Hallucinating Foucault
By: Patricia Duncker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Hopewell, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Foucault, Michel -- Influence -- Fiction.; Literature and mental illness -- Fiction.; Authors and readers -- Fiction.; Novelists -- Fiction.; Gay men -- Fiction.; Cambridge (England) -- Fiction.
Description: An English student is so impressed by a book of philosophy that he travels to France to meet its author, now in an insane asylum. In describing the relationship which grows up between the two men, the novel looks at the bonds that are created between reader and writer, even though they never meet. A first novel.