Habeas corpus

'In many respects, what this novel offers us is a thought experiment in which the charm of fiction is combined with the most dizzying reflection.' William Marx, professor of comparative literature at the Collège de France and author of Un été avec Don Quichotte. Lionel Naccache is the author of a body of essays which, since *Le Nouvel Inconscient* published in 2006, have revolutionised our understanding of consciousness and subjectivity by highlighting the profound links that exist between our stream of consciousness and fiction. In this new book, which opens on the International Space Station, he steps through the looking glass and offers us a fabulous story about, precisely, our mental fictions. A novel--or indeed an autofiction--based on Lionel Naccache's own work, Habeas corpus brings to life, in a fast-paced narrative, the ideas that wander, like characters, through his books.