Crazy for Vincent

Herve Guibert

Crazy for Vincent
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Autonomedia
Country
United States
Published
24 March 2017
Pages
96
ISBN
9781584351993

Crazy for Vincent

Herve Guibert

Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? The chronicle of an obsessive love.In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine… -from Crazy for Vincent Crazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon- Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate monster of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of French writer and photographer Herve Guibert’s life over the span of six years (from 1982, when he first met Vincent as a fifteen-year-old teenager, to 1988). After Vincent’s senseless death, the narrator embarks on a reconnaissance writing mission to retrieve the Vincent that had entered, elevated, and emotionally eviscerated his life, working chronologically backward from the death that opens the text. Assembling Vincent’s fragmentary appearances in his journal, the author seeks to understand what Vincent’s presence in his life had been- a passion? a love? an erotic obsession? or an authorial invention? A parallel inquiry could be made into the book that results- Is it diary, memoir, poem, fiction? Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn? Crazy for Vincent is a text the very nature of which is as untethered as desire itself.

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