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In the Deep (Paperback)
Pierre Guyotat; Translated by Noura Wedell
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R548
R452
Discovery Miles 4 520
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An autobiographical incantation of adolescent shame, religious
masturbation, and the salvation embodied in the creative act. I
believe that destiny is the hesitation between whorehouse writing
and poetry, Evil and Good. In my body almost deadened to stupidity
by its growing length, I am carrying that destiny. -from In the
Deep A hypnotic account of three days and nights plucked from the
summer of 1955, In the Deep maps the origins, development, and
meaning of Pierre Guyotat's creative vocation. To read it is to
inhabit the life of an adolescent boy who is just discovering his
calling to write, while also tormented by the questions left
unanswered by his Catholic upbringing. Faced with his faith's
failure, he feels the need to invent another one-one much darker
and conflicted-which he believes will be his destiny. In the Deep
leads us through the foundations of Guyotat's infamous
"beat-sheet": the masturbatory writing practice that caused a
scandal in the 1970s when he first disclosed it, and which-although
he has since disowned it-remains fundamental to any understanding
of Guyotat's oeuvre. Unlike Guyotat's other works, which deploy the
sustained and taxing invention of an altogether other language-and
another reality beyond any notion of morality--In the Deep is
written in an almost classical language, borrowing its timeless
rhythmic prose from Latin syntax, and riddled with interrogatives
that are part of a French tradition harking back to Rabelais.
Nonetheless, as a contemporary De Rerum Natura, at once comic and
profound, this narrative explores the same issues that run through
all of Guyotat's writing: the always precarious grounding to sex,
humanity, ethics, and God.
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Coma (Paperback)
Pierre Guyotat; Introduction by Gary Indiana; Translated by Noura Wedell
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R469
R392
Discovery Miles 3 920
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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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Polysexuality (Paperback, 2Rev ed)
Francois Peraldi, Pierre Guyotat, Daniel Sloate, Demetrius Zambaco, Pierre Klossowski
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R1,453
Discovery Miles 14 530
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Mixing documents, interviews, fiction, theory, poetry, psychiatry
and anthropology, "Polysexuality" became the encyclopedia sexualis
of a continent that is still emerging. Originally conceived as a
special Semiotext(e) issue on homosexuality at the end of the 70s,
"Polysexuality" quickly evolved into a more complex and
iconoclastic project whose intent was to do away with recognized
genders altogether, considered far too limitative. The project
landed somewhere between humor, anarchy, science-fiction, utopia
and apocalypse. In the few years that it took to put it together,
it also evolved from a joyous schizo concept to a darker,
neo-Lacanian elaboration on the impossibility of sexuality. The
tension between the two, occasionally perceptible, is the
theoretical subtext of the issue. Upping the ante on gender
distinctions, "Polysexuality" started by blowing wide open all
sexual classifications, inventing unheard-of categories, regrouping
singular features into often original configurations, like
Corporate Sex, Alimentary Sex, Soft or Violent Sex, Discursive Sex,
Self- Sex, Animal Sex, Child Sex, Morbid Sex, or Sex of the Gaze.
Mixing documents, interviews, fiction, theory, poetry, psychiatry
and anthropology, "Polysexuality" became the encyclopedia sexualis
of a continent that is still emerging. What it displayed in all its
forms could be called, broadly speaking, the Sexuality of Capital.
(Actually the issue being rather hot, it was decided to cool it off
somewhat by only using "capitals" throughout the issue. It was also
the first issue for which we used the computer). The
"Polysexuality" issue was attacked in Congress for its alleged
advocation of animal sex. Includes work by Alain Robbe-Grillet,
Felix Guattari, Paul Verlaine, William S. Burroughs, Georges
Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, Roland Barthes, Paul Virilio, Peter
Lamborn Wilson, and more.
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