Hallucinating Foucault (20 page)

I always wake shivering, wretched, alone.

Paul MICHEL

b 15 June 1947

Toulouse

Educated Collège St Bénédict

1966–70 Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Studied painting and sculpture

1968
La Fuite
trans. UK/USA
Escape
1970

1974
Ne demande pas: roman
trans. UK/USA
Don’t Ask

1976
La Maison d’Eté.
Prix Goncourt. trans. UK
The Summer House

1980
Midi: roman:
trans. same title.

1983
L’Evadé: roman
trans. USA
The Prisoner Escapes

Diagnosed schizophrenic: sectioned Hôpital Ste-Anne, Paris. June 1984

Michel FOUCAULT

b. 15 October 1926

Poitiers

Educated Collège St Stanislaus

1946 Ecole Normale Supérieure

1948 First suicide attempt

1961
Madness and Civilization

1966
The Order of Things

1969
Archaeology of Knowledge

1975
Discipline and Punishment

1976
A History of Sexuality

Killed in a road accident, Nice. 30 September 1993

Buried Gaillac

1984
The Care of the Self, The Uses of Pleasure

Died of AIDS, Paris. 26 June 1984

Buried Poitiers

This book is a work of fiction and is therefore closely based on the lives of a good many real people whom I have had the pleasure of knowing. I would like to thank the staff and patients at Sainte-Marie in Clermont-Ferrand, the real Pascal Vaury for his time and expertise, everyone at Villa Saint-Benoît, Berre-Les Alpes, including Baloo, the guardian of the gateway. I could never have written a word without the constant support, practical care and boundless generosity of Nicole Thouvenot, Jacqueline Martel and S J.D. to whom this book is dedicated, as always, with all my love.

Patricia Duncker
—France, 1995

Patricia Duncker was born in the West Indies. She teaches writing, literature, and feminist theory at the University of Wales and lives for part of the year in France.
Hallucinating Foucault
is her first novel.

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