num_pages: 178
description: The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated. It cannot be proven to exist.Hallucinating Foucault is a love story, a mystery and a quest. It is a gripping tale of a mad writer, the glamorous, scandalous Paul Michel, enfant terrible of French letters and the reader who sets out to find him. The search begins in the archives of university libraries, enters the forbidden spaces of a French asylum, moves onwards into the storms of late summer in Provence and ever deeper into the labyrinth of memory. Passionate and controversial, Hallucinating Foucault crosses the frontiers of gender and sexuality, explores the limits of madness and desire and affirms the boundless loyalty of a reader's love - it is a remarkable book that goes to the very heart of the creative act.
language: English
title: Hallucinating Foucault
titlecomplete: Hallucinating Foucault
genres: Fiction, Writing, France, British Literature, LGBT, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Mental Illness, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2023
places: Cambridge, England, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: McKitterick Prize
publisher: Serpent's Tail