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Feb 16, 2023 · Midmorning on Easter Monday of 1960, the French composer Jacques Besse, thirty-nine years old, newly homeless and mostly penniless, steps out into the slowly moving traffic at the busy...
Paris, Easter weekend 1960. The French composer Jacques Besse sets out on a marathon stroll through the city that begins on Good Friday, when he leaves his brother's house on rue de Turbigo, and ends on Easter Monday, when, having declared himself Mars, the god of war, to mystified restaurant-goers, he ambles back toward Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
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Jacques Besse (1921–1999) was a composer for the cinema and theater. After years of mental health crises and time spent in and out of psychiatric hospitals and prisons, he went to live at the experimental psychiatric clinic La Borde, under the care of Félix Guattari.
Paris, Easter weekend 1960. The French composer Jacques Besse sets out on a marathon stroll through the city that begins on Good Friday, when he leaves his brother’s house on rue de Turbigo, and ends on Easter Monday, when, having declared himself Mars, the god of war, to mystified restaurant-goers, he ambles back toward Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
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Oct 4, 2022 · In Besse's short memoir of his meandering stroll on an Easter weekend in 1960, we get to see inside the mind of schizophrenia, in all its strange associations, anxieties, hallucinations and revelations.
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Oct 4, 2022 · Home. literary criticism. social science. philosophy. The Great Easter. Ambulation. by Jacques Besse. Translated by Keith Harris. Hardcover. $19.95. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780262047081. Pub date: October 4, 2022. Publisher: The MIT Press. 112 pp., 5 x 8 in, 1 b&w illus.