Published: June 29, 2011
Words: 42,206 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

Imagine if Michel Foucault, the great homosexual French Philosopher, had, in fact, had a daughter... This is the story of the girl who wasn't there.

Extended description

Praise for Scribbling On Foucault's Walls:

'It’s a fan­tas­ti­cally, pos­si­bly madly ambi­tious work that self-consciously nego­ti­ates her own highly informed, passionate-but-critical and ulti­mately highly ambiva­lent invest­ment in that very nearly extinct species: The Homo­sex­ual Intel­lec­tual. It won’t be giv­ing too much away to tell you that Foucault’s Daugh­ter, after pro­long­ing the agony of The Homo­sex­ual Intel­lec­tual with its inter­est in him (who else shows any these days?), comes very close to euth­a­niz­ing him.

Many pas­sages in it are beau­ti­fully writ­ten and breath­tak­ingly vivid. The scene, for instance, which rehearses the death of the famous cul­tural critic and QRG hero Roland Barthes in a traf­fic acci­dent stays with you. Even if you feel he is being ever-so-slightly, ever-so-lovingly pushed into the path of the oncom­ing laun­dry van.'

- Mark Simpson, author of Anti-Gay, Male Impersonators, and Metrosexy

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Tags

sex, homsexuality, michel foucault

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Review by: Marc Horne on Sep. 08, 2011 :
Intelligent fiction that is somehow more true for being set in a parallel universe. Totally recommended.

Cool, thoughful, nouvelle-vague-chic, with more real (if suppressed) emotion than 8 typical novels.
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Review by: Tom Lichtenberg on July 09, 2011 :
A fine feat of imagination, inserting a child into the life of a complex and interesting historical figure. Adding this perspective both brings out the human in that person and highlights his contradictions. I loved the boldness of this approach, and also the excellent writing I've come to take for granted from this very talented author.
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