num_pages: 175
description: In this remarkable debut, Patricia Duncker weaves a spellbinding tale of a lost writer and the single-minded young student who sets out to find him. Exploring the terrain that lies between love and madness, Hallucinating Foucault masterfully tracks the growing obsession of its narrator for a brilliant, glamorous, but tragically insane novelist named Paul Michel, former enfant terrible of French letters, who has not been seen in public for nearly a decade.Tracing a quest that begins in the halls of Cambridge University, descends to the forbidden spaces of an isolated asylum, and moves on to the sunbaked shores of the south of France, Hallucinating Foucault brings to life a love affair like no other.
language: English
title: Hallucinating Foucault
titlecomplete: Hallucinating Foucault
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Mental Illness, LGBT, France, Fiction, Writing, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 2023
places: Cambridge, England, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: McKitterick Prize
publisher: Ecco