{"product_id":"idiocy-by-pierre-guyotat","title":"Idiocy by Pierre Guyotat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: rebelling aginst his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, from the French military during the Algerian War.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the twentieth century, a literary successor to Sade, Bataille, and Genet whose visceral fictions and bold experiments with language have earned him cult status in France and abroad. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIdiocy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is his searing memoir of coming of age between 1958 and 1962, when he discovered his burgeoning sexuality and aptitude for rebellion—first against his father, whom he escaped to become a writer in Paris, then against the French military authorities as a conscript in the Algerian War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuyotat recounts the atrocities he witnessed first-hand in Algeria, as well as his own harrowing experience of being arrested for inciting desertion and imprisoned in a hole in the ground for three months. Guyotat wields his language like a scalpel, merciless in his exploration of human brutality in all its horrible, granular detail. Yet his generous depictions of camaraderie and friendship are just as unflinching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe winner of the 2018 Prix Médicis, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIdiocy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an incisive condemnation of violence and colonialism, and a bracing, hallucinatory late masterpiece from a writer hailed by Edmund White as \"one of the few geniuses of our day.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Pierre Guyotat is the prince of prose.\" —\u003cem\u003eAlain Badiou\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Guyotat renders the obscene violence of colonialism with unflinching honesty. His writing is gorgeous, brutally poetic without pretense or over-aestheticization. 'Insects scuttle between my fingers like words that escape me.' I didn't just read \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIdiocy\u003c\/span\u003e, I was captured by it. It is a book that throws off your blinders, that changes you.\" —\u003cem\u003eDodie Bellamy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIdiocy\u003c\/span\u003e, as a work of memoir, maintains an uncanny sobriety throughout its reportage, indulgent in its poetical description . . . As a medium intended to survey war and warmongering, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIdiocy \u003c\/span\u003ebecomes more than a simple pulling back of the curtain of atrocity; it would, instead, pull down the whole damned rigging, lights, cameras, and all.\" —\u003cem\u003eBlake Butler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: NYRB Classics\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-1681379197\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Page \u0026 Turner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45045645443280,"sku":null,"price":1095.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8000\/5328\/files\/71Uy9wSK2EL._SL1500.jpg?v=1782121030","url":"https:\/\/pageandturner.ph\/products\/idiocy-by-pierre-guyotat","provider":"Page \u0026 Turner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}