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OUR BOOKS – Atlas Press https://atlaspress.co.uk Publishers Of The "Anti-Tradition" Since 1983 Wed, 27 May 2026 16:14:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://atlaspress.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/at_only.png OUR BOOKS – Atlas Press https://atlaspress.co.uk 32 32 Unica Zürn THE MAN OF JASMINE & OTHER TEXTS https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/unica-zurn-the-man-of-jasmine-other-texts-copy/ Mon, 05 May 2025 10:02:21 +0000 https://atlaspress.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=410 THE HOUSE OF ILLNESSES. Atlas Anti-classic 25. 2020, ISBN: 978-1-900565-82-0, 192pp, hardback with decorated endpapers.

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]]> Pierre Mac Orlan, Thieri Foulc & Paul Gayot THIERI FOULC & PIERRE MAC ORLAN https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/pierre-mac-orlan-thieri-foulc-paul-gayot-thieri-foulc-pierre-mac-orlan/ Mon, 05 May 2025 10:01:05 +0000 https://atlaspress.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=409
Translated by Andrew Hodgson, with verse translations by Timothy Ades. Additional texts by Alastair Brotchie & Barnaby Dicker This issue of the Journal was already in preparation when we heard the sad news of the occultation of Theiri Foulc. In honour of the vital roles he played in the Collège de ’Pataphysique, in the London Institute of ’Pataphysics and in the publishing work of Atlas Press, a first section of this Journal constitutes a sort of memorial. The majority of it, however, is a record of an evening at his atelier when he invited a number of friends to select and read favourite passages from the works of Pierre Mac Orlan, a satrap of the Collège and good friend of its second Vice-Curator, the Baron Mollet. Thus an unthought-of and somewhat arbitrary selection of his works came into being which seemed an interesting way of introducing this writer to the English-speaking world. Mac Orlan was an essential presence in the bohemia of the turn of the last century, especially that around the Montmartre cabaret, the Lapin Agile. We leave it to readers to discover here the wide range of his literary output (novels, poetry, chansons etc.), which became distinctly popular. The volume finishes with a memoir of his youth in these environs as they related to Alfred Jarry and his works. The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, Journal 22, Absolu 148, 399 numbered copies.
2020, ISBN: 978-1-913407-02-5, 92pp, paperbound, illustrated.
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Translated by Andrew Hodgson, with verse translations by Timothy Ades. Additional texts by Alastair Brotchie & Barnaby Dicker This issue of the Journal was already in preparation when we heard the sad news of the occultation of Theiri Foulc. In honour of the vital roles he played in the Collège de ’Pataphysique, in the London Institute of ’Pataphysics and in the publishing work of Atlas Press, a first section of this Journal constitutes a sort of memorial. The majority of it, however, is a record of an evening at his atelier when he invited a number of friends to select and read favourite passages from the works of Pierre Mac Orlan, a satrap of the Collège and good friend of its second Vice-Curator, the Baron Mollet. Thus an unthought-of and somewhat arbitrary selection of his works came into being which seemed an interesting way of introducing this writer to the English-speaking world. Mac Orlan was an essential presence in the bohemia of the turn of the last century, especially that around the Montmartre cabaret, the Lapin Agile. We leave it to readers to discover here the wide range of his literary output (novels, poetry, chansons etc.), which became distinctly popular. The volume finishes with a memoir of his youth in these environs as they related to Alfred Jarry and his works. The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, Journal 22, Absolu 148, 399 numbered copies.
2020, ISBN: 978-1-913407-02-5, 92pp, paperbound, illustrated.
