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Crazy for Vincent (Paperback)
Herv e Guibert; Introduction by Bruce Hainley; Translated by Christine Pichini
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Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography,
hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love. In the middle of the
night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the
third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of
tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine... -from Crazy for
Vincent Crazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it
fixates upon: Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate
"monster" of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime
beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of
French writer and photographer Herve Guibert's life over the span
of six years (from 1982, when he first met Vincent as a
fifteen-year-old teenager, to 1988). After Vincent's senseless
death, the narrator embarks on a reconnaissance writing mission to
retrieve the Vincent that had entered, elevated, and emotionally
eviscerated his life, working chronologically backward from the
death that opens the text. Assembling Vincent's fragmentary
appearances in his journal, the author seeks to understand what
Vincent's presence in his life had been: a passion? a love? an
erotic obsession? or an authorial invention? A parallel inquiry
could be made into the book that results: Is it diary, memoir,
poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? Crazy for
Vincent is a text the very nature of which is as untethered as
desire itself.
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