Saturday, February 8, 2020

The FBI Watch List Book Club mourns PIERRE GUYOTAT (1940 - 2020)

It is a whole fictional universe of cruel splendor and extreme coherence that closes in on itself. Haunted by the flesh as much as it was by death, this universe parallel to ours had its own rules but radiated to the heart of the French language to illuminate with undeniable power of truth the underside of the cards of human comedy.

The work of Pierre Guyotat, a universe of cruel splendor and haunted by the flesh

The writer's books have irradiated the French language to the point of twisting or mistreating it in its major fiction cycles, when it became more "normative" in its autobiographical accounts.


Blake Butler on Guyotat
Dennis Cooper on Guyotat 

Eden, Eden, Eden and Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers are crucial fixtures encoding the strands of my own work... especially in the portions that could be considered experimental and/or extreme.

RIP 

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