{"id":8392,"title":"The Night","dimensions":"19 cm x 14 cm, 155 p, language: English, published by Book Works, London, ISBN 978 1 906012 52 6","date_begin":"2013-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/869","stream_count_app":13,"permalink":"the-night","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/018/988/large/Untitled008.jpg?1380272124","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026lsquo;\u003cem\u003eLa Nuit\u003c/em\u003e [\u003cem\u003eThe Night\u003c/em\u003e] is about the Paris of 1957 \u0026ndash; the one I see when I close my eyes (the nostalgic note). There\u0026rsquo;s no need to cry, it\u0026rsquo;s still there. We can piece together the image from the scattered pieces of the jigsaw. And if La Nuit is a love story, it\u0026rsquo;s not for him, or for her, or for someone else, or for me. It\u0026rsquo;s a love story, a story of lost love, for the streets.\u0026rsquo; \u0026ndash; from the new preface, Mich\u0026egrave;le Bernstein\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMich\u0026egrave;le Bernstein was a founding member of the Situationist International. Following \u003cem\u003eAll the King\u0026rsquo;s Horses\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Night \u003c/em\u003ewas also written for cash, and again cannibalises the plot of \u003cem\u003eLes Liaisons Dangeureuses\u003c/em\u003e, featuring the same characters as her debut: Gilles, Genevi\u0026egrave;ve, Carole and Bertrand. The story remains the same, but the book is different, this time parodying the style of the nouveau roman, with its elongated sentences and non-linear sense of time and place. As its protagonists drift through the streets of Paris, through the entanglements of a m\u0026eacute;nage \u0026agrave; trois, and the ennui of a summer holiday on the C\u0026ocirc;te d\u0026rsquo;Azur, \u003cem\u003eThe Night\u003c/em\u003e is littered with d\u0026eacute;tournements \u0026ndash; unattributed quotations and knowing winks at situationist practices \u0026ndash; and clues that give insight into the lives and spirit of both the author and her husband Guy Debord. With a new preface for the English edition by the author, \u003cem\u003eThe Night\u003c/em\u003e has been translated by Clodagh Kinsella, and edited by Everyone Agrees, and designed by Erik Hartin, as part of a project with \u003ca href=\"http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/8393\"\u003eAfter The Night, a d\u0026eacute;tournement of La Nuit\u003c/a\u003e, set in London, 2013. Everyone Agrees are a collective who operate and publish out of London and New York.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1766\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}