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Item: L’Agrégation d’un Nom et d’un Messie

1947

Book, 20.5 x 14 cm, 452 p., language: French, publisher: Gallimard, ISBN: 2070233154.
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Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2026/137).

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."

Novel's website

Authorship: Artist Author.

Creative Strategy: No Link to Artworks.

Genre: Autobiography.

Publishing: Publishing House.

Theme: Religion.

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