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The interview is a very interesting written and thought-provoking story by Guillaume Leblon and Thomas Boutoux. It's one of those books you are not sure what they are trying to say, or maybe you are, but eventually you realize that it's not rocket science and you can't tolerate that. It has to be kind of conceptual and it has to be kind of weird, employing hidden meanings and extensions, in-depth symbolisms and a sarcastic approach towards its own format.
The book is a translation into English of the transcript of the play The Interview, as performed on January 17, 2007 at the Credac, Contemporary Art Centre, Ivry-sur-Seine. It is a dialogue between an artist and a writer. The first one wants to publish a monograph on his work and to employ the second one to write it; in a non-conventional way though. So, the play is featuring this kind of surreal dialogue between the two men which progressively is taking the form of an interview. The writer is the interviewer, trying to figure out what is it that the artist has in mind.
Either way, that kind of books are always very inspiring, not so much because of their own content; but because of their ability to intrigue our appetite for personal interpretations and attachment of meaning to them.
Nikos Georgopoulos
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