]]> Secretariat of Issuance 20XX20 https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/secretariat-of-issuance-20xx20/ Mon, 05 May 2025 09:58:39 +0000 https://atlaspress.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=407 Journal 22.5, Absolu 148, 156 numbered copies.]]> Journal 22.5, Absolu 148, 156 numbered copies.]]> The Brothers Quay, Heinrich Holtzmüller & Alfred Jarry THE BROTHERS QUAY https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/the-brothers-quay-heinrich-holtzmuller-alfred-jarry-the-brothers-quay/ Mon, 05 May 2025 09:56:03 +0000 https://atlaspress.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=405 This issue of the Journal is dedicated to the film-makers The Brothers Quay, and explores their works through certain of their more peripheral interests, namely calligraphy and marionettes. Following a series of photographs of Atelier Koninck, the film studio which they are leaving after three decades, the principal text in this issue is a reprise — expanded, embellished, and with its specifically pataphysical aspects disocculted — of the Quays’ interview with a sixteenth-century calligrapher, Heinrich Holtzmüller. (An earlier version of this text appeared in the Moma New York catalogue of their retrospective exhibition in 2012-13.) Here the interview is followed by what is probably the first publication of Holtzmüller’s only book, Liber Perutilis, a rather unusual manual of calligraphy dating from 1553 (and printed from the only known copy of it). A final section picks up the connections between Alfred Jarry’s and the Quays’ shared enthusiasm for marionettes, and especially for the Théâtre de Toone in Brussels. Jarry’s extant writings on marionettes are translated for the first time, including a lecture given in Brussels containing extracts from plays by Roswitha, Grabbe, Franc-Nohain, Ranson and Jarry himself. With a Disquisition on The Exterminating Angel by Gilles Firmin tipped in. The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, Journal 21, Clinamen 147, 444 numbered copies. 2020, ISBN: 978-1-913407-01-8, 144pp, paperbound, profusely illustrated in colour throughout.]]> This issue of the Journal is dedicated to the film-makers The Brothers Quay, and explores their works through certain of their more peripheral interests, namely calligraphy and marionettes. Following a series of photographs of Atelier Koninck, the film studio which they are leaving after three decades, the principal text in this issue is a reprise — expanded, embellished, and with its specifically pataphysical aspects disocculted — of the Quays’ interview with a sixteenth-century calligrapher, Heinrich Holtzmüller. (An earlier version of this text appeared in the Moma New York catalogue of their retrospective exhibition in 2012-13.) Here the interview is followed by what is probably the first publication of Holtzmüller’s only book, Liber Perutilis, a rather unusual manual of calligraphy dating from 1553 (and printed from the only known copy of it). A final section picks up the connections between Alfred Jarry’s and the Quays’ shared enthusiasm for marionettes, and especially for the Théâtre de Toone in Brussels. Jarry’s extant writings on marionettes are translated for the first time, including a lecture given in Brussels containing extracts from plays by Roswitha, Grabbe, Franc-Nohain, Ranson and Jarry himself. With a Disquisition on The Exterminating Angel by Gilles Firmin tipped in. The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, Journal 21, Clinamen 147, 444 numbered copies. 2020, ISBN: 978-1-913407-01-8, 144pp, paperbound, profusely illustrated in colour throughout.]]> Paul Gayot & Thieri Foulc 101 WORDS OF PATAPHYSICS https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/paul-gayot-thieri-foulc-101-words-of-pataphysics/ Mon, 05 May 2025 09:53:01 +0000 https://atlaspress.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=403 This is the essential book about the Collège de ’Pataphysique, assembled by two of its most venerable Proveditors. On 1 Décervelage 86 EP, the Vice-Curator-Founder of the Collège gave his Inaugural Harangue to members, and his speech included these observations: “Pataphysically one can say that all is for the best in the most pataphysical of all possible worlds. There can never be more ’Pataphysics in This World than there already is, because that is all there is. The World itself is the true Collège de ’Pataphysique.” The first of the Statutes of the Collège informs us that its statutes are pataphysical, and the Collège too therefore: both World and Collège are imaginary solutions. This Journal constitutes a summation of this most venerable institution — its persons, offices, administration, ideas, foibles and sociability. And thus the World is introduced to its Collège but only a small minority “by vocation” will pay the slightest attention — and all is indeed for the best. The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, Journal 18/19, Gueules 146, 333 numbered copies. 2019, ISBN: 978-0-9936058-5-7, 128pp, paperbound, illustrated in b+w.]]