{"product_id":"dusty-pink-isbn-9781635900132","title":"Dusty Pink","description":"\u003cb\u003eA cult classic in France, the first translation of a novel that captures a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Paris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003efinally there are the rolling stones who call for all these at the same time among them and around them: the policeman, the cross-dresser, the dancer, Frankenstein, the dandy, the robot\u003cbr\u003e—from \u003ci\u003eDusty Pink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the hope of achieving a “dreary distant banality,” Jean-Jacques Schuhl's first novel is a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Paris, a city that slips into the background but never disappears, hovering on the verge of its own suppression. An elegiac and luminous cut-up, \u003ci\u003eDusty Pink\u003c\/i\u003e brings together race wire results, editions of \u003ci\u003eFrance-Soir\u003c\/i\u003e, the lyrics to well-known British songs, scripts from famous old films, pharmaceutical leaflets, fashion ads, and strips and scraps of culture in which the avant-garde and academicism blur in an overview of the cultural scene. This world of atmospheres, portraits, and dazzling associations of ideas creates a plane of shimmering surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in French in 1972, Jean-Jacques Schuhl's \u003ci\u003eDusty Pink\u003c\/i\u003e became a cult classic. This is its first translation.\u003c\/p\u003eThe long-awaited English-language debut of \u003ci\u003eDusty Pink\u003c\/i\u003e by Jean Jacques-Schuhl, who is something like a combination of Lou Reed and Baudelaire, but more careful, less productive, and still, blessedly, living. Schuhl won the Prix Goncourt, quite deservedly, for Ingrid Caven (you might as well order that too, while you're at it). This work, published a good 40 years earlier, is even more radical, dazzling, and strange. A cult classic, sure to start a new trend of some kind, a dusting in dusty pink.—\u003cb\u003eRachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStrategist\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDusty Pink\u003c\/i\u003e is an entrancing, somnambulant creature with provocative eyes of crystal and sartorial smarts. It is quite indifferent to whether or not it is understood. And that blithe indifference is thrilling, enlivening.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e...this is a fascinating piece of and comment on its times -- and one which still resonates in our own.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Complete Review\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator Jeffrey Zuckerman has done an admirable job of making Schuhl's jagged, reference-laden prose comprehensible and meaningful to English-language readers, ensuring that Schuhl's voice comes across in all of its peculiar uniqueness, rhythm, and loveliness.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e—Cult author Jean-Jacques Shuhl won the Prix Goncourt in 2000 for his novel \u003ci\u003eIngrid Caven\u003c\/i\u003e, which sold over 235,000 copies in France. It was his first book since \u003ci\u003eDusty Pink\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1972.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303877464293,"sku":"NP9781635900132","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781635900132.jpg?v=1767725779","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dusty-pink-isbn-9781635900132","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}