Fiction. Translated from the French by Bruce Benderson. An excerpt from Pierre Guyotat's groundbreaking novel of sexual reductionism and linguistic purification, one of the most radical attacks on the power of civilized language ever attempted.
"This book is a crime.... Accentuated rhythmized, lexiconized by...everything I've been forbidden to live...."—Pierre Guyotat
Author City: FRA
Pierre Guyotat was born in a small town in south-central France in 1940. In 1962, he was charged as an accomplice to desertion during the Algerian war and imprisoned in solitary confinement. In 1967 he published Tomb for Five Hundred Thousand Soldiers. Later works include Eden, Eden, Eden (1970); Prostitution (1975); and Le Livre (1984).