The Clouds

"What Saer presents marvelously is the experience of reality, and the characters' attempts to write their own narratives within its excess."—Bookforum

In modern—day Paris, Pichón Garay receives a computer disk containing a manuscript—which might be fictional, or could be a memoir—by Doctor Real, a nineteenth—century physician tasked with leading a group of five mental patients on a trip to a recently constructed asylum...