The Clouds
ISBN-13: 9781940953342
Author(s): Juan Jose Saer
Subjects: FA, FBA, FBC
Publisher: Open Letter
Publisher Imprint: Open Letter
Publication Date: 21-05-2016
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£14.99
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.