus
Mary Shaw on Contra Mundum, Shattering the Muses en plus
HLO: Tom Sneddon on It's Raining in Moscow
HLO: Tom Sneddon on It's Raining in Moscow
THE DRIFT: DE on Duras' The Darkroom
THE DRIFT: DE on Duras' The Darkroom
HLO: Tom Sneddon on Chapter on Love
HLO: Tom Sneddon on Chapter on Love
FI: Gianluca Rizzo on I Appeared to the Madonna
FI: Gianluca Rizzo on I Appeared to the Madonna
TLS: Andrew Hussey on Outlaw
TLS: Andrew Hussey on Outlaw
Brooklyn Rail: Sahar Khraibani on The Oyster
Brooklyn Rail: Sahar Khraibani on The Oyster
LARB: David Auerbach on Theater Symptoms
LARB: David Auerbach on Theater Symptoms
LARB: Diána Vonnák on It's Raining in Moscow
LARB: Diána Vonnák on It's Raining in Moscow
ESSAYS
Genese Grill: Robert Musil & the Crisis of the Artist...
Genese Grill: Robert Musil & the Crisis of the Artist...
LAURELS
2021 PEN/MANHEIM TRANSLATION AWARD — PIERRE JORIS
2021 PEN/MANHEIM TRANSLATION AWARD — PIERRE JORIS
WLT Notable Translation: It's Raining in Moscow
WLT Notable Translation: It's Raining in Moscow
Guardian: Best Book of the Year — Marginalia on Casnova
Guardian: Best Book of the Year — Marginalia on Casnova
CLMP Reading List for Women's History Month
CLMP Reading List for Women's History Month
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CMP IN MOTION — BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS!
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THE OGLER — BOOK CAMPAIGN
Carmelo Bene: Majakovskij
Carmelo Bene: Majakovskij
Gherasim Luca: Passionnément
Gherasim Luca: Passionnément
Desire: A Speaking Portrait (Robert Kelly)
Desire: A Speaking Portrait (Robert Kelly)
To Have Done with the Judgment of God
To Have Done with the Judgment of God
Wolfgang Rihm, "Poème dansé" (Artaud)
Wolfgang Rihm, "Poème dansé" (Artaud)
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True History of Artaud the Momo: 1
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True History of Artaud the Momo: 2
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