Robert Linhart - The Sugar and the Hunger

Rab-Rab 2023 ISBN 9789526518343 Acqn 34112

Pb 11x17cm 192pp ills £18.50

Widely acclaimed for his engaged social analyses of proletariat and peasant struggles around the
world, Linhart's inquiry into the sugar regions of North-Eastern Brazil, juxtaposes heterogeneous
traits of the impoverished workers' stories into a vivid cinematic montage. Alongside the
translation, the book also includes 'The Third World, Investigations, Social Analysis', an
unpublished interview with Linhart from 1980 made by Jean Copans, giving an insight into the
political and theoretical background of his investigation in Brazil. The afterword by Luiz Renato
Martins, an active Brazilian Marxist art historian and journalist, further contextualises the
importance of Linhart's book. Renato Martins who recently directed a documentary film
Conversations With Robert Linhart discusses The Sugar and the Hunger against the backdrop of
today's world where the practices of expropriation of land and food from peasants and urban
poor, which Linhart examined in 1980 on a laboratory-like scale, have now become common
global practices, endlessly producing legions of uprooted and hungry refugees.

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Iliazd - Zaum for Strangers - Paris 1921
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Pb 11x17cm 80pp col ills £14

Alongside this, the fourth volume also presents Sergei Sigov's essay "Ilya Zdanevich's Onolatric
Mystery" from 1991, where one can read about donkey-themed ethnographic inflections of
Zdanevich's zaum plays. Sigov, who was an internationally active poet, theoretician and publisher
considered Zdanevich's work as pivotal for their dissident Transfuturist movement. In this essay,
Sigov discussed Zdanevich's zaum as a strange amalgam of archaic with contemporary forms.
The first-ever English translation of these writings is presented with an extended introduction and
extensive annotations, as well as with visual contributions by Rea Nikonova, who was a lifelong
collaborator of Sigov, and who theoretically elaborated the concept of transposition, an idea to
socially expand poetic gestures.

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Tenderness Record - The Life of Ilya Zdanevich
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Pb 11x17cm 88pp col ills £16.50

The third volume of the bie bao series presents Igor Terentiev's Tenderness Record, a
hagiography of Ilya Zdanevich published in 1919 in Tbilisi. In this slim book, Terentiev
summarises the plots of Zdanevich's zaum dramas and portrays his artistic achievements as a
product of collective creativity. Alongside this, the third volume also presents a letter from
Terentiev to Zdanevich from 1924. Sent from Leningrad, the letter sheds light onto various zaum
projects at the Phonological Department at the GINKhUK and includes the only surviving script of
Terentiev's zaum drama, Iordano Bruno. The first-ever English translation of his writings is here
presented with an extended introduction and extensive annotations, as well as with a short note
by Giovanna Pagani Cesa, who initially discovered Ternetiev's letter in the Zdanevich Archives.
The texts are further contextualised with commissioned essays by Adam Randelovic, a poet,
translator, and musician from Belgrade, and Ketevan Kinturashvili, a curator, art historian and a
researcher of the Georgian avant-garde from Tbilisi.

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Jairus Banaji - Wanting Something Completely Different
Rab-Rab 2023 ISBN 9780201379624 Acqn 34114
Pb 20x26cm 168pp col ills £22.50

'Wanting Something Completely Different' discusses a range of political figures, themes, directors
and writers in a series of brief, evocative descriptions ('vignettes') aimed at laying out a vision of a
modern, cosmopolitan left that can think creatively about the world we live in. The political figures
include both thinkers and activists from a wide range of backgrounds-from Frantz Fanon and the
Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani to the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the murdered
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

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Bourgeois with a Heart - The Class Suicide of Hjalmar Linder
Rab-Rab 2023 ISBN 9789526518312 Acqn 34115
Pb 12x21cm 64pp col ills £22.50

In 1918 Hjalmar Linder was the richest man in Finland, owning much land and many factories. At
the end of World War I, as Germany convulsed in defeat and revolution, Civil War broke out in
Finland. Linder's brother-in-law General Mannerheim advised him to flee to Sweden. When he
returned after the conflict, he went looking for his workers in the prison camps. He was shocked
by the inhumane conditions they faced, and wrote an article in Hufvudstadsbladet, the main
Finnish newspaper in Swedish, with the title "Nog Med Blodbad!" ("Enough with the Bloodbaths")
on May 25th 1918. He said the White Terror must end because prisoners were dying like flies. As
a result, he was accused of sympathy with Communism, received death threats, and fled abroad.
In 1921 Hjalmar Linder committed suicide, penniless in Marseilles, slashing his wrists. This
edition presents Hjalmar Linder's text, introduced by Minna Henriksson, as well as a series of
correspondences.

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