The Great Easter

Ambulation

Jacques Besse, Keith Harris

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MIT Press
01 December 2022

Memoirs

A hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur wanders the streets of Paris over the long Easter weekend of 1960.

A hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur wanders the streets of Paris over the long Easter weekend of 1960.

Paris, Easter weekend 1960. The French composer Jacques Besse sets out on a marathon stroll through the city that begins on Good Friday, when he leaves his brother's house on rue de Turbigo, and ends on Easter Monday, when, having declared himself Mars, the god of war, to mystified restaurant-goers, he ambles back toward Saint-Germain-des-Pres. The Great Easter-a memoir in the form of a novella, or perhaps a novella in the form of a memoir-is the first-person account of a hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur's unending ambulation.

The Great Easter was first published in French in 1969 and became famous a few years later when in their milestone work Anti-Oedipus Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari referred to Besse's walk as the quintessential ""double stroll of the schizo."" (Besse was a patient at Guattari's psychiatric clinic La Borde.) Besse's stroll purees past and present, real and not-real- a rendezvous with a prostitute intersects with Sergei Eisenstein and his entourage, a bellowed song about the sea is overwhelmed by ""memories"" of the 1830 July Revolution, and the entire universe gathers itself up into a bubble above Gare d'Austerlitz. He is seized by anxiety, released by joy; he announces his cosmic celebrity via a huge (imaginary) television while freezing in the night and calling out for bread. A cult favorite in France, The Great Easter is an engrossing, surreal road movie of a book.

By: Jacques Besse, Keith Harris
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262047081
ISBN 10: 026204708X
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 01 December 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Translator's Introduction: The ""Schizo"" and the City -- vii The Great Easter -- 1 Translator's Notes -- 73 Bibliography -- 83"

Jacques Besse (1921-1999) was a composer for the cinema and theater. After years of mental health crises and time spent in and out of psychiatric hospitals and prisons, he went to live at the experimental psychiatric clinic La Borde, under the care of Felix Guattari.

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