This is the central site for a long-term project to research, examine, and respond to the radical collective of writers, theorists, architects, and visual artists who operated in Paris between 1829 and 1835 under the names of the Jeunes France & the Bouzingo, and through them to build a critical understanding of French Romanticist subculture through the historical lens of a continuing politically vigilant Anglophone avant-garde.

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Rêvenance #8 – NOW AVAILABLE!

Rêvenance: A  Zine of Hauntings From Underground Histories, No. 8

  
This magazine is the main printed venue for new research and translations concerning the Bouzingo, and the flagship journal of the Revenant Editions series, dedicated to the forgotten or untold histories of 19th Century avant-garde and other countercultures. It includes essays, translations, and many experimental forms of historical writing and research that connect those traditions to continuing radical communities today.
  
Jeunes-France/French Romanticist stuff in the new number includes a spread about Gérard de Nerval in prison (letter and poem), a Boulanger print of Paganini in prison, a frenetiuc poem by the female Romanticist Anaïs Ségalas, and an avant-Romanticist essay comparing a Hindu ceremony to local French peasant festivals.

This issue contains more recent and more early work than any yet, with a Dada review by Louis Aragon & Dada poetry by Tristan Tzara & Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes; Russian Futurist poetry by Aleksei Kruchyonykh and Vasilisk Gnedov, an anti-survey of mid-20th Century underground poetry by Jim Leftwich, and contemporary “revenant collaborations” between living and dead poets including Michael Dec, Volodymyr Bilyk, Dirk Vekemans, Retorico Unentesi, Olchar Lindsann, Nina de Callias, & more, an essay by John Wilkins on Con-Lang from 1668, texts by Gérard de Nerval on his stay in prison and his Louis Bouanger's lithograph of Paganini in prison, skeletal drawings & texts by Moloch and the feminist romantic Anaïs Ségalas, and an 1834 avant-garde attempt at comparative religion.

Featuring
The Dead: Gérard de Nerval / John Wilkins / Tristan Tzara / Anaïs Ségalas / Vasilisk Gnedov / Louis Boulanger / Alecksei Kruchyonich / Nina de Callias / Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes / Niccolò Paganini / Moloch / Louis Aragon / Auguste Bouzenot

& The Living: Jim Leftwich / Michael Dec / Gleb Kolomiets / Olchar E. Lindsann / Dirk Vekemans / Volodymyr Bilyk / Retorico Unentesi
   

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25 pgs on folded 8.5”x14”. May, A.Da. 104/A.H. 189 (2020)
$4.50 + $2.00 s/h
   
Soft deadline for contributions to the next issue: Aug. 15.
send to monoclelash@gmail.com

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