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by Copi (Author), Thibaud Croisy (Afterword by), Kit Schluter (Translator)
The first English translation of Copi's comic masterpiece, a careening pyrotechnic picaresque across France, America, and Ibiza.
Set among the flamboyant demi-monde of the 1970s Paris underground, The Queens' Ball follows the narrator Copi in his attempt to write a novel as life comes undone around him. His Roman lover Pietro is stolen by a Marilyn Monroe impersonator whose coterie take up residence in Copi's flat and pump out low-budget pornographic rags and films. His friends leave him, burnt out from the theatrical excess of the decade. And worst of all his editor keeps calling him, demanding to know where the book is. Propelled by Copi's careening prose and incisive humor, The Queens' Ball swerves from Paris to Ibiza to New York and back again in a whirlwind frenzy of love, loss, and madness. Featuring an illuminating critical appendix by Copi's current French editor, Thibaud Croisy, Kit Schluter's rhapsodic translation marks the d?but of Copi's world-renowned fiction in English.Author Biography
Copi, whose given name was Ra?l Damonte, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1939 and emigrated to Paris, France in 1962, where he died in 1987. He was a prolific playwright, novelist, and cartoonist whose provocative output thumbs its nose at modesty and melancholy. A canonical figure of 1970s Parisian bohemia and counterculture, he produced a prolific body of work that was hybrid and overflowing, ferocious and tender, baroque and distinct from the literary scene of his time. Among his most famous works are The Queens' Ball, The Homosexual or the Difficulty of Sexpressing Oneself, Loretta Strong, and An Inopportune Visit, the first play written in the French language to deal with the AIDS crisis. The unforgettable comics he published in major French outlets such as Le Nouvel Observateur, Lib?ration, and Hara-Kiri are still widely circulated today.
Thibaud Croisy is an author and theater director. In recent years, he has staged several original plays, including T?moignage d'un homme qui n'avait pas envie d'en castrer un autre (Testimony of one man who didn't feel like castrating another man), La Proph?tie des Lilas (The lilac prophecy), and D'o? vient ce d?sir, partag? par tant d'hommes, qui les pousse ? aller voir ce qu'il y a au fond d'un trou? (Wherefrom this desire, shared by so many men, to go see what's at the bottom of a hole?). In 2022, he directed Copi's The Homosexual or the Difficulty of Sexpressing Oneself, which was staged in Paris, Marseille, Nantes, Geneva, and elsewhere. He has written numerous texts on Copi, as well as afterwords to several recent editions of his works, and is currently preparing a Copi biography, forthcoming from Christian Bourgois ?diteur.- ✔ Authenticity Guaranteed — Verified Designer Goods
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