Bonjour, posting a bit of this here as well so nobody misses it.. Over at Bacchus Editions, several larger projectsare beginning to update, and rather than duplicate everything
across sites, I’ll simply point interested wanderers toward the new home…
Readers of Distinctively Dionysian have encountered Zo d’Axa wandering through its pages from time to time, et many will know him through quotations, scattered articles, or the few translations available in English. Yet these fragments reveal only a small portion of the much larger world surrounding him: the writings, adventures, scandals, newspapers, controversies, and theatrical troublemaking that stretched across decades of restless activity.
One of the largest undertakings presently underway involves the complete recovery and translation of Zo d’Axa’s complete writings, alongside the first English edition of Béatrice Arnac’s extraordinary portrait of her grandfather. This project carries a certain personal affection for me as well, having had the pleasure of spending time with Béatrice in Périgord during her later years before her passing in 2020. What began as a translation and recovery project back then eventually widened into several related undertakings, nourished both by my time with Béatrice and by the enthusiasm of others involved in Bacchus Editions, including:
Zo d’Axa, The Complete Writings:
Journalism, Vagabondage, Revolt, & Theatrical Insurrection
Intimate Shadows:
Béatrice Arnac on Zo d’Axa ~ A Rare Familial Portrait of the Fin-de-Siècle Vagabond
The Criminal Grace of Dancing:The Performing Body Through Nietzsche, Mallarmé, Artaud, and Genet
(featuring Isadora Duncan, Valeska Gert, Loïe Fuller, Béatrice Arnac, and Lavinia Schulz)
Rather than repost the full announcement here, you can read the full update here:
https://bacchuseditions.net/news
The translations section may be found here:
https://bacchuseditions.net/offerings#translations
The dedicated Zo d’Axa / Béatrice Arnac project pages may be found here:
https://bacchuseditions.net/zo-daxa
As promised, this little Noblogs page remains and will continue receiving occasional updates as well.
Avec amitié et quelques méfaits,
xo, Fíona
