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Martha Peake
Patrick Mc Grath, Martine Skopan

Calmann-Lévy, 2002

22 reviews
Patrick McGrath, Martine Skopan

Gallimard, 2002

A harrowing novel
In "Spider", Mr McGrath tells the harrowing story of a schizophrenic character called Dennis Cleg. He suffers from hallucinations - visual, auditory and olfactory - and from body delusions, he is physically regressed and has ideas of persecution. At the beginning of the novel, set in 1957, he lives in a shabby house along with other tenants, a "cargo of dead souls" as he calls the place, the ...