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Synopsis
A work of remarkable imagination and insight; never before has such an extraordinary description of what it is to be blind been written. Guibert writes about the blind with virtuosity, entering into their minds and bodies and seeing the inner and outer worlds of their confined existence. This produces a strange penetration into hallucinated sensual confusion, in which colors are sounds and sounds are objects. These nightmarish phantasms of the blind culminate in a gruesome crime de passion.
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Both blind, Josette and Robert live together in the Institute - a home and school for the blind. One morning, Josette is called into the director's office where she is assailed by an odor she has never before encountered. It emanates from Taillegueur (Tiger) who the director has just hired as a masseur for the Institute. Brutal, massive, and savage, Taillegueur sets off a cycle of lust, infidelity, and revenge that culminates in a gruesome crime de passion. Like Nosferatu the Vampire and other strange films Josette and Robert enjoy, Blindsight is a tale of gothic horror. Guibert writes about the blind with virtuosity, entering their minds and bodies and "seeing" the inner and outer worlds of their confined existence. For the sighted reader this produces a strange, hallucinated sensual confusion, in which colors are sounds and sounds are objects.
About the Author
Herv Guibert (1955-91) was born and worked in Paris. A noted photographer, he also contributed articles on culture to the French newspaper "Le Monde" and wrote works of fiction and books on photography.
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- PublisherGeorge Braziller Inc.
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0807614149
- ISBN 13 9780807614143
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages119
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