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  • Paperback: 178 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (11 Jul 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 033035177X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330351775
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 62,307 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A love story extraordinaire, and a first-rate mystery, by an exciting writer with an off-beat sense of humour. Duncker combines a taste for high romance with a lively and original intellect. The story moves effortlessly from Cambridge to Clermont Ferrand to the Midi as the student narrator seeks out and finds the famous French novelist and enfant terrible Paul Michel. The key to the search lies in a series of letters written by Michel to the French philosopher Michel Foucault who died of AIDS in 1984. Conventional ideas of gender and sexuality are challenged as madness and desire intermingle, building towards a gripping denouement. Not to be missed. (Kirkus UK)

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‘If you buy one book make it Hallucinating Foucault … this novel leaves you perspiring, but chillingly inspired’ --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Formidable, 30 Nov 2001
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Thanks, Patricia Duncker - this was probably one of the best books I have read in the last two years. Not only the style that turns it into a real "page-turner" but the plot, the words - they all helped to construct a wonderful yet still challenging atmophere. I even found myself (or at least a part of myself) in the pedantic student of German Literature. In a German newspaper, the jouranlist regarded the story as humorous - no, it's not. It might seem like that, but in fact it is s story about passion, about love and about desire - and all those affections are bound to literature.
So are mine to that book. Brilliant.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating book - full of surprises., 31 Jan 2000
By M. C. Wherly (New Brighton, Merseyside United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This novel was passed on to me by a friend with excellent taste. So I feared the worst. The mention of a doyen of lit crit in a title was an initial turn-off for me, but then one can never tell a book by either its cover or title. Having read it - and I don't propose to give even a hint of the story; it would feel like a theft from the author - I am inclined to give Foucault a go. Patricia Duncker has managed many difficult tricks with great nerve and verve. A book partly about why people write...for readers of course, but especially for that special person, that dearest him or her who dwells invisible. Writing is a kind of prayer. And writers seldom receive an answer from the ether. I'd say that writers often tend to lose sight of their readers. After all they can get to know their text so well that they can easily forget how difficult it can be for that first-time, waiting-to-be-won-over, reader. Duncker never forgets that she is not only writing for herself. From start to finish I felt included and not at all the bemused onlooker feeling thick. But behind the friendliness of the book is something deeper: the love that a satisfied reader can develop for the invisible author. It's the sort of affection that seldom speaks its name. How many of us write to an author who has moved or changed us? I suppose this sort of review sent off into the ether is the nearest I've ever come to that sort of thing. But that relationship between reader and writer - between creator and 'consumer' of art, is really what this book is about. It's also a most compelling story. I thought I had sussed how things were going to turn out on several occasions, but Ms Duncker was way ahead of me and the real twist in the narrative caught me completely off-guard. A delightful book. I'm on the look-out for more from this invisible author.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A little gem, 19 Sep 2002
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A simply wonderful little book which I would not hesitate to recommend. Its packed full of ideas and makes one cogitate about life as each page is turned. The main success and the principle delight of the novel for me was in its evocation of falling in love and being in love. A book for all those who have ever been a student or admired or just simply longed for someone.
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