The Man Who Walked Away

Maud Casey

Aga 2014 · Bloomsbury Publishing

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In a trance-like state, Albert walks – from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia – all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he's left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images.

Loosely based on the case history of Albert Dadas, a psychiatric patient in the hospital of St. André in Bordeaux in the nineteenth century, The Man Who Walked Away imagines Albert's wanderings and the anguish that caused him to seek treatment with a doctor who would create a diagnosis for him, a narrative for his pain.

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Maud Casey is the author of two novels, The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable Book, and Genealogy, a New York Times Editor's Choice Book; and a collection of stories, Drastic. She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize and fellowships from the Fundación Valparaíso, Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, Château de Lavigny, the Passa Porta residency at Villa Hellebosch and the Dora Maar House. Maud Casey is an Associate Professor of English and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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