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248 pages, Paperback
Published March 13, 2019
Perhaps I am a remote memory in the mind of someone else whom I have imagined myself to be... I am the materialization of something that is at the point of evaporating, a memory at the point of being forgotten...
”A singular experience left an even more disconcerting mark on my life, an event that was the origin of a work I began a few months later and that would eventually be published as Farabeuf or, The Chronicle of an Instant: my discovery, in Georges Bataille's The Tears of Eros, of a photograph of Chinese ritual torture at the beginning of the century."
Do you remember . . .? It is an unquestionable fact that at the precise moment when Farabeuf crossed the threshold of the doorway, she, seated at the back of the hall, shook the three coins in the hollow of her cupped hands and let them fall to the table. The coins did not strike the surface of the table all at once, but produced a tiny jangling sound.