Composed mostly of poems and drawings, L'Histoire documents the abstract history and psychological deterioration of a young artist in the wake of displacement. Spanning a four year period, the book wavers between absolute fiction and absolute biography as a depiction of and by an author who’s lived reality was also his fictionalization of it as an attempt to create a personal culture- a proposal that is at once a futile, and seemingly necessary. Where he succeeds, readers will find themselves lost in incoherency, displaced from what is familiar and knowable, and where he fails (notably, by relying on his native English, to which he assigns new signifiers and connotations) the reader will find entrance into a complex story, which works as much through image and text as it does layout. In addition to being a work itself, L'Histoire is used as an improvisational score for live performance. It is being made available here, in full and for free, for the first time.
