{"product_id":"in-the-deep","title":"In the Deep (Semiotext(e) \/ Native Agents)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn autobiographical incantation of adolescent shame, religious masturbation, and the salvation embodied in the creative act.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eI believe that destiny is the hesitation between whorehouse writing and poetry, Evil and Good. In my body almost deadened to stupidity by its growing length, I am carrying that destiny.\u003cbr\u003e—from \u003ci\u003eIn the Deep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hypnotic account of three days and nights plucked from the summer of 1955, \u003ci\u003eIn the Deep\u003c\/i\u003e maps the origins, development, and meaning of Pierre Guyotat's creative vocation. To read it is to inhabit the life of an adolescent boy who is just discovering his calling to write, while also tormented by the questions left unanswered by his Catholic upbringing. Faced with his faith's failure, he feels the need to invent another one—one much darker and conflicted—which he believes will be his destiny. \u003ci\u003eIn the Deep\u003c\/i\u003e leads us through the foundations of Guyotat's infamous “beat-sheet”: the masturbatory writing practice that caused a scandal in the 1970s when he first disclosed it, and which—although he has since disowned it—remains fundamental to any understanding of Guyotat's oeuvre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike Guyotat's other works, which deploy the sustained and taxing invention of an altogether other language—and another reality beyond any notion of morality-—\u003ci\u003eIn the Deep\u003c\/i\u003e is written in an almost classical language, borrowing its timeless rhythmic prose from Latin syntax, and riddled with interrogatives that are part of a French tradition harking back to Rabelais. Nonetheless, as a contemporary \u003ci\u003eDe Rerum Natura\u003c\/i\u003e, at once comic and profound, this narrative explores the same issues that run through all of Guyotat's writing: the always precarious grounding to sex, humanity, ethics, and God.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51229663330592,"sku":"9781584351610","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781584351610.jpg?v=1770843814","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/in-the-deep","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}