Louis Armand (writer)

Louis Armand, (born 1972, Sydney) is a writer, visual artist, and critical theorist.

He has published ten novels, including Vampyr (2020), GlassHouse (2018), The Combinations (2016; shortlisted for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize), Cairo (2014; longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award), and Breakfast at Midnight (2012; described by 3:AM's Richard Marshall as "a perfect modern noir").

He has also authored a number of volumes of criticism, including Videology (2015) & The Organ-Grinder's Monkey: Culture after the Avantgarde (2013).

He is the founding editor of VLAK Magazine, and directs the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory at Charles University, Prague.

He is author of five volumes of poetry and a number of chapbooks including: Land Partition (2001), Inexorable Weather (2001), Malice in Underland (2003) and Strange Attractors (2003).

Armand's novels include Clair Obscur (2011); Breakfast at Midnight (2012), critically acclaimed and described by critics as a “twisted, brilliantly savage acid noir”[1] and a “wonderfully executed nod to Kafka's special brand of disorienting surrealism”;[2] Canicule (2013); Cairo (2014), which was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize, Abacus (Vagabond, 2015), The Combinations (2016), shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize and praised as "an important and corrosive novel, which is a commitment to creativity in the face of absurdity, a politics of avant garde literary concentration and experience”,[3] and most recently, Vampyr (2020) and The Garden: Director's Cut (2020).

In 2013, Breakfast at Midnight was translated into Czech by David Vichnar and published by Argo Press.

Armand's critical and theoretical work has been published in journals such as CTheory, Triquarterly and Culture Machine.

1 & 2 (2015, 2017), Helixtrolysis: Cyberology & the Joycean “Tyrondynamon Machine” (2014), The Organ Grinder's Monkey (2013),Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture (2008), Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality (2007) and Contemporary Poetics (2007).

Synopticon (with John Kinsella) (Prague: Litteraria, 2012) Indirect Objects (Sydney: Vagabond, 2014) Rube Goldberg Variations (Prague: Vlak Records, 2015) East Broadway Rundown (Prague: Vlak Records, 2015) Monument (with John Kinsella; London: Hesterglock Press, 2020) The Garden (Cambridge: Salt, 2001) The Garden Menudo (New York: Antigen, 2006) Menudo Clair Obscur (London: Equus, 2011) Breakfast at Midnight (London: Equus, 2012) Canicule (London: Equus, 2013) Snídaně o půlnoci (trans.

David Vichnar; Prague: Argo, 2013) Cairo (London: Equus, 2014) Abacus (Sydney: Vagabond Press, 2015) The Combinations (London: Equus, 2016) GlassHouse (London: Equus, 2018) Gagarin (Always Crashing 3, 2020) The Garden (Director's Cut) (Minneapolis: 11:11, 2020) Vampyr (Alienist, 2020) Hotel Palenque (Minor Literatures, 2021) Night Joyce of a Thousand Tiers.

Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology Prague: Karolinum Press/Charles University Press, 2003.

Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2006.

Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2007.

The Return of Kral Majales Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990–2010 An Anthology Ed.

Helixtrolysis / Cyberology & the Joycean “Tyrondynamon Machine” Prague: Litteraria Pragensia Books, 2014.