Crazy for Vincent

Hervé Guibert, Bruce Hainley, Christine Pichini

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Semiotext (E)
24 March 2017

Biography; Diaries, letters & journals; Memoirs; Coping with death & bereavement

Series: Crazy for Vincent

Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love.

In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine... -from Crazy for Vincent

Crazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon- Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate ""monster"" of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of French writer and photographer Herve Guibert's life over the span of six years (from 1982, when he first met Vincent as a fifteen-year-old teenager, to 1988). After Vincent's senseless death, the narrator embarks on a reconnaissance writing mission to retrieve the Vincent that had entered, elevated, and emotionally eviscerated his life, working chronologically backward from the death that opens the text. Assembling Vincent's fragmentary appearances in his journal, the author seeks to understand what Vincent's presence in his life had been- a passion? a love? an erotic obsession? or an authorial invention? A parallel inquiry could be made into the book that results- Is it diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? Crazy for Vincent is a text the very nature of which is as untethered as desire itself.

By: Hervé Guibert
Introduction by: Bruce Hainley
Translated by: Christine Pichini
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 113g
ISBN: 9781584351993
ISBN 10: 1584351993
Series: Crazy for Vincent
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 24 March 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Herve Guibert (1955-1991) was a writer, a photography critic for Le Monde, a photographer, and a filmmaker. In 1984 he and Patrice Chereau were awarded a Cesar for best screenplay for L'Homme Blesse. Shortly before his death from AIDS, he completed La Pudeur ou L'impudeur, a video work that chronicles the last days of his life. Bruce Hainley is the author of Under the Sign of sic - Sturtevant's Volte-Face and Art & Culture,both published by Semiotext(e). The editor ofCommie Pinko Guy, he wrote, with John Waters, Art-A Sex Book. He cochairs the Graduate Art program at ArtCenter College of Design and is a contributing editor atArtforum.

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Crazy for Vincent

Hervé Guibert, Bruce Hainley, Christine Pichini

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