Francis Bacon's Armchair
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
FRE French Literature Series
ISBN-10
194315001X
ISBN-13
9781943150014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint
Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 28th, 2016
Print length
98 Pages
Product Classification:
Family & relationships
Ksh 1,800.00
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The narrator of the novel has just been released from an extended stay at a psychiatric hospital where he developed an obsession with Cathie, a young woman. Desire drives him from his bedroom one night in search of a telephone, which leads him two floors below into the apartment of his neighbor, Sauvage, whom with he develops a bizarre relationship
The unnamed narrator of Francis Bacon’s Armchair has just been released from an extended stay at a psychiatric hospital and now has only one objective: to shut himself away in his apartment and contemplate the best way to restart his life. But his obsession with Cathie, a young woman he met during his convalescence, drives him out of his bedroom one night in search of a telephone—which leads him two floors below into the apartment of his morbidly obese neighbor, Sauvage.
Sauvage is a translator overwhelmed by his current project, The Dictionary of Rare and Incurable Diseases, and by the inherent difficulties of his profession. The narrator begins paying regular visits to his mysterious neighbor, and the two isolated men develop a bizarre relationship dominated by fear, jealousy, and mutual fascination.
A hypnotic and philosophically dense novel, Francis Bacon’s Armchair deftly weaves between explorations of loneliness, language, and obsession.
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