The Great Easter
Ambulation
$40.80
- Hardcover
112 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2022
Summary
Paris, Easter weekend 1960. The French composer Jacques Besse sets out on a marathon stroll through the city that begins on Good Friday, when he leaves his brother’s house on rue de Turbigo, and ends on Easter Monday, when, having declared himself Mars, the god of war, to mystified restaurant-goers, he ambles back toward Saint-Germain-des-Pres.
The Great Easter—a memoir in the form of a novella, or perhaps a novella in the form of a memoir—is the first-person account of a hal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262047081 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026204708X |
| Author: | Jacques Besse, Keith Harris |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm |
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About The Author
Jacques Besse
Jacques Besse (1921-1999) was a composer for the cinema and theater. After years of mental health crises and time spent in and out of psychiatric hospitals and prisons, he went to live at the experimental psychiatric clinic La Borde, under the care of Felix Guattari.
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