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Hallucinating Foucault

Patricia Duncker

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 1705 Users | 150 Reviews

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Title	:	Hallucinating Foucault
Author	:	Patricia Duncker
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	October 27th 1998 by Vintage (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary

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An intricate and self-reflective novel about that most delicate of relationships--meaning the one between writers and readers. The narrator, an anonymous graduate student, sets off on the trail of a French novelist named Paul Michel, who is currently confined to an asylum. Engineering his hero's release, the narrator finds himself enmeshed in bizarre love triangle, of which the three vertices are himself, the novelist, and the late Michel Foucault. Sex, it seems, can be made safe, but the oddball intimacy of reading cannot.

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Original Title:	Hallucinating Foucault
ISBN:	0375701850 (ISBN13: 9780375701856)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Cambridge, England(United Kingdom) Paris(France) Clermont-Ferrand(France)
Literary Awards:	McKitterick Prize (1997)

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A very well drawn, perfectly paced novel. I am reminded of Gidé's "Fruits of the Earth". (I am sure Drucker meant to refer to this.) Characters and event are believable, though I am still not sure why this is a criterion of quality for me, even when it comes to more outrageous or 'modernist' writing, eg, Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses. (Who in the first can truly believe that a titanic adenoid might menace a city, and in the latter that Polyphemus is once more slain -albeit symbolically - in early

Read this more than 15 years ago when I borrowed it from the British Council Library in Athens. I finished it literally in one seating on my way home by bus! Can't remember much apart from the university campus background and the hint of a great love story, but I would recommend it to anyone looking for a short and lovely book.

Unfortunately, I feel that this short book is one that would be easily spoiled by sharing too much. The protagonist is a doctoral student who is doing a dissertation on an author, Paul Michel. Michel has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and is living is days out in an institution. To reveal more plot (in my opinion) would deprive the reader of the unfolding of the tale, but I will say a few things.First, the story starts slowly, and seems like nothing much at all in terms of a plot. But the

The captivating title ladles servings of disappointment and hope in uneven swathes. A philosophical fiction, a novel of academia, a book on the creative mind, story of a writer. Any one of these would prove necessary for me to read immediately. It was a book of all of these but first it was a, novel. Its parts sprung from the story, shoots and growth. At times a 2 star rating at times touching a spiraling 5. I saw where it meant to arrive. Then, in advance I placed my money down on the table

I actually read this when it first came out in 1996, picking up a copy on a trip to London mainly because the title and cover were intriguing. Although I have absolutely NO memory of that initial reading, this time around I think I was more prepared for sussing out the intricacies of the novel, and being more mature and better read myself (maybe!), appreciating Duncker's ode to the unique bonds between author and (ideal) reader. A really lovely book, that I am sure I'll probably read again,

A lovely little novel and quick read, especially if you're jonesing for reminiscing about Foucault and your own grad school experience. A nifty little plot and brisk writing, loved how very non-American it was but that the dissertation writing experience can feel the same across cultures. It has made me inspired to go back and make sure I've read everything possible of Foucault. Also happy to get glimpses of France here, as we'll be there this summer. I'll be hallucinating my own Foucault for

Hallucinating Foucault - Patricia Duncker 5/5 (2018 favorite)I'm wrecked. The writing in this book was perfect. I laughed, I cried. If I had read it on the Kindle there would be highlights galore.Less that 200 pages, I was drawn immediately in. A scholarly setting, which I always enjoy despite the fact that I am not scholarly and never been in that setting, often grabs me right away. The topic of mental illness always fascinates, and the story is about reading and writing and love. This book had