A postgraduate student writing a thesis on the french writer paul michel starts a relationship with the germanist, a girl he meets in the library, at cambridge university. Simon has spent a lot of the last few weeks whizzing round the festival to report back on events starring and where possible interviewing them afterwards the likes of colm. She attended school in england and, after a period spent working in germany, she read english at newnham college, cambridge. Unlike other novelists who might lull themselves with their favourite passages of proust or jane austen, she watches trash television b movies. Sophie and the sibyl by patricia duncker overdrive. Hallucinating foucault is a literary thriller that explores with consummate mastery the passionate relationship between reader and writer, between the factual and the fictional, between sanity and madness. In patricia duncker s novel the writer and reader are interchangeablepaul michel, a writer of the french literary world and homosexual outcast, writes fiction to his reader, foucault, who in turn, writes to michel through his published philosophical works. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books. Borrowed a dvd from my local library and liked it well enough to read the book free kobo download.
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