David Foenkinos is a rising star of French literature, the author of six novels and two comic books. He studied literature at the Sorbonne, played jazz, taught guitar, and calculated—successfully!—the erotic potential of his character’s wife. He is the only writer in the world through whose novels two Poles mysteriously wander.
After Foenkinos’s novel “The Erotic Potential of My Wife” was warmly received by Russian critics, Azbuka Publishing offers you “Inside-Out Idiotism”: a sentimental adventure novel. One fine day, a new Prince Myshkin appears in the center of Paris. His name is Konrad; he is the nephew (or perhaps a false nephew!) of the famous writer Milan Kundera. The characters of this irony-permeated novel compete for the right to dispose of his time and attention. But what does Konrad himself want? And who is he, after all: a sage intoxicated by the harmony of the world, or an eternal child whose naivety borders on idiocy? And anyway—what are those two Poles with a movie camera doing here?!