The Death of Francis Bacon explained

The Death of Francis Bacon
Author:Max Porter
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Publisher:Faber and Faber
Pub Date:7 January 2021[1]
Pages:74[2]
Isbn:9780571366514
Preceded By:Lanny
Followed By:Shy

The Death of Francis Bacon is a novella by Max Porter about Francis Bacon, published in 2021.[3] [4] [5] It is a reimagining of Bacon's deathbed thoughts, in his final six days in April 1992, in a Madrid hospital, alone except for a hospice nun.[6] [7]

The Death of Francis Bacon mixes prose and poetry experimentally.[8] [9] [10] It is a "brief, fragmentary book [. . .] divided into seven chapters of no more than eight small pages."[11] According to Liam Pieper writing in The Sydney Morning Herald, "at about 6000 words, it's something between a short story and a long, messy poem."[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Inglis . Kiri . 2020-10-20 . Announcing Max Porter's The Death of Francis Bacon Journal . 2023-11-05 . Faber . en-US.
  2. Web site: Freeman . Laura . 2021-01-07 . Paint in the bloodstream: The Death of Francis Bacon, by Max Porter, reviewed . 2023-11-04 . The Spectator . en-US.
  3. Web site: 2021-01-16 . The Death of Francis Bacon: The passion of an artist on his deathbed . 2023-11-04 . www.independent.ie . en.
  4. News: The Death of Francis Bacon: Max Porter's masterpiece in miniature . 2023-11-04 . The Irish Times . en.
  5. Web site: Thomas-Corr . Johanna . 2021-01-13 . Max Porter's The Death of Francis Bacon: a novelist takes on the painter's final days . 2023-11-04 . New Statesman . en-US.
  6. https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/book-review-the-death-of-francis-bacon-by-max-porter-3083839
  7. Web site: Liu . Max . 2021-01-07 . The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter is too slight to be truly rewarding . 2023-11-04 . inews.co.uk . en.
  8. News: Saunders . Tristram Fane . 2021-01-02 . The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter, review: cruel, funny and grotesque . en-GB . The Telegraph . 2023-11-04 . 0307-1235.
  9. News: Marczynski . Joe . 2021-09-09 . A Writer's Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-11-04 . 0362-4331.
  10. Web site: Solomon . Kat . 2021-09-22 . Searching for Artifice in "The Death of Francis Bacon" . 2023-11-06 . Chicago Review of Books . en-US.
  11. News: Adams . Tim . 2020-12-29 . The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter review – last rites for a great artist . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-11-04 . 0261-3077.
  12. Web site: Pieper . Liam . 2021-02-19 . A playfully pretentious reimagining of Bacon's final days . 2023-11-04 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.

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