This autobiographical fiction offers an intimate and unsettling account of Blecher’s ideas of self-identity and the body. He explores the ‘crisis of unreality’ in relation to the human condition and shares his adolescent experiences of physical infirmity, social isolation and sexual awakening. Cover Art and Colour Section Anca Boeriu is one of Romania’s leading artists and is influenced by human bodies that are in a state of tension. There is a clear relationship between Boeriu’s art and Blecher’s condition which left him incapacitated for the last 10 years of his life.