Unknown conversations with Francis Bacon about art, life, poetry, drama, pain, and death - for the first time in German! Francis Bacon is consistently astonishing and inspiring. This applies to both his art and the interviews he has given. Here we present an extraordinary conversation: In the 1980s, a French art historian, who is also a writer - thus an artist in his own right - sat across from the artist, a man who had long been part of the rock and underground scene in Paris. The two understand each other very well. Since Franck Maubert is well-versed in literature, the conversation quickly takes that direction. Bacon speaks of his profound love for dramatists such as Aeschylus, Shakespeare, and Racine, as well as poets like Federico García Lorca, William Butler Yeats, and T. S. Eliot. The works of these authors are his life.