Paul Ableman's modern masterpiece was first published by the Olympia
Press of 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 honesty in this vision of the fragmentation of contemporary
life. This Faber Finds edition of I Hear Voices includes a preface by
Margaret Drabble: her obituary for Paul Ableman, who died in 2006.
'The book, not excluding Lolita, which gave me the greatest pride and
pleasure to publish.' Maurice Girodias'A strikingly fresh and original
work of art...
The writing is brilliant; both terrifying and
hilariously funny.' Philip Toynbee, Observer 'Subtle, humorous,
clinically authentic.' Times Literary Supplement
I Hear Voices - Paul Ableman & Margaret Drabble
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