The Jacques Lacan Foundation

Susan Finlay

2022

Artist Novel, 19 x 12 cm, 198 p., language: English, publisher: Moist, Nottingham.
Materials: ink, paper

Collection: M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2031/771).

Literary synopsis

It’s fall (or autumn) 2018. The Trump administration wants to fortify the United States-Mexico border, Robert ‘Beto’ O'Rourke is running for Senate, and British grifter Lettuce Croydon-Smyth (formerly Nicki Smith from Croydon) has just secured a “low-paid glamour job” at the University of Texas’ Jacques Lacan Foundation. In between sleeping with the air-conditioning repair guy (or man) and watching Kate Moss make-up commercials (or advertisements) Nicki completes the first ever American-English translation of Lacan’s newly discovered and highly controversial notebook – without knowing any French. An Anglo-American comedy of manners about identity and class The Jacques Lacan Foundation reveals—and revels in—the numerous pretentions that surround academia and authorship, and the institutions that foster them.

 

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