#guyotat

[abridurif]

(cipm)

[coraggiogroup]

The very origin of the whole system of literature has to be attacked.

Pierre Guyotat

[sourcherryjuice]

Guyotat, Pierre. Coma. Translated by Noura Wedell, Semiotext(e), 2010, p. 20. / Angelico, Fra. The Martyrdom of Saints Cosmas and Damian. 1438-1440, depicted in Coma, p. 16.

[websynradio]

Le livre de la #jeunesse en #revolte contre le #reel imposé par Pierre #guyotat https://www.instagram.com/p/B26vvnoIy3d/?igshid=1oad41qiojgcd

[the-chomsky-hash]

Approaching this point [vis. a notion of sexuality that, as part of processes existing before us and largely unknown to us, passes beyond the individual and ceases to be the basis of a desiring "subject",] you were forced to strip away what made [your previous book] the "Tomb" accessible; you had to - explode all forms and bodies - accelerate all the great machinery of sexuality - let [sexuality] be repeated in the right timeline You promise yourself, I'm afraid (I was going to say: I hope, but it's too easy when it comes to "the other"), some opposition ... There will be scandal, but over something else.

Michel Foucault, There Will Be Scandal, But... (On Pierre Guyotat), message to Pierre Guyatat, Le Nouvel Observateur du 7 septembre 1970

Note from Wikipedia: In 1977, while working on Le Livre (1984) and Histoire de Samora Machel (yet unpublished), he suffered a psychiatric illness. The depression and the deterioration of his physical and mental state culminated, in December 1981, in a coma. Following the election of Francois Mitterrand, France’s first socialist president, in 1981, the ban on Eden, Eden, Eden was lifted.

[the-chomsky-hash]

We would have to give up what we imagine of - our individuality - of our self - of our position as subject In your text, it is perhaps the first time that the relations of the individual and sexuality are frankly and decidedly overthrown; [departing from your previous works,] it is no longer the characters who fade for the benefit of - the elements - structures - personal pronouns but the sexuality that passes beyond the individual and ceases to be "subject".

Michel Foucault, There Will Be Scandal, But... (On Pierre Guyotat), message to Pierre Guyatat, Le Nouvel Observateur du 7 septembre 1970

[the-chomsky-hash]

"Eden" (by definition) is out of place; but I think, although we will try to reduce it by finding a homeland: it will be the body. (the body was, in the thought of yesterday, a "materialistic" elegance to save the subject, the ego) Yet it is from below the body that your text arrives to us: - surfaces, splinters - openings, wounds - clothing and skins that turn and reverse themselves - white and red liquids, "streaming from the eternal outside" I get the impression that you are joining what we have known about sexuality for a long time but that we are carefully kept apart to better protect the primacy of the subject, the unity of the individual and the abstraction of "sex": that it is - not at the limit of the body something like "sex" - not, from one to the other, a means of communication - not even the fundamental or primitive desire of the individual The very fabric of its processes is largely prior to it. The individual is only - a precarious, provisional extension, quickly erased - a pale form that emerges for a few moments

Michel Foucault, There Will Be Scandal, But... (On Pierre Guyotat), message to Pierre Guyatat, Le Nouvel Observateur du 7 septembre 1970

[the-chomsky-hash]

This book, as you well know, will be less easily received than [your previous book] the "Tomb". It lacks the sound of war that allowed your first novel to be heard [under the alibi of war literature].  [...] Your triple "Eden" takes up the same speech [vis. transgressive political signs], but at the smallest possible distance, below the limits of accommodation. We can no longer see, we can no longer imagine the place where you speak and where these sentences come from, this blood: the fog of absolute proximity.

Michel Foucault, There Will Be Scandal, But... (On Pierre Guyotat), message to Pierre Guyatat, Le Nouvel Observateur du 7 septembre 1970