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The Clouds

ISBN-13: 9781940953342

Contributor(s): Juan Jose Saer (author), Hilary Vaughn Dobel (translated by)

Subjects: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher: Open Letter

Publisher Imprint: Open Letter

Publication Date: 21-05-2016

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£14.99

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About the book

In Paris, Pichon Garay receives a computer disk containing a manuscript - which could be fictional or a memoir - by a nineteenth-century physician tasked with leading a group of five mental patients on a trip to a recently constructed asylum. Their trip, which ends in disaster, is a brilliant tragicomedy thanks to the various patients, including a delusional man who greatly over-estimates his own importance and a nymphomaniac nun. Fascinating as a faux historical novel, The Clouds is a metaphor for exile and an examination of madness.

The Clouds

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