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Sophie Calle: Exquisite Pain by Sophie Calle (Hardcover, 2004)

Eaton Books (449)

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£149.99

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Good

Good condition. There are some scuffs to the edges and corners of the cover as well as some light marks to the edges of the back, but otherwise in very good condition with pages crisp and clean.

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Over the last two decades, Sophie Calle has made it her business to follow, peek into and illuminate the lives of people she barely knows, with results that both illustrate human vulnerability and tend not infrequently to pathos. In Exquisite Pain, Calle turns her attention to a life-changing and heart-breaking experience from her own past. The book dwells on the time in 1985 when a lover failed to meet Calle as promised in a hotel in New Delhi, after she had completed a 92-day journey through the Far East. Calle was devastated. As ever, she had kept everything from that journey - photographs, ticket stubs, visas and letters - and in the book, each one is rubber-stamped counting down to the fateful day of her heartbreak. A photo of the Chinese countryside, for example, is stamped with the words '81 Days to Pain'. 'Pain D-1' shows the brusque telephone message informing her that her lover would not be coming.