The Jacques Lacan Foundation
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- Paperback published on 31/03/2022
- Page count: 198 pages
- ISBN: 9781913430085
Synopsis
It's fall (or autumn) 2018. The Trump administration wants to fortify the United States-Mexico border, Robert 'Beto' O'Rourke is running for Senate, and British grifter Nicki Smith has just secured a "low-paid glamour job" at the University of Texas' Jacques Lacan Foundation. In between sleeping with the air-conditioning repair guy (or man) and watching Kate Moss make-up commercials (or advertisements) Nicki completes the first ever American-English translation of Lacan's newly discovered and highly controversial notebook - without knowing any French. An Anglo-American comedy of manners about identity and class, The Jacques Lacan Foundation reveals - and revels in -the numerous pretensions that surround academia and authorship, and the institutions that foster them. --
About the author
SUSAN FINLAY writes cultural criticism, poetry, and fiction. Her latest novel, The Jacques Lacan Foundation, received glowing reviews in UK magazines Prospect, Tribune, and WORMS, and was a White Review Book of the Year. You can also read about her recent (anti-)memoir, The Lives of the Artists, in Berlin Art Link, Crack Magazine, The Arts Desk, The Glasgow Review of Books, and The Irish Times. Plus there's a very nice article on the books that influenced it in Frieze.
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