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Fou
“'Fou' combines eroticism and hilarity with enviable panache … a boundlessly entertaining novel.”
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
“This novel is clever, crisply phrased and readable. It convinces the reader that the mind is capable of the most determined efforts to rewrite history.”
TIME OUT
“Chris Wilson’s free-wheeling, friskily rhetorical style generates a fine comic exuberance.”
SUNDAY TIMES
“A fiction of highly coloured fragments … an intricately patterned fable.”
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
“This is Wilson at his best.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH
With a sharp-tongued, bitter-sweet nostalgia, from her attic in Islington, sustained by cognac and crisps, Liselotte Berg recounts her golden youth. Actress, sublime beauty, analysand of Freud and model for Kokoshka, Klimt, and Schiele, confidante of writers, kleptomaniac, drunk and multiple personality, her story is full of sharp wit and verve. What secret shame surrounds her cousin Felix’s nose? Whatever happened to her innocence? Why were her lovers so often named Carl or Gustav? Why did she spill mayonnaise on Franz Kafka’s manuscripts? Did she really help cause two world wars? Poignant, quirky and sparkling, 'Fou' is an erotic tragi-comedy and psychological mystery, set against the decadence, extravagance and perversity of 'fin de siècle' Vienna.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
“This novel is clever, crisply phrased and readable. It convinces the reader that the mind is capable of the most determined efforts to rewrite history.”
TIME OUT
“Chris Wilson’s free-wheeling, friskily rhetorical style generates a fine comic exuberance.”
SUNDAY TIMES
“A fiction of highly coloured fragments … an intricately patterned fable.”
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
“This is Wilson at his best.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH
With a sharp-tongued, bitter-sweet nostalgia, from her attic in Islington, sustained by cognac and crisps, Liselotte Berg recounts her golden youth. Actress, sublime beauty, analysand of Freud and model for Kokoshka, Klimt, and Schiele, confidante of writers, kleptomaniac, drunk and multiple personality, her story is full of sharp wit and verve. What secret shame surrounds her cousin Felix’s nose? Whatever happened to her innocence? Why were her lovers so often named Carl or Gustav? Why did she spill mayonnaise on Franz Kafka’s manuscripts? Did she really help cause two world wars? Poignant, quirky and sparkling, 'Fou' is an erotic tragi-comedy and psychological mystery, set against the decadence, extravagance and perversity of 'fin de siècle' Vienna.
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
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About the author
Christopher Wilson
9 books15 followersChristopher Wilson has written several novels, including - Gallimauf's Gospel, Baa, Blueglass, Mischief, Fou, The Wurd, The Ballad of Lee Cotton, Nookie, and The Zoo. His work has been translated into several languages, adapted for the stage, long-listed for the Booker Prize, twice shortlisted for the Whitbread Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the Historical Writers Association Gold Crown.
Chris wrote a doctorate on the psychology of humour at The London School of Economics, worked as a research psychologist at University College London, The London Hospital and The Arts Council, and lectured for ten years at London University Goldsmiths College. He has taught creative writing in prisons, at university and for The Arvon Foundation.
Chris wrote a doctorate on the psychology of humour at The London School of Economics, worked as a research psychologist at University College London, The London Hospital and The Arts Council, and lectured for ten years at London University Goldsmiths College. He has taught creative writing in prisons, at university and for The Arvon Foundation.
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