Diary of an innocent
By: Tony Duvert ; translated [...] with an introduction by Bruce Benderson
Contributors: Benderson, Bruce
Series: Semiotext(e) native agents series; Semiotext(e) native agents series
Publisher: Semiotext(e); Distributed by the MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781584350774
Subjects: Teenage boys; Sexual behavior; Fiction
Work titles: Journal d'un innocent
Description: "Now for the first time, Duvert's most highly crafted novel is available in English. Poetic, brutally frank, and outright shocking, Diary of an Innocent recounts the risky experiences of a sexual adventurer among a tribe of adolescent boys in an imaginary setting that suggests North Africa. More reverie than narrative, Duvert's Diary presents a cascading series of portraits of the narrator's adolescent sexual partners and their culture, and ends with a fanciful yet rigorous construction of a reverse world in which marginal sexualities have become the norm."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Translated from the French.