Nicolas Pages (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781635901948)

An ode to mad love, awarded the Prix de Flore in 1999.

Published in 1999 and awarded that year's Prix de Flore, Nicolas Pages marks a departure from the Sadean preoccupations of Guillaume Dustan's first three novels; it is, in essence, a love story. Inspired by a failed romance with the Swiss artist-writer Nicolas Pages and collaging texts that Dustan initially produced for a wide variety of other occasions (magazine articles, short stories, project notes, shopping lists, and more), the "auto-/bio-/porno-graphic" prose of Nicolas Pages is by turns trashy and encyclopedic, corporeal and philosophical. Here Dustan inaugurates a "gay literature" that is no longer painful or shameful, but epicurean and cheerful without ever lapsing into idealism. A vibrant plea for gay rights and a tapestried text that is more than the sum of its many styles, Nicolas Pages is a call to explore the body, sexuality, and writing in all their variety; it is a hymn to life, humanity, pleasure, and desire.

Author: Guillaume Dustan
ISBN-10: 1635901944
ISBN-13: 9781635901948
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Language: English
Published: 12/12/2023
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.30w x 1.30d