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The Death of Francis Bacon
AuthorMax Porter
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFaber and Faber
Publication date
7 January 2021[1]
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Pages74[2]
ISBN9780571366514
Preceded byLanny 
Followed byShy 

The Death of Francis Bacon is a novella by Max Porter about Francis Bacon, published in 2021.[3][4][5] It is a reimagining of Bacon's deathbed thoughts, in his final six days in April 1992, in a Madrid hospital, alone except for a hospice nun.[6][7]

The Death of Francis Bacon mixes prose and poetry experimentally.[8][9][10] It is a "brief, fragmentary book [. . .] divided into seven chapters of no more than eight small pages."[11] According to Liam Pieper writing in The Sydney Morning Herald, "at about 6000 words, it's something between a short story and a long, messy poem."[12]

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  1. ^ Inglis, Kiri (20 October 2020). "Announcing Max Porter's The Death of Francis Bacon | Journal". Faber. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  2. ^ Freeman, Laura (7 January 2021). "Paint in the bloodstream: The Death of Francis Bacon, by Max Porter, reviewed". The Spectator. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  3. ^ "The Death of Francis Bacon: The passion of an artist on his deathbed". www.independent.ie. 16 January 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  4. ^ "The Death of Francis Bacon: Max Porter's masterpiece in miniature". The Irish Times. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  5. ^ Thomas-Corr, Johanna (13 January 2021). "Max Porter's The Death of Francis Bacon: a novelist takes on the painter's final days". New Statesman. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  6. ^ https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/book-review-the-death-of-francis-bacon-by-max-porter-3083839
  7. ^ Liu, Max (7 January 2021). "The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter is too slight to be truly rewarding". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  8. ^ Saunders, Tristram Fane (2 January 2021). "The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter, review: cruel, funny and grotesque". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  9. ^ Marczynski, Joe (9 September 2021). "A Writer's Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  10. ^ Solomon, Kat (22 September 2021). "Searching for Artifice in "The Death of Francis Bacon"". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  11. ^ Adams, Tim (29 December 2020). "The Death of Francis Bacon by Max Porter review – last rites for a great artist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  12. ^ Pieper, Liam (19 February 2021). "A playfully pretentious reimagining of Bacon's final days". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 November 2023.


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