Skull of Patrick Declerck

Psychoanalyst, anthropologist and writer, Patrick Declerck tells this operation in a singular and magnificent book in the third person.

Skull recounts the brain operation practiced on Alexandre Nacht, a double autobiographical of Patrick Declerck, in order to withdraw most of a tumor that had threatened him for years. Several hours intervention, woken up and open skull. High risks-limited experience that the author describes here, step by step: the hospital, the doctors, his own body, this enemy who now seems to him foreign, and his rage to want to survive anyway.
In Skull, through Nacht his hero, Patrick Declerck is observed, weighs the world, and meditates this surgical aggression at the very siege of his thought.
Patrick Declerck, melancholy, but also biting and funny, makes a skull a literary act, protest against the human condition. The tenderness of a human approaching authentic, in all his freedom of language, to think and his irrepressible desire to continue to be able to speak.

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