Tempest
& Gayle

DEPUIS 2019

PLAYING GOD

»It takes a special kind of villain, a rare monster, to want to save the world—to demand justice for his people. To stop him: to save the world from his vision of a just world, will I have to become a monster too?«

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NEVER HUMAN

Never Human interrogates the American Dream of the trampled, in cost and consequence. An exigent self-critique of the colonialistic American novel by the American novel, Serret confronts indigenous and immigrant anomie, the coloniality of voice, and the effacement of identity within the post–Cold War milieu.

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grendel wept

Defrocked archæologist Dr Julian Corbin seeks amid dead things for signs of the unspeakable Other. Alien dreams and waking visions of lost civilisations haunt him, his steps dogged by a serial killer, leaving grisly murals in their wake. But as the death toll grows, Julian doesn't know if he is hunted or led, dreaming or awake, innocent or stained with blood...Grendel Wept leaps forth from a literary tradition started by the surreal Hermeticsim of Poe and Machen; the ill-starred Gothic of Byron, the Shelleys; and the twilit fin de siècle of Wilde and Maldoror. It is the struggle of Man and the cosmic Other, juxtaposed with Man’s struggle against himself, first spelled out in the earliest oral myths of Titanian cosmology, now given novel form.

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die the villain

2011. Two years before Snowden.Hiding in plain sight as a consultant in the gig economy, Finn trades in information. He returned from Japan last year, a 23-year-old Darknet impresario with Yakuza ties, ink, and an MBA from a prominent university.alias: APHID GRINFinn hooks up with Chloë, a fashionable grad-school dropout, uptown. She draws him into a social scene he's only glimpsed from the college-bar sidelines, rubbing elbows with the City's élite; but when a foiled heist leaves him scrambling for cover, he loses himself within his rising celebrity as “Gigi,” young society's latest It-girl, unsure of the way back... or a way out.C. P. Serret presents a roman noir of an individual struggle with alienation, anomie, and authenticity; of cybercrime gone wrong and a roller-coaster crash with the rich kids of Instagram—an off-the-rails carnivalised plunge “ablaze with… espionage, sinister lies, syndicates, and traumatic upheavals” (Willow Greymoor, San Francisco Book Review).

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le projet serret

“This he had proposed in secret to himself, that if he labored without ceasing, without tiring, he might produce something which would at all events be art, which would stand wholly apart from the objects shaped like books, printed with printers’ ink, and called by the name of books that he had read.”
—A. Machen, The Hill of DreamsFounded in 2019, l’lart pour l’art is the uncompromised literary mission of Tempest & Gayle. Erudites are invited to partake, here at the farthest shore from mass-market constraints.« Cet été les roses sont bleues; le bois c’est du verre. La terre drapée dans sa verdure me fait aussi peu d’effet qu’un revenant. C’est vivre et cesser de vivre qui sont des solutions imaginaires. L’existence est ailleurs. »
—A. Breton, Manifestes du Surréalisme