A Madman's Confession

Author: André Barson
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: Belgian Literature Classics Translation Series. The Confessions of a Madman depicts the everyday life of an ordinary person. The entire novel is set from the perspective of the inner monologue of Jean Martin, a schizoaffective patient in a psychiatric hospital. Through the questioning of a psychologist, he begins to recall his memories. In remorse, in the helplessness of fighting against life, and in the entanglement with the women he loved and should not have loved, he gradually slides into madness. For him, life becomes an unbearable test, and the only protection is the irony and accusation directed at himself and others.