Pierre Guyotat's extraordinary novel of 1975, a vast enumeration of sexual acts accumulating and multiplying in an Algerian urban landscape, where every orgasm has its exact price and where every prostitute is one fuck away from death, "Prostitution creates its own corporeal language of sex, stripped violently to the bone, inflicting impact upon impact on the reader's neural system. Revered in his native France, Guyotat remains an unprecedented literary figure, creating work of absolute originality.
Pierre Guyotat's extraordinary novel of 1975, a vast enumeration of sexual acts accumulating and multiplying in an Algerian urban landscape, where every orgasm has its exact price and where every prostitute is one fuck away from death, "Prostitution creates its own corporeal language of sex, stripped violently to the bone, inflicting impact upon impact on the reader's neural system. Revered in his native France, Guyotat remains an unprecedented literary figure, creating work of absolute originality.