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Spirale

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Spirale, écrit en 1992 juste avant la mort de David Wojnarowicz, nous offre une succession de vignettes poétiques et virtuoses, de flash-backs déchirants et auto-biographiques, entrecoupés de dessins de l’auteur, qui était également un artiste reconnu. Au cours de ces quatre fragments qui sont autant de réminiscences poétiques et toxiques, l’auteur évoque ses souvenirs; l’errance à la recherche d’une étreinte sexuelle furtive, le regard homo-érotique posé sur des hommes parfois dangereux, l’excitation des sens, la violence funeste de l’enfance marquée par le vagabondage, la brutalité et qui préfigure un avenir sombre (un peu comme chez Hervé Guibert dans La Mort propagande). Dans un mouvement proche de celui d’Au bord du gouffre, la thématique du sida infuse peu à peu le texte, infecte les territoires poétiques et oniriques de l’auteur qui doit affronter la disparition de ses amis et sa destruction annoncée, faisant croître sa révolte et sa rage devant la « saloperie dans son sang qui essaie de le tuer ». Spirale est un texte littéraire éblouissant, porté par la mélopée beat d’une prose enfiévrée. On y retrouve la faune cocasse et interlope tant prisée par l’auteur, et en toile de fond un New York bohème qui est celui des chansons de Lou Reed et des livres d’Hubert Selby Jr.Spirale nous offre le témoignage tout en retenue d’un révolté, un poète visionnaire écorché par la vie, dont la tendresse, la sensibilité, et l’acuité du regard dévoilent à nouveau toute la grâce du talent.

64 pages, Paperback

Published October 20, 2011

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David Wojnarowicz

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David Wojnarowicz was a gay painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s.

He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, and later lived with his mother in New York City, where he attended the High School of Performing Arts for a brief period. From 1970 until 1973, after dropping out of school, he for a time lived on the streets of New York City and worked as a farmer on the Canadian border.

Upon returning to New York City, he saw a particularly prolific period for his artwork from the late 1970s through the 1980s. During this period, he made super-8 films, such as Heroin, began a photographic series of Arthur Rimbaud, did stencil work, played in a band called 3 Teens Kill 4, and exhibited his work in well-known East Village galleries.

In 1985, he was included in the Whitney Biennial, the so-called Graffiti Show. In the 1990s, he fought and successfully issued an injunction against Donald Wildmon and the American Family Association on the grounds that Wojnarowicz's work had been copied and distorted in violation of the New York Artists' Authorship Rights Act.

Wojnarowicz died of AIDS on July 22, 1992. His personal papers are part of the Downtown Collection held by the Fales Library at New York University.

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