Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville

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ISBN:: 978-2-9559486-4-4

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Pisti, 80 rue de Belleville is Estelle Hoy’s latest novel.

Elke is a young academic with a troubled past that keeps spilling onto her present. Just as she is about to leave town for a writing retreat, she meets Pisti, a charismatic, hard-boiled but luscious Hungarian left activist, who runs an anarchist collective in Paris. Over one night in a Belleville apartment, old friends and new lovers discuss–and act–polyamory, politics, and the art of conversation.

A wry exploration of the seductive allure of tropes and cliché in the art world and politics, Pisti is also an experiment in writing, shamelessly flirting with namedropping and appropriation. The character of Pisti was appropriated from Chris Kraus’ novel Torpor.

"Pisti and it's blasphemy against the left and art world is not apostasy, but rather a stepping away from a teleological view of politics and instead, a radical reimagining of the role of incompatibilities, …

Pisti, 80 rue de Belleville is Estelle Hoy’s latest novel.

Elke is a young academic with a troubled past that keeps spilling onto her present. Just as she is about to leave town for a writing retreat, she meets Pisti, a charismatic, hard-boiled but luscious Hungarian left activist, who runs an anarchist collective in Paris. Over one night in a Belleville apartment, old friends and new lovers discuss–and act–polyamory, politics, and the art of conversation.

A wry exploration of the seductive allure of tropes and cliché in the art world and politics, Pisti is also an experiment in writing, shamelessly flirting with namedropping and appropriation. The character of Pisti was appropriated from Chris Kraus’ novel Torpor.

"Pisti and it's blasphemy against the left and art world is not apostasy, but rather a stepping away from a teleological view of politics and instead, a radical reimagining of the role of incompatibilities, partial identities, cliché and perhaps ultimately, the unresolvedness of hypocrisy. Which is to say, not taking things too seriously, in order to take them seriously." Estelle Hoy

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New Narrative with Paris, oysters and wonders about art, sex and politics

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Elke, a precarious academic and writer, is on her way to an artist residency in Corrèze but before that, she is spending the evening and the night at a political meeting/party in Paris hosted by Pisti, an anarchist whose never-ending tirades are both terribly exciting and absolutely insufferable. Experimental in its form and extensive use of quotes and elements from a huge number of literary references, the narrative is nevertheless driven by Elke's quest for a kind of honesty, which is definitely not to be confused with a search for authenticity. Whatever action, art performance or orgy takes place in the book, this seeking for accountability operates through a constant multi-layered decentering, thanks to which parody and self-aware humor are not contradictory with a persistant wondering about art, sex, academia and the politics and poetics of it all.