Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Paul Ableman's modern masterpiece was published in Paris in 1958 to instant acclaim.
The narrator of I Hear Voices is a young schizophrenic who transports himself, and the reader, through a wondrously transfigured city where the real and the fantastic blend together in a seamless enchantment. The continual stream and buzz of events is often comical, occasionally wrenching, and always unpredictable. Encounters with Miss Carpet, The Commissioner, Merkitt and Mrs Oil, among others, are filled with poignant satire and disquieting honest in this vision of the fragmentation of contemporary life.
'The book, not excluding Lolita, which gave me the greatest pride and pleasure to publish.' Maurice Girodias
'Subtle, humorous, clinically authentic.' Times Literary Supplement