Pocket Detonations are small, collectible books that emerge alongside the larger translation and archival work at Bacchus Editions. Each volume follows a single thread through the life of a remarkable individual, not in search of a complete biography, but in pursuit of the idea, instinct, image, or recurring question that first made us stop and pay attention.
The first Pocket Detonation could only have belonged to Zo d'Axa.
Journalist, vagabond, editor, escape artist, and one of the most elusive figures in French individualist anarchism, Zo possessed an uncanny habit. Again and again, whenever walls appeared, he somehow managed to locate the exit.
This little book follows that habit.
Illustrated throughout with original collage work assembled from rare archival materials, created by rascals, along with the only surviving photographs of Zo d'Axa's wife, generously entrusted to Bacchus Editions by Béatrice Arnac, Zo's granddaughter.
Compact enough for a pocket, yet designed to linger much longer than an afternoon, ZO D'AXA AND THE SECRET DOOR is an invitation into one of the most delightfully ungovernable lives of the fin de siècle, and the first volume in a growing series devoted to the figures, ideas, and affinities that continue to accompany Bacchus Editions.
Pocket Detonations are small, collectible books that emerge alongside the larger translation and archival work at Bacchus Editions. Each volume follows a single thread through the life of a remarkable individual, not in search of a complete biography, but in pursuit of the idea, instinct, image, or recurring question that first made us stop and pay attention.
The first Pocket Detonation could only have belonged to Zo d'Axa.
Journalist, vagabond, editor, escape artist, and one of the most elusive figures in French individualist anarchism, Zo possessed an uncanny habit. Again and again, whenever walls appeared, he somehow managed to locate the exit.
This little book follows that habit.
Illustrated throughout with original collage work assembled from rare archival materials, created by rascals, along with the only surviving photographs of Zo d'Axa's wife, generously entrusted to Bacchus Editions by Béatrice Arnac, Zo's granddaughter.
Compact enough for a pocket, yet designed to linger much longer than an afternoon, ZO D'AXA AND THE SECRET DOOR is an invitation into one of the most delightfully ungovernable lives of the fin de siècle, and the first volume in a growing series devoted to the figures, ideas, and affinities that continue to accompany Bacchus Editions.
