![]() ![]() Éden, on the other hand, jettisoned these tropes, trading characterisation for a constellation of (often sexual often violent) activities unfettered by actors, and cumulative narrative for a cacophony of simultaneous, sometimes orgiastic, events frequently indiscernible from one another. Tombeau was an extended epic comprising equal parts war and sex that persisted in using-if in fantastic and unexpected ways-conventional techniques of composition like characterisation and a relatively sequential narrative. However, this new work, Éden, Éden, Éden ( Eden, Eden, Eden), proved to be a radically different piece from the previous one and was to have a much more difficult reception. By the time his second major publication appeared in 1970, a thirty-year-old Pierre Guyotat was already considered an exceptionally talented avant-garde writer, having published his first major work, Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats ( Tomb for 500,000 soldiers), to no small amount of critical acclaim three years earlier. ![]()
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