Description
The Power of Flies begins in a courtroom, where a man is undergoing an interrogation. He has committed a crime, and he must now explain himself. But instead of letting the judge, lawyer, and psychiatrist question him, he asks himself all the questions--and answers them. While ranting on to the court about various topics--his family, the museum where he works as a tour guide, and even the French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal--the narrator of The Power of Flies reveals himself to be both calculating and unstable. In this latest novel from acclaimed French writer Lydie Salvayre, it is up to the reader to sort through his philosophical diatribe to discover why this man turned killer.
Author: Lydie Salvayre
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 11/01/2007
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.06h x 6.48w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781564784209
ISBN10: 1564784207
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General
About the Author
Lydie Salvayre is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist.