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Narcisse on a Tightrope

By: Olivier Targowla

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Narcisse on a Tightrope

By: Olivier Targowla

For seventeen years, Narcisse Dièze, chronic sufferer of a mysterious condition called "cerebral rheumatism"; has lived in the protective confines of a psychiatric hospital. There he has been attended by a contingent of nurses, for whom he has obligingly fathered somewhere between thirty-five and one hundred seventy-one children. (No one knows the exact number.) But the doctors abruptly decide that he is cured and prod him to reenter the outside world. Narcisse is floored, yet he gradually summons the will to try. What follows is an account of this naïve and timid patient’s adventures in the realm of the so-called sane. An endearing misfit in the tradition of Walter Mitty and Forrest Gump, Narcisse is destined to totter precariously on the highwire of his existence. Will we see him fall? A quirky fable that pokes holes in the accepted mental health verities and pleads for a touch of madness. With an introduction by Warren Motte.

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Narcisse on a Tightrope

By: Olivier Targowla

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Narcisse on a Tightrope

By: Olivier Targowla

For seventeen years, Narcisse Di ze, a chronic sufferer of a mysterious condition called "cerebral rheumatism," has lived in the protective wing of a mental hospital. Here he has been attended to by a bevy of nurses, with whom he has fathered a number of children (somewhere between thirty-five and one hundred and seventy-one; he can never arrive at the exact figure). But now, suddenly, the doctors have decided that he is cured, and that it is time for him to reenter the outside world. Narcisse is somewhat flustered, to say the least. What follows is an account of this middle-aged patient's adventures in the realm of the so-called sane. Narcisse must stumble long and hard before he learns to walk the tightrope the rest of us take for granted. Summoning the whimsy of Walser and the anomie of Goncharov's Oblomov, Targowla has created a character for the ages. With an introduction by Warren Motte.

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