September 24, 2009

Obliques : literary magazine of the 70s


Established by Roger Borderie, the magazine Obliques, published in the 70s and 80s, proposes monographs of first importance on varied themes (Sade, Wagner Kierkegaard, the German Expressionism, The Surrealist woman, the myth of Don Juan, Sartre, Artaud, etc.), which represent the tendencies and literary influences of that time. Michel Camus, chief editor of the magazine from 1976 till 1983, groups together texts of numerous writers and thinkers: Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Butor, etc.
The issues, in deluxe edition, include, for the greater part, original engravings numbered and signed by artists as Jean-Luc Parant, Félix Labisse, Camille Bryen, Fred Deux, etc. To underline : the magnificent serie of photographic prints signed by Henri Maccheroni which is proposed with the issue dedicated to Sade.


Currently, the Librairie Loliée offers a set dedicated to the magazine Obliques and its various publications :

Obliques issues n°1 à 21 :
  • Strindberg. N°1. Paris, Editions Borderie, 1972, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition. One of the 150 copies on Arches paper with a drawing by Jean-Luc Parant signed by Parant and Michel Butor.
  • Genet. N°2. Paris, Éditions Borderie, 1972, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition. One of the 150 copies on Arches paper with an original engraving numbered and signed by Fred Deux.
  • Kafka. N°3. Paris, Éditions Borderie, 1973, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition.One of the 99 copies on Arches paper (without the announced engraving which was not printed).
  • Don Juan. N°4-5. Paris, Éditions Borderie, 1978, in-4, two volumes bounded in one. Third edition on vellum paper.
  • L’Expressionnisme Allemand. N°6-7. Paris, Éditions Borderie, 1976, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition. One of the 99 copies on Arches paper (without the announced lithograph which was not printed).
  • Boris Vian de A à Z. N°8-9. Paris, Éditions Borderie, 1976, in-4, bicolore cover. First edition. One of the 124 copies on Arches paper with an original lithograph numbered and signed by Félix Labisse.
  • Sade. N°10-11. Paris, Éditions Borderie, 1977, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition. One of the 99 copies on Popset Rosemary with a serie of 9 photographies by Henri Maccheroni.
  • Artaud. N°12-13. Paris, Éditions Borderie, 1976, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition. One of 83 copies on Ingres M.B.M. Arches Chamois paper with an engraving numbered and signed by Camille Bryen and an engraving signed by José Quiroga.
  • La Femme Surréaliste. N°14-15. Paris, Éditions Borderie, 1977, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition. One of the 99 copies on Arches paper with an engraving numbered and signed by Léonor Fini, a serigraphy numbered and signed by Titi and Jean-Luc Parant, and an audio tape with on face 1 a text read by Titi and Jean-Luc Parant and on face 2 sur a radiophonic montage ont the Surrealist woman made by Jean Couturier.
  • Robbe-Grillet. N°16-17. Paris, Éditions Borderie, 1977, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition. One of the 83 copies on Arches paper with a lithograph in colors by Pierre Maltais and an engraving by Grégory Masurovky, numbered and signed by the artists.
  • Sartre. N°18-19. Nyons, Éditions Borderie, 1981, in-4, two voluems bounded in one. One of the 99 copies on Arches paper with a lithograph "logoramme" by Christian Dotremont, numbered and signed by the artist. et signé par l’artiste.
  • Brecht. N°20-21. Paris, Éditions Borderie, 1979, in-4, broché, illustrated cover. First edition. One of the 99 copies on Arches paper.
Obliques, special issues :
  • Bellmer. Numéro spécial. Nyons, Éditions Borderie, 1975, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition. One 150 copies on Lana paper with an original engraving by Hans Bellmer.
  • Kierkegaard. Numéro spécial. Nyons, Éditions Borderie, 1975, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition. One of the 33 copies on Arches paper.
  • Butor - Masurovsky. Numéro spécial. Nyons, Éditions Borderie, 1976, in-4, illustrated cover. Edition on vellum paper with an "engraving-manuscript composigned by Michel Butor and Grégory Masurovsky.
  • Vian (Boris). Cantilène en gelée. Numéro spécial. Nyons, Éditions Borderie, 1978, in-4. Reprint of poems first edited in manuscript form to 200 copies. Copy on arches paper with an engraving numbered and signed by Alanore.
  • Lossowski (Pierre) - Zucca (Pierre). Roberte au cinéma. Numéro spécial. Nyons, Éditions Borderie, 1978, in-4, publisher's binding. First edition on vellum paper.
  • Wagner. Numéro spécial. Nyons, Éditions Borderie, 1979, in-4, illustrated cover. First edition. One of the 99 copies on Arches paper.
  • Butor (Michel) - Valey (Michel). Don Juan dans la Manche. Pour Michel Sicard. Numéro Spécial. S.l., Obliques, 1975, in-8, illustrated cover. First edition signed by Michel Butor, Michel Valey et Michel Sicard.
  • Personimages. Numéro Spécial. S.l., Obliques, 1977, in-8, broché, illustrated cover. Issue published after the exhibition of art work made by students of a work reinsertion center, under the direction of Jean Révol.
  • Lulu. Numéro Spécial. S.l., Obliques, 1979, in-8, illustrated cover. First edition.
Outside the magazine Obliques :
  • Les Cahiers Obliques. Revue trimestrielle. N°1 et N°2. Nyons, Éditions Borderie, 1980, in-8, illustrated covers. First editions of those notebooks dovoted to Bellmer and Sartre, and giving a light version of the Obliques magazine which was long to prepare.
  • [Parant(Jean-Luc)]. Le Bout des Bordes. S.d., Éditions Borderie, 1980, in-4, publisher's binding.