Dusty Pink
$26.57
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2018
Summary
A cult classic in France, the first translation of a novel that captures a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Parisfinally there are the rolling stones who call for all these at the same time among them and around them- the policeman, the cross-dresser, the dancer, Frankenstein, the dandy, the robot-from Dusty PinkWritten with the hope of achieving a “dreary distant banality,” Jean-Jacques Schuhl’s first novel is a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Paris, a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635900132 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635900131 |
| Author: | Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Jeffrey Zuckerman |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 174g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
The long-awaited English-language debut of Dusty Pink by Jean Jacques-Schuhl, who is something like a combination of Lou Reed and Baudelaire, but more careful, less productive, and still, blessedly, living. Schuhl won the Prix Goncourt, quite deservedly, for Ingrid Caven (you might as well order that too, while you’re at it). This work, published a good 40 years earlier, is even more radical, dazzling, and strange. A cult classic, sure to start a new trend of some kind, a dusting in dusty pink.
—Rachel Kushner, StrategistDusty Pink is an entrancing, somnambulant creature with provocative eyes of crystal and sartorial smarts. It is quite indifferent to whether or not it is understood. And that blithe indifference is thrilling, enlivening.
—Artforum…this is a fascinating piece of and comment on its times – and one which still resonates in our own.
—The Complete ReviewTranslator Jeffrey Zuckerman has done an admirable job of making Schuhl’s jagged, reference-laden prose comprehensible and meaningful to English-language readers, ensuring that Schuhl’s voice comes across in all of its peculiar uniqueness, rhythm, and loveliness.
—BookforumAbout The Author
Jean-Jacques Schuhl
Cult author Jean-Jacques Shuhl won the Prix Goncourt in 2000 for his novel Ingrid Caven, which sold over 235,000 copies in France. It was his first book since Dusty Pink was published in 1972.
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