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Narcisse on a Tightrope
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Title: Narcisse on a Tightrope
Author: Targowla, Olivier
ISBN: 9781628973242
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2021
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
Fiction 1209484
Publisher Description:
For seventeen years, Narcisse Dièze, chronic sufferer of a mysterious condition called cerebral rheumatism; has lived in the protective confines of a psychiatric hospital. There he has been attended by a contingent of nurses, for whom he has obligingly fathered somewhere between thirty-five and one hundred seventy-one children. (No one knows the exact number.) But the doctors abruptly decide that he is cured and prod him to reenter the outside world. Narcisse is floored, yet he gradually summons the will to try. What follows is an account of this naïve and timid patient's adventures in the realm of the so-called sane. An endearing misfit in the tradition of Walter Mitty and Forrest Gump, Narcisse is destined to totter precariously on the highwire of his existence. Will we see him fall?
A quirky fable that pokes holes in the accepted mental health verities and pleads for a touch of madness. With an introduction by Warren Motte.
Author: Targowla, Olivier
ISBN: 9781628973242
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2021
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
Fiction 1209484
Publisher Description:
For seventeen years, Narcisse Dièze, chronic sufferer of a mysterious condition called cerebral rheumatism; has lived in the protective confines of a psychiatric hospital. There he has been attended by a contingent of nurses, for whom he has obligingly fathered somewhere between thirty-five and one hundred seventy-one children. (No one knows the exact number.) But the doctors abruptly decide that he is cured and prod him to reenter the outside world. Narcisse is floored, yet he gradually summons the will to try. What follows is an account of this naïve and timid patient's adventures in the realm of the so-called sane. An endearing misfit in the tradition of Walter Mitty and Forrest Gump, Narcisse is destined to totter precariously on the highwire of his existence. Will we see him fall?
A quirky fable that pokes holes in the accepted mental health verities and pleads for a touch of madness. With an introduction by Warren Motte.
