Due to the awarded Prix Décembre and a memorable reading by Patrice Chéreau in Avignon, Pierre Guyotat's book was celebrated in France as a sensational return of the author to literature and the audience. The text not only marks a powerful sign of life but also an astonishing linguistic new beginning, leading to an extremely productive creative phase in the following years. Following "Herkunft," the account of a child who dedicates himself entirely to a life as a poet in the face of war and destruction, and "In der Tiefe," which revolves around a brief period of no more than eight summer weeks in the author's fifteenth year, between open acts of creation and mysterious sexuality, "Koma" now presents the book about Guyotat's long-standing psychiatric crisis and his liberation from it.