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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherDalkey Archive Press
ISBN-139781943150014
eBay Product ID (ePID)222315103
Product Key Features
Book TitleFrancis Bacon's Armchair
AuthorSebastien Brebel
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicHealth
Publication Year2016
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorSebastien Brebel
Series TitleFre French Literature Series
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States