A novel that is a meditation on friendship, love, obsession, power,
and abuse, by turns hyperrealist and phantasmagoric, recalling the
work of Sade and Bataille. And he leaves. I'm not happy, I'm pretty
upset at myself, I wasn't satisfied with him but I wouldn't have
been any better without him. I sit on the couch and think. I'm not
actually thinking, it's already been thought, I have to call
Grampa... I need to hear his voice. I miss him. -from Now the Night
Begins At the tail end of summer vacation, Gilles Heurtebise drifts
between lazy afternoons, swimming, cruising the shores of a nearby
lake, and absentmindedly hooking up with old lovers. He has yet to
achieve material or romantic stability. He is forty, facing a
precarious future with unformed fears and regrets. The one thing
that seems solid is Grampa, the ninety-year-old patriarch of a
family Gilles has befriended. Gilles grows obsessed by the old man,
and a strange sexual bond grows between the two. When the police
get involved, and Gilles is witness to a murder, the banality of
interhuman violence is brought to a paroxysmal climax. The winner
of France's prestigious Prix Sade, Now the Night Begins is a
meditation on friendship, love, power, and abuse in a world where
social relations have radically disintegrated. Interwoven with
swaths of Occitan, the language of troubadours and love, and by
turns hyperrealist and phantasmagoric, the novel recalls Georges
Bataille's dark surrealism and the unvarnished violence of Bret
Easton Ellis. It proves Alain Guiraudie's status as the preeminent
writer of the vulnerability underlying our contemporary malaise.
"The genial perversity of Alain Guiraudie's Now the Night Begins is
something rare and fascinatingly energized, a metaphysical and
moral slapstick that points to the arbitrariness of all authority
and the fluidity of all desires. In its way, the most elegant,
certainly the most hilarious brief for anarchy that anyone has
written in a long time." -Gary Indiana "Raw, sexual, and
scatological, Alain Guiraudie's novel evokes Sade and Bataille."
-Elisabeth Philippe
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