The Man in Flames

Author: Serge Filippini

Translator: Liz Nash  

"A fiction based on the life of a real person is always a difficult reconstruction, but Filippini succeeds in evoking the tense atmosphere of the period as well as the intellectual dilemmas and emotional traumas. His descriptions of sexual brutality are as finely observed as the lyrical passages of homosexual love."
Tariq Ali in The Financial Times