A poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last
avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century. Long ago, in
childhood, when Summer reverberates and feels and throbs all over,
it begins to circumscribe my body along with my self, and my body
gives it shape in turn: the "joy" of living, of experiencing, of
already foreseeing dismembers it, this entire body explodes,
neurons rush toward what attracts them, zones of sensation break
off almost in blocks that come to rest at the four corners of the
landscape, at the four corners of Creation.-from Coma The novelist
and playwright Pierre Guyotat has been called the last great
avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century, and the near-cult
status of his work-because of its extreme linguistic innovation and
its provocative violence-has made him one of the most influential
of French writers today. He has been hailed as the true literary
heir to Lautreamont and Arthur Rimbaud, and his "inhuman" works
have been mentioned in the same breath as those by Georges Bataille
and Antonin Artaud. Winner of the 2006 prix Decembre, Coma is the
deeply moving, vivid portrayal of the artistic and spiritual crisis
that wracked Guyotat in the 1980s when he reached the physical
limits of his search for a new language, entered a mental clinic,
and fell into a coma brought on by self-imposed starvation. A
poetic, cruelly lucid account, Coma links Guyotat's illness and
loss of subjectivity to a broader concern for the slow, progressive
regeneration of humanity. Written in what the author himself has
called a "normalized writing," this book visits a lifetime of
moments that have in common the force of amazement, brilliance, and
a flash of life. Grounded in experiences from the author's
childhood and his family's role in the French Resistance, Coma is a
tale of initiation that provides an invaluable key to interpreting
Guyotat's work, past and future.
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