Author | Max Porter |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | 7 January 2021 [1] |
Pages | 74 [2] |
ISBN | 9780571366514 |
Preceded by | Lanny |
Followed by | Shy |
The Death of Francis Bacon is a novella by Max Porter about Francis Bacon, published in 2021. [3] [4] [5] It is a reimagining of Bacon's deathbed thoughts, in his final six days in April 1992, in a Madrid hospital, alone except for a hospice nun. [6] [7]
The Death of Francis Bacon mixes prose and poetry experimentally. [8] [9] [10] It is a "brief, fragmentary book [. . .] divided into seven chapters of no more than eight small pages." [11] According to Liam Pieper writing in The Sydney Morning Herald, "at about 6000 words, it's something between a short story and a long, messy poem." [12]
Author | Max Porter |
---|---|
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | 7 January 2021 [1] |
Pages | 74 [2] |
ISBN | 9780571366514 |
Preceded by | Lanny |
Followed by | Shy |
The Death of Francis Bacon is a novella by Max Porter about Francis Bacon, published in 2021. [3] [4] [5] It is a reimagining of Bacon's deathbed thoughts, in his final six days in April 1992, in a Madrid hospital, alone except for a hospice nun. [6] [7]
The Death of Francis Bacon mixes prose and poetry experimentally. [8] [9] [10] It is a "brief, fragmentary book [. . .] divided into seven chapters of no more than eight small pages." [11] According to Liam Pieper writing in The Sydney Morning Herald, "at about 6000 words, it's something between a short story and a long, messy poem." [12]