Nicolas Pages

Guillaume Dustan, Peter Valente, James Horton

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English

Semiotext (E)
12 December 2023

Erotic fiction

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

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.

By: Guillaume Dustan, Peter Valente
Translated by: James Horton
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9781635901948
ISBN 10: 1635901944
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 12 December 2023
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 Nicolas Pages. He was posthumously awarded the Prix Sade in 2013.

Reviews for Nicolas Pages

"""Nicolas Pages demonstrates how desire can manifest itself in physical and linguistic structures: run-on sentences, shopping lists, poetry, the body. […] Nicolas Pages is about the structureless structure to which we all belong: the body."" —Allison Armijo, The Gay & Lesbian Review"