A review by screen_memory
Coma by Pierre Guyotat

5.0

Guyotat's prose explodes with a lyricism both beautiful and perverse. Written in a style more traditional than the avante-garde schizophrenic single-sentence structure of Eden, Eden, Eden and perhaps less hallucinatory than Tomb For 500,000 Soldiers, this fractured biographical narrative recounts Guyotat's violent desire to create, to give birth to figures and worlds, to lend them a displaced voice which contains echoes of their creator, despite the negligence and depletion of his physical body, this "immolated 'I'".