A poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last avantgarde 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 avantgarde visionary of the twentieth century, and the nearcult status of his workbecause of its extreme linguistic innovation and its provocative violencehas made him one of the most influential of French writers today. He has been hailed as the true literary heir to Lautramont 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 Dcembre, 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 selfimposed starvation. A poetic, cruelly lucid account, Coma links Guyotats illness and loss of subjectivity to a broader concern for the slow, progressive regeneration of...

Binding: Paperback;232 pages; Publisher: Autonomedia; Classification: FA; Weight: 480 g; Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 23

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