Andrew Hsiao, Audrea Lim (eds.): The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad (2010)

A sparkling anthology of revolt and resistance to orthodoxy and repression.

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions of the Middle Ages. These sources were tapped during the Dutch and English revolutions at the outset of the Modern world, and in turn flowed into the French, Haitian, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions. More recently, resistance to war and economic oppression has flared up on battlefields and in public spaces from Beijing and Baghdad to Caracas and Los Angeles.

This anthology, global in scope, presents voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Every age has its iconoclasts, and yet the greatest among them build on the words and actions of their forerunners. The Verso Book of Dissent will become an invaluable resource, reminding today’s citizens that these traditions will never die.

Preface by Tariq Ali
Publisher Verso Books, 2010
ISBN 1844674487, 9781844674480
366 pages

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Asger Jorn, Guy Debord: Fin de Copenhague (1957)

“Fin de Copenhague [Goodbye to Copenhagen] is the first collaboration between Asger Jorn and Guy Debord. The book is credited to Jorn, with Debord listed as “Technical Adviser in Détournement”.

The pages include text in English, French, German, and Danish; illustrations of whisky bottles beer bottles and cigarettes; aeroplanes and ocean going liners; cartoons of well dressed men and pretty girls and various maps of Copenhagen. Each page is covered with a second layer of coloured ink drops and drips, most of which go right to left, emphasising the direction of the book from beginning to end.

The book was published by Jorn’s Edition Bauhaus Imaginiste in May 1957, a few months before this group amalgamated with the Lettrist International to create the Situationists.”

Publisher Edition Bauhaus Imaginiste, May 1957
Printer Permild and Rosengreen, Copenhagen
40 pages
via Maldoror Press

Commentary: Christian Nolle (Virose, 2005), Bart Lans (TU Delft, 2008).

Wikipedia

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See also Mémoires, 1958.

Joris-Karl Huysmans: Against Nature (1884–) [FR, CZ, DE, EN, ES, PL, NO, IT]

“The narrative of this novel concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean Des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. The novel contains many themes that became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic. In doing so, it broke from Naturalism and became the ultimate example of ‘decadent’ literature.” (Wikipedia)

French edition
With illustrations by Auguste Leroux
Publisher A. Ferroud – F. Ferroud, Paris, 1920
219 pages

English edition: Against the Grain
Translated by John Howard
Introduction by Havelock Ellis
Publisher Lieber & Lewis, New York, 1922
331 pages

English edition: Against Nature
Translated by Robert Baldick, 1956
With an Introduction and Notes by Patrick McGuinness
Publisher Penguin Books, 2003
ISBN 9780141906607

À rebours (French, 1884/1920), HTML, IA
Na ruby (Czech, trans. Arnošt Procházka, in Moderní revue, 1896, pages 9-16, 44-53, 69-76, 116-124, 148-152 and 174-183, added on 2015-2-5)
Gegen den Strich (German, trans. Hans Jacob, 1921/1978, added on 2015-2-5)
Against the Grain (English, trans. John Howard, 1922), IA
Al revés (Spanish, trans. Rodrigo Escudero, 1977, 12 MB, added on 2015-2-5)
Na wspak (Polish, trans. Julian Rogoziński, 1977, 40 MB, added on 2015-2-5)
Mot strømmen (Norwegian, trans. Jan Olav Gatland, 1998, requires Norwegian IP)
Against Nature (English, trans. Robert Baldick, 2003, EPUB)
Controcorrente (Italian, 2014, EPUB, added on 2015-2-5)