Louis Armand is a Prague-based writer, whose theoretical & critical writings have been widely published in journals such as ctheory, triquarterly & culture machine. His recent books include Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture; and Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other.
Also among the most prolific and widely received poets of his generation, Louis Armand’s work has been described by Miroslav Holub as luminous with verbal innovation and critical insight. As the editor firstly of the Prague Revue and later of the PLR (Prague Literary Review) – Armand has participated in, and often presided over, many of the literary transformations and reformations of the last decade in central Europe. At the same time, Armand’s work has remained strongly internationalist, eschewing the temptations of literary nationalism His latest volume, Malice in Underland, confirms Armand’s standing as a major figure of the Prague renaissance and the post-fin-de-siècle of English-language poetry internationally. |
