"The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc. Above the level of a railway guide, no book is quite free from aesthetic considerations."
(Why I Write, George Orwell)
We begin a new series of short books, pamphlets for quick reading and dissemination. They will always be reflective works, possibly polemical - essays, reviews, reflections and other forms of creation more or less distant from the narrative. With a simpler, handmade finish, the Raphus Press pamphlets approach some ancient traditions – the material distributed on the street, passed by hand and hand and designed to serve the quick diffusion of a certain idea.
So, this material will be printed in very small print runs and will not be marketed: Raphus Pamphlet Series books will be offered as a gift to our customers who make purchases on this website. For our future editions of chapbooks, there will be other pamphlets.
So, this material will be printed in very small print runs and will not be marketed: Raphus Pamphlet Series books will be offered as a gift to our customers who make purchases on this website. For our future editions of chapbooks, there will be other pamphlets.
The Sacred Abysmal Perspective (An essay on The Aesthete Hagiographer by Derek John)
The first one in the new series, The Sacred Abysmal Perspective (An essay on The Aesthete Hagiographer by Derek John) is an essay, perhaps controversial, with some meditations on the multiple incarnations of the void, especially those embodied in Derek John's brilliant novelette. This brief pamphlet will be distributed together with The Mendicant of the Books, while supplies last.
Comments about The Sacred Abysmal Perspective:
"The pamphlet is a wonderful concept - keeping the great opuscule tradition alive and the content and graphics are very fine. There is an austere and apocalyptic flavor to it all, blurring the lines of morality and experience as the Void becomes apparent. The graphics are effectively disturbing in their abstraction."
(Jonathan Wood)
(Jonathan Wood)
There are Only Images of Black Waters (Malombra and Infra-Noir)
An essay on the Romanian avant-garde group Infra-Noir, the film Malombra by Mario Soldati, the will to annihilation (and its universality, as immense or even greater than the conservation instinct).
The Aporia of the Aphorism
The fifteen first copies of Grandville will be accompanied by a brief present: the Raphus Press Pamphlet Series, Volume 03, The Aporia of the Aphorism, by Alcebiades Diniz Miguel. A small volume of important adages about the effulgent act of surviving of our age
The Itinerant follows me
As usual in the series, the fifteen first copies of The Kinsman of Fifty-Three Monarchs will be followed by a gift: the Raphus Press Pamphlet Series, Volume 04. In this last pamphlet (for now), a magnificent, unpublished piece by the great Jonathan Wood: The Itinerant follows me, an elusive plot on travels and dispacements.
The Bestiary 01 - I'll be your mirror, and you'll be my mirror
The first volume in the series will be a creation of Alcebiades Diniz Miguel, I'll be your mirror, and you'll be my mirror. The art of the cover follows below.
The Bestiary 02 - I'll be your mirror, and you'll be my mirror
A brief narrative that seeks its power in visionary reports, from Xul Solar to Damian Murphy: a blind man who seeks in the imagined emanations of cinema a renewed world.