Lithopedion

Lithopedion (from the Greek words lithos [stone] and paedion [child]) is a short novel that obscures the boundaries between philosophical fiction and psychological thriller. Taking place in Northern France during an unspecified era of time, it consists of two parts: an assemblage of hypothetical memoirs from an unnamed, secluded, and paradoxical personage who evidently suffers from senility, delusions and maladjustment, documenting his entanglements with the horrors of his past and crushing...