With its enigmatic title, Folie dans les folies (Madness within madness), this handsome book presents a fascinating face-off between two artists who share a common interest: Martin Jarrie, a painter accustomed to the shores of the strange, and Hervé Le Tellier, a writer.

Dr H. M. Tavernier, honorary director of the B wing of a psychiatric institute and a specialist in innovative ‘archtherapy’, introduces us to his establishment and its patients, all of whom have a close connection with architecture, and comments on the drawings of imaginary buildings they have produced during their cures. Under the auspices of pataphysics (Queneau, Jarry and… Lacan), Hervé Le Tellier presents these residents in tragi-comic micro-fictions, exercises in style and madcap humour, in which troubled and unusual destinies take shape.

Hervé Le Tellier gives sanctuary to Martin Jarrie’s fantasy boarders: a gallery of stunning portraits.

Join us on Tuesday 12 November from 6pm for a book signing with Martin Jarrie and Hervé Le Tellier!

Free admission, no booking required.

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