Cri de rage des années folles, ce poème érotique fut censuré dans plusieurs États américains dès sa publication en 1928. Jugée obscène, cette oeuvre lyrique scandée au rythme des chorus de jazz circula d'abord sous le manteau avant de devenir un ouvrage culte pour des générations. À la fois sombres et électriques, les dessins d'Art Spiegelman ont insufflé une nouvelle vie au chef d'oeuvre de Joseph Moncure March.

La nuit d'enfer

"Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord."-- The New York TimesArt Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets.Here is a poem that can make even readers with no time for poetry stop dead in their tracks. Once read, large shards of this story of one night of debauchery will become permanently lodged in the brain. When The Wild Party was first published, Louis Untermeyer declared: "It is repulsive and fascinating, vicious and vivacious, uncompromising, unashamed . . . and unremittingly powerful. It is an amazing tour de force."

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