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The Artist's Novel
L’Agrégation d’un Nom et d’un Messie, 1947
Book
, 20.5 x 14 cm, 452 p., language: French, publisher: Gallimard, ISBN: 2070233154
Literary synopsis
In October 1947 Gaston Gallimard agrees to publish a work defined as a novel in the form of a memoir. L’Agrégation d’un Nom et d’un Messie, about which Georges Bataille wrote some pages in his magazine Critique: "The life of the young Isou is that of any teenager rotten by literature (and by unmentionable knowledge), but projected through the world by an impudence that shakes up - and wants to shake up: Isou is infinitely rude, immoral and irrational."
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