Pariah genius : John Deakin and the Soho Court around Francis Bacon : a psychobiographic fiction / Iain Sinclair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinclair, Iain, 1943- Author.

Contributor:

Deakin, John, 1912-1972, Photographer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deakin, John, 1912-1972--Fiction.

Deakin, John.

Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992--Fiction.

Bacon, Francis.

Photographers--Fiction.

Photographers.

Soho (London, England)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Soho (London, England).

London (England)--20th century--Fiction.

London (England).

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : Cheerio, 2024.

Summary:

"In Pariah Genius, literary giant Iain Sinclair follows in the footsteps of photographer John Deakin, whose chronicles of Soho life - and the world of Francis Bacon and his friends - have so influenced our perception of that generation's work. In this bold fictionalisation, Sinclair enters the underworld of Deakin's life and imagination, pursuing his subject across continents, in dive bars, and bedrooms. The result is an engrossing, utterly unique portrait of a man who some felt was a fallen angel, and others, the devil himself."-- Provided by vendor.

Writing of this book was initially based on "seventeen albums of Deakin's photographs ... which" could be "viewed as a 'serial autobiography in images'. The original aim was to write a non-fiction biography, but the book began to take on the form of a novel, with a narrator emerging to follow Deakin with his camera ... into Soho, the 'malicious world of Francis Bacon's court', and across the Continent to Paris, Rome and Athens."--An online review, https://brianhuman.co.uk/wp/photography-in-fiction-pariah-genius-iain-sinclair/

Contents:

(from table of contents) (San Michele)

(Exhibitions). Man and beast

(Origins and actions). Notorious jewel

1949: From the graveyard on

1942: Malta

1945: Africa speaks in Manchester

1947: Stag fashion

(Sea of boiling blood). Art crap, poetry crap

David Archer and the poets

No man's land

(High salvage in Soho). At the purple court of Bacon

Last supper at lunchtime

The folk upstairs

Man on the bed

Broken doll

(Mabuse in Mexico)

(Deakin as psychogeographer). Narrow street

Waterman's arms

(Abroad). Paris to Athens

Interzone Tangier

Voyage into Italy

Strangers on a train

(The French house). Tarnished angels

(Nightfishing). I fort we wus goin' to Brighton

Brighton rock.

ISBN:

9781739440534

1739440536

OCLC:

1441780674