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​​​​“Knowing and playful, fresh and funny, The Jacques Lacan Foundation is both an affectionate satire and a wily celebration of bibliophilia, intellectual glamour, and the institutionalised life of the mind.”
Rob Doyle


​“Laugh-out-loud funny ... a wonderfully absurd plot ... a wild ride, wearing its intelligence lightly while still performing a detailed critique of a world where politics, capitalism and image-making are almost indistinguishable."
Peter Salmon,  ​Prospect Magazine


“Absolute and unremitting irony ... ice-cube cold.”
Times Literary Supplement
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​​"Sick! In a good way."
Stephanie LaCava

The incredible sustained moire effect carried off with such aplomb in Susan Finlay's The Jacques Lacan Foundation - really enjoyable."
Tony White
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​​“The Jacques Lacan Foundation is highly recommended. Imagine a working-class Fleabag astray in Malcolm Bradbury’s Mensonge. But in hipsterland Texas!"
Andrew Gallix

The Jacques Lacan Foundation is linguistically Nabakovian, it's got Babitz-esque charm, it's experimental, it's satirical, it's fucking hilarious... Destined to become a cult classic."
Book Talk


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The Jacques Lacan Foundation is perfectly mordant ... I love how this gorgeous, raucous novel delights in ruffling anyone’s – including its own – desire to be ‘an authentic something’.”
Daisy Lafarge



​You can also read an extract in 3:AM Magazine. 
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​Published by MOIST, 2022