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Hallucinating Foucault explores the delicate relationship between author and audience through the eyes of an anonymous graduate student. His investigation into the confinement of the French novelist Paul Michel leads him to engineer the man's release, pulling him into a bizarre and intimate love triangle that includes the psychiatrist’s late life partner, the iconic philosopher Michel Foucault. The novel interrogates the safety of sexual intimacy versus the unpredictable intimacy that reading itself can provoke, offering a nuanced meditation on literary influence, psychiatric confinement, and queer identity.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Patricia Duncker
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