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Published in French in 2018 and awarded the Prix M\u00e9dicis<\/strong>, Idiocy<\/em> is a searing autobiographical account of Guyotat\u2019s formative years, his rebellion against familial and military authority, and his imprisonment during the Algerian War<\/strong>. Blending linguistic experimentation with a meditation on state violence, eroticism, and the possibility of artistic resistance, the memoir is both an indictment of colonial domination and the formal culmination of a literary vision that Edmund White<\/strong> once described as belonging to \u201cone of the few geniuses of our day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Translator:<\/strong>
Peter Behrman de Sin\u00e9ty<\/strong> grew up in Maine and lives in Paris. He was a lecteur d’anglais at the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, where he has taught since 2011. His translations include \u00c9ric Chevillard’s QWERTY Invectives<\/em> and Ma\u00ebl Renouard\u2019s Fragments of an Infinite Memory<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This event was made possible through the generous support of the Robert Bacon Fund and the French+ Initiative at MIT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please contact Selma Laghmara (selma_laghmara@fas.harvard.edu<\/a>) with any questions about this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6224304,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[214],"app_event_type":[],"class_list":["post-6224170","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-bos"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTranslating at the Edge of Language: Eroticism, Rebellion, and the Algerian War in Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy - A Discussion with Peter Behrman de Sin\u00e9ty - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/translating-at-the-edge-of-language-eroticism-rebellion-and-the-algerian-war-in-pierre-guyotats-idiocy-a-discussion-with-peter-behrman-de-sinety\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Translating at the Edge of Language: Eroticism, Rebellion, and the Algerian War in Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy - A Discussion with Peter Behrman de Sin\u00e9ty - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Published in French in 2018 and awarded the Prix M\u00e9dicis, Idiocy is a searing autobiographical account of Guyotat\u2019s formative years, his rebellion against familial and military authority, and his imprisonment during the Algerian War. 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