despalles overcomes the distance that still exists between the German and French language areas. Thus the artist's books of the edition are mostly conceived from the outset as bilingual, French and German, or even trilingual. As a rule, they appear as first publications, always with unpublished translations. In them, artists and poets from different aesthetic categories meet.
Ernesto Cardenal /
Elbio Mazet
Los Hijos del bosque de las palabras almas
Ernesto Cardenal describes through his poems customs and myths from an ancien paraguayan virgin forest tribe.
They considered themself connected to the super natural through the human language, their highest property.
Elbio Mazet, Johannes Strugalla
Ernesto Cardenal, "Los hijos del bosque de las palabras almas"
(The children out of the word soul woods)
Text in a first publication by Ernesto Cardenal. Trilingual: Spanish, French, German.
Original bicolored woodcut by Elbio Mazet, book design and handset typography by Johannes Strugalla.
40 pages, in parts as fold-out ages, 33,5 × 22 cm.
180 copies, numbered and signed by the author and the artists.
Paris / Mainz, 1986.
