Crazy for Vincent by Hervé Guibert - ISBN: 9781584351993
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Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love.

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    96 pages

  • Release Date

    24 March 2017

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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 VincentCrazy 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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781584351993
ISBN-10:1584351993
Author:Hervé Guibert, Bruce Hainley, Christine Pichini
Publisher:Autonomedia
Imprint:Semiotext
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:96
Release Date:24 March 2017
Weight:124g
Dimensions:203mm x 137mm x 6mm
Series:Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
About The Author

Hervé Guibert

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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