John Burnside, novelist and poet, was born in Scotland in 1955. In A Lie About My Father, he brings his tyrannical father, a compulsive liar and violent alcoholic, back to life. Through this startling portrait, he revisits the torments of his own childhood and his time spent in a psychiatric home. With this dazzling book about lies, father-son relations and identity, John Burnside once again reveals the full extent of his talent. A true masterpiece!

Bibliography: Un mensonge sur mon père (Métailié )

John Burnside will participate in:
« Writing and identity? What room for psychology? » , round-table, Sunday 31 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

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