Crazy for Vincent
Crazy for Vincent Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? The chronicle of an obsessive love.In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing…
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Crazy for Vincent
Diary, memoir, poem, fiction? The chronicle of an obsessive love.In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. Autopsy, crime scene, hagiography, hymn?
--from Crazy for VincentCrazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon: Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate "monster" of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime beauty. He drank a liter of tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine... By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of French writer and photographer Herv Guibert's life over the span of six years (from 1982, when he first met Vincent as a fifteen-year-old teenager, to 1988).
After Vincent's senseless death, the narrator embarks on a reconnaissance writing mission to retrieve the Vincent