Confessions of a barjo

Confessions of a barjo is one of the rare novels of Philip K. Dick which does not belong to the field of the Science-fiction. It was published in the the United States under the title of Confessions off has Crap Artist in 1975 by Entwhistle Books (New York). This novel appears for the first time in France with the editions Robert Laffont in 1978 in a translation of Janine Hérisson . In 1992, it is published out of pocket with the editions 10/18, collection “Field foreign”. It also appears under the title Portrait of the artist as an insane young person .

Summary

Jack Isidore is simple of spirit. Collector of eccentric objects and strange phenomena, it spends more time to index and studying “scientifically” the disconcerting events that to deal with its own life.

Here it is taken soon charges some by Fay, his/her sister and Charley, her brother-in-law. Lodged in their large house of the surroundings of San Francisco, he quickly becomes the slave of Fay, deals of his children, his household, his animals. Under its childish glance, the varnish of the model family is erased quickly. Charley beats his wife, Fay proves to be a woman extravagant, insensitive, incompetent to be interested in any other person that itself. And when Charley is found confined to bed in a hospital of San Francisco following an heart attack, Jack is the only one to take in hand the large house while his/her sister starts to maintain a relation with Nathan, a young student married coldly installed in the area.

Adaptation

The novel was the subject of a film adaptation: Confessions of a barjo , French film of Jerome Boivin, with Hippolyte Girardot, left in 1992.

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