![]() ![]() Based on Guyotat's ordeal as a soldier in the Algerian War, the book earned a cult reputation and became the subject of various controversies, mostly because of its omnipresent sexual obsessions and homoeroticism. In 1967, he published Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats (later released in English as Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers). In 1964, Guyotat published his second novel Ashby. Back in Paris, he got involved in journalism, writing first for France Observateur, then for Nouvel Observateur. After three months in jail he was transferred to a disciplinary centre. ![]() In 1962 he was found guilty of desertion and publishing forbidden material. He was called to Algeria in the same year. Born in Bourg-Argental, Loire, Guyotat wrote his first novel, Sur un cheval, in 1960. ![]()
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