Dusty Pink

<b>A cult classic in France the first translation of a novel that captures a subjective stroll through an underground glamorous Paris</b><p>finally there are the rolling stones who call for all these at the same time among them and around them: the policeman the cross-dresser the dancer Frankenstein the dandy the robot<br>--from <i>Dusty Pink</i></p><p>Written with the hope of achieving a dreary distant banality Jean-Jacques Schuhl's first novel is a subjective stroll through an underground glamorous Paris a city that slips into the background but never disappears hovering on the verge of its own suppression. An elegiac and luminous cut-up <i>Dusty Pink</i> brings together race wire results editions of <i>France-Soir</i> the lyrics to well-known British songs scripts from famous old films pharmaceutical leaflets fashion ads and strips and scraps of culture in which the avant-garde and academicism blur in an overview of the cultural scene. This world of atmospheres portraits and dazzling associations of ideas creates a plane of shimmering surfaces.</p><p>Published in French in 1972 Jean-Jacques Schuhl's <i>Dusty Pink</i> became a cult classic. This is its first translation.</p>