For seventeen years, Narcisse Dieze, 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 naive 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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