monomaniac

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Despite his fervour, anchoritic existence and frequent depiction as one-part Don Quixote, one-part Antoni Gaudí and one-part monomaniac, Gallego is very aware of how he is seen in the town and beyond.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2017

Reading Kronman’s “Confessions,” I wondered if its author would be like Mr. Casaubon, from “Middlemarch”—a pale, stooped, carrel-dwelling monomaniac who lives entirely in his mind.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 16, 2017

“I’m a monomaniac, that’s clear,” he told People.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2016

Chris Christie, who could theoretically be president someday, is a monomaniac.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2015

Some hours later I saw the monomaniac stealthily creeping back among the rocks.

From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by Landor, A. H. Savage