THE PURLOINED CLINIC - Couverture souple

Malcolm, Janet

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679748105 ISBN 13 : 9780679748106

Editeur : Random House, Inc., 2008

Synopsis

The Purloined Clinic One of the country's most elegant and controversial writers presents a collection of her essays, reviews, and profiles, showing the range and depth of her engagement with art, literature, and psychoanalysis and the brilliance of her epigrammatic style. A dazzling representative collection by the journalist whom critic Harold Bloom calls "a calmly rational Alice in Wonderland".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Purloined Clinic is a retrospective of essays, reviews, and reports that reflect the range and depth of Janet Malcolm's engagement with psychology, criticism, art, and literature.

She examines aspects of "that absurdist collaboration," the psychoanalytic dialogue, from which come "small, stray sell recognitions that no other human relationship yields, brought forward under conditions...that no other human relationship could survive." She addresses such subjects as Tom Wolfe's vendetta against modern architecture, Milan Kundera's literary experiments, and Vaclav Havel's prison letters. She explores the somewhat deflated world of post-revolutionary Prague, guides us through the labyrinthine New York art world of the eighties, and takes us behind the one-way mirror of Salvador Minuchin's school of family therapy.And to each subject she brings the incisive skepticism and dazzling epigrammatic style that are her hallmarks.

“Why don’t more people write like [Malcolm]?... She is cast from the mold of the Eastern European intellectual: beholden to modernism. as familiar with Kundera’s exile as she is with Freud’s Vienna. This sensibility must grant her the detachment she sometimes so mercilessly employs, but it also gives her an unassailable passion for getting to the center of things.” — Boston Globe

Revue de presse :

"Why don't more people write like [Malcolm]?... She is cast from the mold of the Eastern European intellectual: beholden to modernism. as familiar with Kundera's exile as she is with Freud's Vienna. This sensibility must grant her the detachment she sometimes so mercilessly employs, but it also gives her an unassailable passion for getting to the center of things."

-- Boston Globe

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Random House, Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0679748105
• ISBN 13: 9780679748106
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400