The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Volume 1: In My Room; I'm Going Out Tonight; Stronger Than Me

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Guillaume Dustan Thomas Clerc

The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Volume 1

In My Room; I'm Going Out Tonight; Stronger Than Me

Guillaume Dustan, Thomas Clerc

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English

Semiotext (E)
31 August 2021

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Semiotext(E) / Native Agents

Guillaume Dustan' first three novels, published in French between 1996 and 1998, describing the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Paris still haunted by AIDS.

Guillaume Dustan' first three novels, published in French between 1996 and 1998, describing the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Paris still haunted by AIDS.

This volume collects a suite of three wildly entertaining and trailblazing short novels by the legendary French anti-assimilationist LGBTQ+ writer Guillaume Dustan. Published sequentially in France between 1996 and 1998, the three novels are exuberant and deliberately affectless accounts of the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Parisian club and bath scene still haunted by AIDS.

In My Room (1996) takes place almost entirely in the narrator's bedroom. The middle volume, I'm Going Out Tonight (1997) finds him venturing out onto the gay scene in one long night. Finally, in Stronger Than Me (1998) the narrator reflects on his early life, which coincided with the appearance and spread of the AIDS virus in France.

A close contemporary of Dennis Cooper, Brett Easton Ellis, Kevin Killian, and Gary Indiana, Guillaume Dustan's deadpan autofiction is at once satirical and intimate, and completely contemporary.

By: Guillaume Dustan, Thomas Clerc
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9781635901429
ISBN 10: 1635901421
Series: Semiotext(E) / Native Agents
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 31 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Guillaume Dustan (1965-2005) worked as an administrative judge in France before turning to writing full-time. He is the author of eight books, including the award-winning novel Nicholas Page. He was posthumously awarded the Prix Sade in 2013.

Reviews for The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Volume 1: In My Room; I'm Going Out Tonight; Stronger Than Me

His books are not the sort of autofictional Aids narratives made famous by his more high-minded predecessor Herve Guibert, whose interest in putrefaction, illness, death Dustan disliked. Instead they are about the banality of living and fucking with HIV. The point of gay literature, he felt, was not to concentrate on 'suffering' but 'to roll around on the floor and tell people: you're not having your asses sufficiently eaten and you're not doing enough coke.' -Lili Own Rowlands, London Review of Books