Following two years of service, he was arrested for “inciting desertion” and subsequently imprisoned – firstly, in a hole in the ground for three months, later in a detention center – an experience which informed much of his early writing. With collaborators including the likes of fellow luminaries Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault (each of whom wrote a preface to his 1970s novel Eden, Eden, Eden), Guyotat epitomised the progressive liberalism of the French creative vanguard, challenging enforced militarism, literary censorship and championing revolution – both politically and poetically.īorn in Bourg-Argental in 1940, Guyotat wrote his first novel shortly before being drafted into the Franco-Algerian War in 1960. Who? Pierre Guyotat is a writer who epitomises the literary avant-garde a pioneer of linguistic creativity who celebrated his right to protest and freedom of speech during mid-20th century Paris.
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