> This is the essential book about the Collège de ’Pataphysique, assembled by two of its most venerable Proveditors. On 1 Décervelage 86 EP, the Vice-Curator-Founder of the Collège gave his Inaugural Harangue to members, and his speech included these observations: “Pataphysically one can say that all is for the best in the most pataphysical of all possible worlds. There can never be more ’Pataphysics in This World than there already is, because that is all there is. The World itself is the true Collège de ’Pataphysique.” The first of the Statutes of the Collège informs us that its statutes are pataphysical, and the Collège too therefore: both World and Collège are imaginary solutions. This Journal constitutes a summation of this most venerable institution — its persons, offices, administration, ideas, foibles and sociability. And thus the World is introduced to its Collège but only a small minority “by vocation” will pay the slightest attention — and all is indeed for the best. The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, Journal 18/19, Gueules 146, 333 numbered copies. 2019, ISBN: 978-0-9936058-5-7, 128pp, paperbound, illustrated in b+w.]]> Magnus Irvin, Brian Reffin Smith, Jean Ferry & Alastair Brotchie THE PAINTING MACHINE AND ITS REGENT https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/magnus-irvin-brian-reffin-smith-jean-ferry-alastair-brotchie-the-painting-machine-and-its-regent/ Mon, 05 May 2025 09:51:14 +0000 https://atlaspress.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=401 This issue is divided into two parts. The first considers the Painting Machine in the context of both the Collège de ’Pataphysique and the Great External. The second celebrates the recent ascension to one of the Collège’s fundamental chairs: the Regency of Practical Work with the Painting Machine, by Magnus Irvin, the Secretary of Manifestations of the London Institute of ’Pataphysics. This section takes the form of a first sketch of the history of the Institute that has been edited to foreground Irvin’s role within it and his contributions to the Science in this context and in others, namely with regard to his other activities and personae. In passing, an inspiring and little-known story of heroic entrepreneurship is revealed. The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, Journal 17, Phalle 145, texts by Jean Ferry, Alfred Jarry, Raymond Roussel, Brian Reffin Smith and the Secretariat of Issuance, 344 numbered copies.   2019, ISBN: 978-0-9931487-6-7, 138pp, paperbound, illustrations in colour and b+w.]]> This issue is divided into two parts. The first considers the Painting Machine in the context of both the Collège de ’Pataphysique and the Great External. The second celebrates the recent ascension to one of the Collège’s fundamental chairs: the Regency of Practical Work with the Painting Machine, by Magnus Irvin, the Secretary of Manifestations of the London Institute of ’Pataphysics. This section takes the form of a first sketch of the history of the Institute that has been edited to foreground Irvin’s role within it and his contributions to the Science in this context and in others, namely with regard to his other activities and personae. In passing, an inspiring and little-known story of heroic entrepreneurship is revealed. The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, Journal 17, Phalle 145, texts by Jean Ferry, Alfred Jarry, Raymond Roussel, Brian Reffin Smith and the Secretariat of Issuance, 344 numbered copies.   2019, ISBN: 978-0-9931487-6-7, 138pp, paperbound, illustrations in colour and b+w.]]> Alfred Jarry, Thieri Foulc, Alastair Brotchie & Frater Plausible THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE PASSION: THE NAILS & THE BICYCLE https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/alfred-jarry-thieri-foulc-alastair-brotchie-frater-plausible-the-instruments-of-the-passion-the-nails-the-bicycle/ Mon, 05 May 2025 09:46:51 +0000 https://atlaspress.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=399 Jarry’s text on “how many nails were employed in the Crucifixion” is notorious, but never before translated. A certain amount of erudition is required to do so, and the Regent of Exegesis of the Collége de ’Pataphysique has made this possible. So this journal, profoundly theological, considers the Instruments of the Passion from a pataphysical point of view. The Nails play an important role, as convention dictates, but the bicycle is perhaps not so familiar. Their conjunction (metaphorically, the crown of thorns) facilitates an exploration of the pataphysics of authenticity and belief. Delightful conclusions are reached. An appendix of monopedal creatures, or potentially so, is shown to be not entirely irrelevant. One of the most precise and coherent issues of the Journal all in all, in which the presence of Alfred Jarry is more evident than is usual. The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, Journal 20, Phalle 146, 333 numbered copies. 2019, ISBN: 978-0-9931487-9-8, 84pp, paperbound, illustrated in b+w and colour.]]> Jarry’s text on “how many nails were employed in the Crucifixion” is notorious, but never before translated. A certain amount of erudition is required to do so, and the Regent of Exegesis of the Collége de ’Pataphysique has made this possible. So this journal, profoundly theological, considers the Instruments of the Passion from a pataphysical point of view. The Nails play an important role, as convention dictates, but the bicycle is perhaps not so familiar. Their conjunction (metaphorically, the crown of thorns) facilitates an exploration of the pataphysics of authenticity and belief. Delightful conclusions are reached. An appendix of monopedal creatures, or potentially so, is shown to be not entirely irrelevant. One of the most precise and coherent issues of the Journal all in all, in which the presence of Alfred Jarry is more evident than is usual. The London Institute of ’Pataphysics, Journal 20, Phalle 146, 333 numbered copies. 