The Purloined Clinic
Selected Writings
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1994
Summary
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 self-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 aga…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679748106 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679748105 |
| Author: | Janet Malcolm |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1994 |
| Weight: | 329g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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“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
About The Author
Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm is an author and a journalist at The New Yorker. Her books include Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Born in Prague, she grew up in New York and lives there now with her husband, Gardner Botsford.
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