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Now the night begins
- Title
- Now the night begins / Alain Guiraudie ; translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman ; afterword by Bruce Hainley and Wayne Koestenbaum.
- Author
- Guiraudie, Alain, 1964-
- Publication
- South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e), [2018]
- Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- 231 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "At the tail end of summer vacation, Gilles Heurtebise drifts between lazy afternoons, swimming, cruising the shores of a nearby lake, and absentmindedly hooking up with old lovers. He has yet to achieve material or romantic stability. He is forty, facing a precarious future with unformed fears and regrets. The one thing that seems solid is Grampa, the ninety-year-old patriarch of a family Gilles has befriended. Gilles grows obsessed by the old man, and a strange sexual bond grows between the two. When the police get involved, and Gilles is witness to a murder, the banality of interhuman violence is brought to a paroxysmal climax. The winner of France's prestigious Prix Sade, Now the Night Begins is a meditation on friendship, love, power, and abuse in a world where social relations have radically disintegrated. Interwoven with swaths of Occitan, the language of troubadours and love, and by turns hyperrealist and phantasmagoric, the novel recalls Georges Bataille's dark surrealism and the unvarnished violence of Bret Easton Ellis. It proves Alain Guiraudie's status as the preeminent writer of the vulnerability underlying our contemporary malaise"--Dust jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Ici commence la nuit. English
- Alternative Title
- Ici commence la nuit.
- Subjects
- Language (note)
- Translated to English from French.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-6672
- ISBN
- 1635900050
- 9781635900057
- OCLC
- 978539884
- Author
- Guiraudie, Alain, 1964- author.
- Title
- Now the night begins / Alain Guiraudie ; translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman ; afterword by Bruce Hainley and Wayne Koestenbaum.
- Publisher
- South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e), [2018]
- Distributor
- Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated to English from French.
- Added Author
- Zuckerman, Jeffrey, 1987- translator.Hainley, Bruce, writer of afterword.Koestenbaum, Wayne, writer of afterword.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-6672