Guyotat, Pierre - Idiocy

An audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: breaking from his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, deserting the French military during the Algerian War. FOR FANS OF: Contemporary French literature; transgressive writing; writing in the Chris Kraus vein, i.e. work that merges elements of autobiography, fiction, philosophy, and criticism; histories of the Algerian War and other struggles for independence. TRANSGRESSIVE CONTENT, GENEROUS SPIRIT: Idiocy is full of transgressive sex and the brutality of war, but it’s all ultimately saved and transfigured by Pierre Guyotat’s frank and unsparing approach. ARGOT & MADE-UP WORDS: Idiocy includes slang and words invented by the author.