Francis Bacon’s Armchair Poetry Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) was perhaps

Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) was perhaps the strangest and most inventive writer of the Latin American "Boom

In the tradition of Italo Calvino

For five years

John Barth: A Body of Words is a bit of a chimera: a tripartite hybrid of tributes and reminiscences from friends

and wide erudition

Francis Bacon’s Armchair Poetry Severo Sarduy (1937-1993) was perhapsThe unnamed narrator of Francis Bacons Armchair has just been released from an extended stay at a psychi atric hospital and now has only one objective: to shut himself away in his apartment and contemplate the best way to restart his life. But his obsession with Cath ie, a young woman he met during his convalescence, drives him out of his bedroom one night in search of a telephonewhich leads him two floors below into the apartment of his morbidly