Books published by Red Egg Publishing

Malcolm de Chazal (Sens Magique):Tout au long de sa vie et de son œuvre, Malcolm de Chazal fut un poète et un artiste alchimique et transcendant. Inutile de dire que le mystère qui l'entoure est en grande partie lié à son écriture. Mais son histoire ne s'arrête pas là.Sa relation avec le mouvement surréaliste et son ésotérisme jouent également un rôle. Il s'est même imposé une existence recluse et méditationnelle qui lui a permis de voir et d'expérimenter la réalité différemment, telle qu'elle est réellement. Ainsi, de son propre aveu, cette expérience l'a guidé vers une approche complètement unique dans sa façon d'écrire.Chacune de ces différentes facettes nous aide à mieux comprendre l'homme derrière son art et son écriture. Mais c'est sans doute son histoire familiale intrigante et ses liens avec l'alchimie qui nous en donne une vision plus précise.Malcolm de Chazal est né en 1902 à l'île Maurice. Il était le treizième et dernier enfant. Sa famille était issue d'une longue lignée d'aristocrate français qui possédait des terres en Auvergne et dans le Loiret. Son ancêtre le Comte François de Chazal de la Genesté s'était installé sur l'île Maurice en 1763, pendant le siècle des Lumières. François était un Rose-Croix qui, dit-on, fabriquait de l'or alchimique à volonté et, grâce à ses dons de voyance, avait prédit tous les événements qui devaient se dérouler pendant la Révolution française.Dans une lettre du pasteur René Agnel à André Breton en 1949, Malcolm de Chazal est décrit comme un «poète, explorateur en cosmologie et en ethnologie, expert en ésotérisme, hétérodoxe, théologien et militant indépendant qui le restera jusqu'à son dernier souffle. Un individu tourmenté par la quête d'une spiritualité véritablement libérée et purifiée, à l'instar de Rimbaud, «l'homme aux semelles de vent» à la recherche de la vie transformée…Malcolm de Chazal et André Breton partageaient une amitié de longue date; en effet, celui-ci figurait sur la liste des surréalistes de Breton. Il était également très apprécié de Georges Braque qui le premier lui suggéra de se lancer dans la peinture, ainsi que de Jean Dubuffet, fondateur de l'Art Brut. Malgré toutes ces recommandations, de Chazal ne souhaitait cependant pas être qualifié uniquement de surréaliste... (Jean Bonnin)

Poetry as a beautiful and mysterious painting, where the stars and the moon hang happily on their invisible strings that cling onto the ceiling of the infinite universe. Autumn encourages reflection, as does a glass of wine, as does the half-caught sound of a distant tune... A beautiful collection.

Jean Bonnin is a highly respected Welsh Surrealist. For over thirty years he has been creating avant-garde music and surrealist and dada texts and manifestos. Here, for the first time, is a collection of some of his artistic works... He has hung on many of the great walls over the years, alongside many of the great surrealists, such as Magritte and Man Ray. And yet, he is very proud of the fact that he has managed to maintain his internationally acclaimed anonymity... He is unique, full of fun and subversion - he is a Welsh Surrealist.

This is one of the most fascinating books you are likely to encounter concerning the Nuremberg Trials. A personal account by an internationally respected historian who attended the Nuremberg Trials as a young French observing lawyer... Georges Bonnin recounts the Trials and how he was sitting only a couple of metres away from Goering, for example; he tells us of the conversations and intrigue in the corridors, about the restaurants and parties attended, and the gossip and the final judgements. In addition to this he tells us of his imprisonment by the Nazis in Toulouse towards the end of the war, and his experiences as a prisoner in occupied France. As both a historian and a lawyer Georges Bonnin provides us with an invaluable account of these times by someone who was there.

Wondrous poems that take us on a journey from the tree- lined streets of Paris, via moonlit bays and windy sea-splashed beaches to twenty-first century existential ennui. Jean Bonnin's Poetry is an amalgamation of the symbolist, romantic and Celtic poetic traditions; being based, as he is, 10 miles from where Dylan Thomas lived & wrote.

Malcolm de ChazalMalcolm de Chazal (1902-1981) - was born in Mauritius to French parents... To begin with he was a writer and a poet. His most notable books being: Sens Plastique and Sens Magique... W.H. Auden said of him that he was "...the most original and interesting French writer to emerge since the war." And André Breton hailed him as a surrealist.In 1950, at the suggestion of Georges Braque, he began to paint... Better known in the French-speaking world - as an influential artist who stands alone in both his approach and his style - he is now becoming appreciated in the English-speaking world as a free-thinker who is deserving of his place in art history. He was a surrealist, a mystic and an alchemist... Occasionally one glimpses similarities between his work and Van Gogh's, Matisse's and Derain's. He has been described as a post-modernist expressionist. Or, possibly he could be defined as a post-Fauvist. If that is what he was, then he was the essence of what that approach was supposed to embody in its purest form: an animalistic and feral interpretation of the world through bold colours, harnessing the emotions whilst rejecting a rigid representational approach to art. But ultimately, and this is what is exciting about Chazal, he is unlike any other artist... or writer.Magical Sense - is the translation by the author and poet Jean Bonnin of Sense Magique. Seven hundred and fifty-five aphorisms that look at nature, light, colour and sensuality in a unique way. This is one of Malcolm de Chazal's most significant works that should be appreciated for its beauty, originality and quirky otherworldliness. A unique man whose painting and writing is finally beginning to get the appreciation it deserves.

If Marcel Duchamp, Friedrich Nietzsche and Le Corbusier collaborated on a projectThe Cubist's House would be the result.A cross between The Prisoner and Tales of the Unexpected things aren't always quite how they appear. When English Literature lecturer and minor author Jethro Carmichaelreturns home to find his apartment ransacked and his partner gone missing he decides it's all getting too much for him and it's time for a change of scenery. Renney van der Stratten is an American pretending to be Dutch... His bigoted Bostonian mother, and his whisky-swilling father aren't helping his state of mind. Nor is the fact that his antique dealership appears to be going down the pan. Jethro takes a year's sabbatical and retreats to an unremarkable Adriatic island... And on discovering revolutionary 60s graffiti and extraordinary oil paintings in his basement, and having the feeling someone is out to kill him, Renney also decides to retreat to an unremarkable Adriatic island.But it is only when their paths cross that things begin to get really strange... Learning about the house designed by a Cubist architect; meeting the German woman in a cove; and overhearing the safari suit-wearing eccentric recounting stories about the Soviet Union; all result in Jethro beginning to write again. To write what could turn out to be his opus...

Being and Somethingness is a book of poems, aphorisms, texts and insights that represent a tangential way to see life afresh. It is also a quasi-mystical tome which presents an approach to seeing the universe and seeking enlightenment. It is illustrated. It is both metaphysical and existentialist, and in tandem with potentially life-changing wisdoms it is also humorous and endearing... If only for its title that is clearly aping Sartre's classic philosophical work - there is the potential for it to become a Cult and Student classic...