Coma

For all it is a text of deterioration, of plowing into a coma through over-work, over-art, and over-language-creation, it is also a text of great sensitivity to the world and to humanity. It’s an urgent, necessary publication that speaks, loader than anything else, the import of writing, and the implications of artistic engagement. These implications are dangerous, and so inescapably, so palpably, real. Coma is a generous gift: Guyotat’s writing is literally stunning but it’s not stunted, and never stunting.

Pierre Guyotat (born 1940) has been a source of French literary scandal since the 1967 publication of Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers. The French government banned his novel Eden Eden Eden from being publicized, advertised on posters, or sold to anyone under the age of 18 from its publication in 1970 until 1981.

Gary Indiana is a novelist, playwright, critic, essayist, filmmaker, and artist. Hailed by the Guardian as “one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche,” and by the Observer as “one of the most woefully underappreciated writers of the last 30 years,” he published a memoir, I Can Give You Anything But Love, in 2015. He is also the author of Three Month Fever—The Andrew Cunanan Story and Resentment—A Comedy.

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