Orinally published by the now-defunct Starcherone Books, and widely reviewed, all rights to this ebook reverted to the author and its is now again evailable in as an ebook. Starcherone's original summary read as follows:
"Joyce is part of a revolution in narrative form."-Newsweek" Dawn it is, to be sure. The granddaddy of full-length hypertext fiction is Michael Joyce's landmark Afternoon"-Robert Coover, The New York Times Book Review Michel Foucault famously wrote, "I am fully aware that I have never written anything other than fictions." In this polylingual, operatic fantasy comprised of invented letters, most of them unsent, set in Sweden during February 1956 while Foucault was undergoing a Swedish winter, the philosopher finds himself not just researching, but living through, his work to come, Madness and Civilization"