I forgot how beautiful this novel is. That’s not surprising considering it’s been over a decade since I read it and I’m honestly not sure if this is my original copy or if I picked up a new one in the past few years. [Can now confirm this is my original – I brought it to Boston in December 2012.]
I remember when I first read this. I had spent a semester studying the history of sexuality in America and we read many passages from Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality and I was obsessed. Between it and the other readings we read that term, a whole new world around sexuality, gender identity, and philosophy had opened up to me. So, more than likely I typed Foucault into Amazon and this came up and I purchased it.
Continue reading “Book 792: Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker”
And this just goes to show what happens when you have to eat your words. At the end of my review for 
After finishing 
I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would when I requested it.*
As I mentioned in my