Evguenie Sokolov     by Serge Gainsbourg, Translated by Doreen Weightman Original language: French Country: France   Published by TamTam Books Pub. Date: 1998 Pub. Place: USA Format: 84 pages Dimensions: 0.29 x 7.02 x 5.01 inches ISBN: 0966234618 List Price: $17.00 buy now directly from the publisher Free Shipping Worldwide

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From the publisher This is the one and only novel by the 20th century provocateur of French pop music and film - the legendary Serge Gainsbourg. This prototype lusty punk tore into the threads of French society with his numerous films, music projects, and outlandish persona. He made recordings with Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin and a scandalous recording of "Lemon Incest" with his own daughter Charlotte. If that wasn't bad enough, he told Whitney Houston live on French TV that he would love 'to f#@$' her.

Evguenie Sokolov is a novel about an artist who uses his intestinal gases as the medium for his scandalous artwork. What once was a huge smelly and noisy problem in his social and sex life becomes a tool for success in the early eighties art world.

"Not since the turn-of-the-century performances at the Moulin Rouge of the infamous "Petomane" has flatulence been treated with such dignity; something of a Rabelaisian memoir, Gainsbourg presents Sokolov's story with grotesque tragedy and erudition, bringing a pathos to gas in a classically French autobiographical syntax that shifts in the third person as Sokolov's fame increases. This short work is well-translated, and provides a humorous English introduction to a particularly charming scandal-monger." —Excerpted from a longer piece in The Boston Book Review