Des Esseintes Press is a project of the Moscow International University and the Moscow School of New Cinema. The publishing house is named after the protagonist of the novel "À rebours" by Carl-Joris Huysmans.
Des Esseintes populates his castle with the fruits of his morbid imagination and his melancholy. His vast library is assembled according to some internal subjective principle: there is no place for Virgil, but there is a place for Petronius, and The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym was published "in one single copy by Des Esseintes' order on top-grade verger, page by page selected and watermarked with a seagull".
Our library is also collected according to a special principle. We will not describe this principle here, but will limit ourselves to a list of books that have already been published or will be published in the next six months or year:
- Paul Schrader «Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer»
- Christoph Schlingensief «It can't be as good as it is here in heaven!»
- Friedrich Kittler «Philosophies of Literature.»
- Conversations between Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller
- Hugo Friedrich «Dante»
- A book about the fools of the St. Petersburg underground of the 1970s-1990s - Sasha Popov and Dima Timchenko
- Judith Revault d’Allonnes ««Holy Motors» Leos Carax»
- Paul Cronin «Lessons with Kiarostami»
- Carlos Reygadas «Presencia»
- Thomas Maho «Metaphors of Death.»
- Forugh Farrokhzad «Another Birth»
- Hans-Thies Lehmann, «Tragedy and Dramatic Theater.»