The Death of Francis Bacon
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| Author | Max Porter |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | 7 January 2021[1] |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| 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]
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