My Manservant and Me

A madcap tale of sadistic power-play by one of the 20th century`s most beloved French gay writers. My Manservant and Me is a story about the trials and tribulations of having a live-in valet. Written from the uneasy perspective of an aging, incontinent author of extremely successful middlebrow plays, we learn about his manservant, a young film actor who is easily moved to both delicate gestures and terrible tantrums; who`s been authorized to handle his master`s finances, who orders stock buys, dictates his master`s wardrobe, sleeps in his master`s bed, and yet won`t let him watch variety television. My Manservant and Me reveals the rude specificities of this relationship with provocative humor and stylistic abjection. This manservant won`t be going anywhere.