The Works of Guillaume Dustan, Volume 1
In My Room; I'm Going Out Tonight; Stronger Than Me
$43.57
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2021
Summary
Guillaume Dustan’s 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 throu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901429 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1635901421 |
| Author: | Guillaume Dustan, Thomas Clerc |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 606g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 386mm x 158mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(E) / Native Agents |
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“His books are not the sort of autofictional Aids narratives made famous by his more high-minded predecessor Herv
“His books are not the sort of autofictional Aids narratives made famous by his more high-minded predecessor Hervé 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
About The Author
Guillaume Dustan
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.
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