2019, ISBN: 978-0-9931487-9-8, 84pp, paperbound, illustrated in b+w and colour.]]> Unica Zürn THE HOUSE OF ILLNESSES https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/unica-zurn-the-house-of-illnesses/ Mon, 05 May 2025 09:44:40 +0000 https://atlaspress.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=397 A complete facsimile of the manuscript and illustrations, interleaved with an English translation by Malcolm Green. It is 25 years since Atlas Press first published Unica Zürn’s autobiographical account of the commencement of her long history of mental crises (The Man of Jasmine, soon to be republished). In the meantime she has come to be recognised as a great artist at least the equal of her partner, the Surrealist Hans Bellmer. Zürn’s initial mental collapse was initiated when she encountered “the Man of Jasmine” in the real world in the person of the writer Henri Michaux. Her meeting with him plunged her into a world of hallucination in which visions of her desires, anxieties and events from her unresolved past overwhelmed her present life. “The House of Illnesses” was the first of her notebooks to confront this oncoming catastrophe which, paradoxically, she in part welcomed, since it gave her access to an inner existence essential to her artistic output. In 1970 she committed suicide by throwing herself from the sixth-floor apartment that she shared with Bellmer. Companion volume: THE MAN OF JASMINE. 2019, ISBN: 978-1-913407-00-1, 96pp, hardback , colour illustrations throughout.]]> A complete facsimile of the manuscript and illustrations, interleaved with an English translation by Malcolm Green. It is 25 years since Atlas Press first published Unica Zürn’s autobiographical account of the commencement of her long history of mental crises (The Man of Jasmine, soon to be republished). In the meantime she has come to be recognised as a great artist at least the equal of her partner, the Surrealist Hans Bellmer. Zürn’s initial mental collapse was initiated when she encountered “the Man of Jasmine” in the real world in the person of the writer Henri Michaux. Her meeting with him plunged her into a world of hallucination in which visions of her desires, anxieties and events from her unresolved past overwhelmed her present life. “The House of Illnesses” was the first of her notebooks to confront this oncoming catastrophe which, paradoxically, she in part welcomed, since it gave her access to an inner existence essential to her artistic output. In 1970 she committed suicide by throwing herself from the sixth-floor apartment that she shared with Bellmer. Companion volume: THE MAN OF JASMINE. 2019, ISBN: 978-1-913407-00-1, 96pp, hardback , colour illustrations throughout.]]> Giorgio Manganelli TO THOSE GODS BEYOND https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/giorgio-manganelli-to-those-gods-beyond/ Mon, 05 May 2025 09:42:22 +0000 https://atlaspress.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=395 Translated and introduced by John Walker, afterword by Alastair Brotchie. Foreword by Italo Calvino, translated by Martin McLaughlin. In Manganelli’s innumerable universes, beyond the gods we know or suspect we know is an endless array of other gods. Everything that is seemingly finite or known in our world becomes infinite and unknown. We die, we find ourselves among the other dead, and we die again, only to find ourselves somewhere even more unknown and with death still awaiting. We are both monarch and victim in a gothic simulation illuminated by sombre flashes of sardonic rhetoric that reveal only an astounding desolate wreck. Something of this landscape’s significance can be inferred from Manganelli’s manifesto “Literature as Deception” (1967), which elucidates the author’s notions of the literary “object”, whose devious nature is embodied and mirrored in the elaborate “lies” he constructs here in a style even more lush than the English Romantics he so admired. Manganelli’s paradoxically optimistic fatalism is founded upon a defiance of all the gods — in the knowledge that when they too perish, we are fated to invent others to replace them. Giorgio Manganelli (1922-1990) is a writer almost unknown in English. He was a central member, with the likes of Eco and Sanguineti, of the Italian avant-garde Gruppo 63, named after its date of formation, and one of the editors of its collective publications. Ever the awkward member of this squad, his writing was greatly admired by Calvino. Manganelli’s theoretical and creative works are deeply intertwined and never more so than with his notorious manifesto (also translated here), which, so it seems, underpins the entire book in a wholly unexpected and original way. Atlas Anti-classic 24.   2019, ISBN: 978-1-900565-81-3, 192pp, hardback with decorated endpapers.]]