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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,...

In seinem letzten Buch erinnert Pierre Guyotat seine Erfahrungen als junger Rekrut der französichen Armee in der Endphase des Algerienkriegs. Konfrontiert mit militärischem Drill, dumpfer Schikane und blankem Sadismus, interniert wegen Ungehorsam, zehrt der Neunzehnjährige von der Gewissheit seiner künstlerischen Berufung. Während er mit großer Sympathie den Freiheitsjubel der algerischen Bevölkerung beschreibt, erlebt er den Rückzug der französischen Armee als eine so stumpfe wie luzide Zeit.

Nachdem Claude Simon im Jahr 1967 aus Protest gegen die Nichtberücksichtigung von...

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...