Translations
Charlie Baudelaire
Théophile Gautier
- Onuphrius or The Fantastic Vexations of an Admirer of Hoffmann
- The Thousand and Second Night
- The Opium Pipe
- The Club of the Hashshashins
Alfred Jarry
Extracts from Speculations:
- Anthropophagy
- Experimental Psychology of a Policeman
- Cynegetics of the Omnibus
- The Habits of the Drowned
- Attempt at a Definition of Courage
- Mural Morals
- The Policeman’s Brain
- Posthumous Devotions
Comte de Lautréamont
Extracts from Les Chants de Maldoror (the titles are my own):
- The Vampire (6)
- The Louse (23)
- The Shipwreck (27)
- The Octopus (29)
- The Beetle and the Pelican (45)
Frivolous fiction
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Morbid Books is a small publishing company based in South London which is creating a Temple of Surrealist Literature. Comrade Lev Parker is the high priest and poet. Lewis is a leader of mine. I met him a couple of years ago in Paris, where he was doing poet-for-hire. If you like books that are morbid, dark, occult, surreal, then this is the place to go. If you want to get a taste of his work you can read some of his shorter works online, for example, King Baby Syndrome, his account of the Insecure Men Tour, or short stories such as One Man, One Vote and A Hero of our Time.
Supervert is the pseudo-plume or nom-de-nym of an American writer who uses “the techniques of vanguard aesthetics to explore novel sexual pathologies”. His novels are available as pdfs on his website, as well as his essays. There is also an electronic library which contains, among other things Thomas de Quincey’s brilliant essay On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts. He is also the creator of fleursdumal.org, which has every poem from Baudelaire’s collection Les Fleurs du Mal with multiple English translations.
Atlas Press is a small publishing company based in London devoted to publishing an “anti-tradition” of avant-garde literary and artistic dissent. If you are in London, you can find many of these and other interesting publications at bookartbookshop in Shoreditch.
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I am a writer living in Edinburgh. I am currently working on translating texts from French to English.
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