> Translated and introduced by John Walker, afterword by Alastair Brotchie. Foreword by Italo Calvino, translated by Martin McLaughlin. In Manganelli’s innumerable universes, beyond the gods we know or suspect we know is an endless array of other gods. Everything that is seemingly finite or known in our world becomes infinite and unknown. We die, we find ourselves among the other dead, and we die again, only to find ourselves somewhere even more unknown and with death still awaiting. We are both monarch and victim in a gothic simulation illuminated by sombre flashes of sardonic rhetoric that reveal only an astounding desolate wreck. Something of this landscape’s significance can be inferred from Manganelli’s manifesto “Literature as Deception” (1967), which elucidates the author’s notions of the literary “object”, whose devious nature is embodied and mirrored in the elaborate “lies” he constructs here in a style even more lush than the English Romantics he so admired. Manganelli’s paradoxically optimistic fatalism is founded upon a defiance of all the gods — in the knowledge that when they too perish, we are fated to invent others to replace them. Giorgio Manganelli (1922-1990) is a writer almost unknown in English. He was a central member, with the likes of Eco and Sanguineti, of the Italian avant-garde Gruppo 63, named after its date of formation, and one of the editors of its collective publications. Ever the awkward member of this squad, his writing was greatly admired by Calvino. Manganelli’s theoretical and creative works are deeply intertwined and never more so than with his notorious manifesto (also translated here), which, so it seems, underpins the entire book in a wholly unexpected and original way. Atlas Anti-classic 24.   2019, ISBN: 978-1-900565-81-3, 192pp, hardback with decorated endpapers.]]> Roland Topor HEAD-TO-TOE PORTRAIT OF SUZANNE https://atlaspress.co.uk/product/roland-topor-head-to-toe-portrait-of-suzanne/ Mon, 05 May 2025 09:40:04 +0000 https://atlaspress.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=393 Illustrated by Roland Topor. Translated and introduced by Andrew Hodgson. The works of the French author and artist Roland Topor, who died 20 years ago, are currently undergoing a major reassessment in his homeland. Major exhibitions have been mounted and all his books are being brought back into print. This is the first of them to be translated into English for some 50 years, and more will certainly follow. Topor was something of an all-round maverick, known for his paintings and drawings as much as for his novels (The Tenant was filmed by Polanski), plays and short stories. He was also a film-maker, actor and the co-founder, with Arrabal and Jodorowsky, of the Panic movement, whose violently orgiastic performances provoked widespread condemnation. Topor’s works are dominated by a sense of irrational everyday menace that could be interpreted as humour, but a form of humour pushed deep into discomfort, almost to the point of total horror. The reader slowly becomes aware that, alongside preoccupations that some might think morbid, all is being orchestrated by a distinctively optimistic sensibility. From the collision of these factors, rooted in the author’s experiences and his irrepressible personality, come works increasingly seen as unique in European art and writing of the late 20th century. The present text is perhaps a fable, perhaps a love story of enormous tenderness, or it may be a sequence of ever more sinister events that culminate in horror and atrocity. It all depends on your point of view. The central event in this narrative cannot be revealed here, but its sheer implausible reality is utterly convincing and the effect is unforgettable. Atlas Eclectics & Heteroclites 19. 2018, ISBN: 978-0-9931487-5-0, 86pp, paperback.]]> Illustrated by Roland Topor. Translated and introduced by Andrew Hodgson. The works of the French author and artist Roland Topor, who died 20 years ago, are currently undergoing a major reassessment in his homeland. Major exhibitions have been mounted and all his books are being brought back into print. This is the first of them to be translated into English for some 50 years, and more will certainly follow. Topor was something of an all-round maverick, known for his paintings and drawings as much as for his novels (The Tenant was filmed by Polanski), plays and short stories. He was also a film-maker, actor and the co-founder, with Arrabal and Jodorowsky, of the Panic movement, whose violently orgiastic performances provoked widespread condemnation. Topor’s works are dominated by a sense of irrational everyday menace that could be interpreted as humour, but a form of humour pushed deep into discomfort, almost to the point of total horror. The reader slowly becomes aware that, alongside preoccupations that some might think morbid, all is being orchestrated by a distinctively optimistic sensibility. From the collision of these factors, rooted in the author’s experiences and his irrepressible personality, come works increasingly seen as unique in European art and writing of the late 20th century. The present text is perhaps a fable, perhaps a love story of enormous tenderness, or it may be a sequence of ever more sinister events that culminate in horror and atrocity. It all depends on your point of view. The central event in this narrative cannot be revealed here, but its sheer implausible reality is utterly convincing and the effect is unforgettable. Atlas Eclectics & Heteroclites 19. 2018, ISBN: 978-0-9931487-5-0, 86pp, paperback.]]>