Out

Out

Submitted by NT2 on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 16:16

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Out est un roman qui a été publié en 1973. L'auteur a par la suite décidé de rendre le texte disponible en ligne. Le texte a une forme éclatée et fragmentaire.

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October 26, 2006

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Chaire de recherche du Canada en littérature contemporaine

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time is it. The thudding continues he doesn't breathe. Then it stops. He looks at his watch it's seven A. M. He waits fifteen minutes gets out of bed puts on his pants looks through the peephole opens the door a crack a telegram falls to the floor. He slams the door tears open the envelope it says get rid of the cat. And get out of town regards President Roosevelt.

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« When I started rereading OUT seriously in the course of putting it online, I felt a growing conviction that the book had been written by a shockingly demented lunatic. Then I remembered that I wrote it. And that the lives of many of us had a maniac quality at the time. And that the era it epitomized--it was published in 1973--was a shockingly lunatic period. The book in its manic way catches the tone of the time as I remember it. The movie made from the book several years later (starring Peter Coyote and Danny Glover, still available in many video stores) though excellent in its way, is sane by comparison. OUT, it seems to me, is tuned in to some other reality--speedy, hysterical, wise, obscene, comic, crazy and shamanic, a trip in more ways than one--but a reality that's still as real as sex, dreams, desire, spiritual anguish and a yearning for salvation and cosmic justice. »

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