Guyotat's unique elision of brutal warfare and sexual ecstasy is regularly claimed as the greatest French novel of modern times. Compacting together elements from mythology, Lautreamont's Maldoror and Luis Bunuel's film Los Olvidados, he assembled a vision of contemporary life as a relentless display of slavery, prostitution and degradation, in which only catastrophic eruptions of atrocity and the delirious intervention of depraved sex acts can possess meaning for the book's lacerated human figures.
- ISBN10 0982046421
- ISBN13 9780982046425
- Publish Date 1 August 2009
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 8 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Solar Books
- Edition New, Revised ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 392
- Language English