A psychiatrist is counting down toward his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family. Often, he resorts to drawing bird caricatures of his patients instead of taking notes. His social life consists of brief conversations with his meticulous secretary, Madame Surrugue, who has reigned over the clinic for more than thirty years. The two of them have no relationship outside the office, where everything runs smoothly and uneventfully. Until one day, that is, when a young German woman called Agatha arrives and demands to see the doctor, and he soon realizes that underneath her fragile exterior is a strong and fascinating woman. The doctor and Agatha embark upon a course of therapy together, a process that forces the doctor to confront his fear of true intimacy outside the clinic. But is it too late to reconsider your existence as a seventy-one-year-old?--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 839.813/8
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Translation of: Agathe Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781771666473 1771666455
- LCCN
- PT8177.12.O43
- LCCN Item number
- A713 2020eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (154 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00241357 (OCoLC)1162871916 (CaOOCEL)459306
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Praise for Agatha 2
- Maths 10
- Panes 11
- Traces 14
- Uproar 19
- Growing pains 23
- Agatha I 29
- The invisible friend 36
- Agatha II 39
- Water lilies 42
- Agatha III 46
- Between us 50
- Agatha IV 54
- The letter 57
- Agatha V 61
- The looking glass 65
- Tchaikovsky 68
- Agatha VI 71
- The deaf, the mute, and the blind 75
- The visit 78
- Astray 82
- Agatha VII 87
- Where death is 91
- Agatha VIII 97
- Snow 100
- Agatha IX 105
- Love 108
- The decision 112
- Coffee 117
- Agatha X 121
- Swimming 125
- Little things 127
- Clearing out 131
- Agatha XI 137
- Figure/background 142
- Peace 145
- Home 150
- Agatha XII 153
