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The Purloined Clinic by Janet Malcolm

The Purloined Clinic

Selected Writings

Selected Writings

By Janet Malcolm

By Janet Malcolm

By Janet Malcolm

By Janet Malcolm

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Nov 02, 1993 | ISBN 9780679748106

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    About The Purloined Clinic

    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

    About The Purloined Clinic

    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

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    Reading Chekhov
    The Crime of Sheila McGough
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    The Journalist and the Murderer
    Psychoanalysis
    See all books by Janet Malcolm

    About 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… More about Janet Malcolm

    About 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… More about Janet Malcolm

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Collections | Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 02, 1993 | 400 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679748106

    Category: Literary Collections | Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 23, 2013 | 400 Pages | ISBN 9780307830609

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    Praise

    "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

    Table Of Contents

    Preface

    Part I

    Dora
    Six Roses ou Cirrhose?
    The Patient Is Always Right
    The Seven-Minute Hour

    Part II

    The Quarterly Affair
    What Maisie Didn’t Know
    School of the Blind
    A Problem of Growth
    Schneebaum’s Confession
    Wolfe in Wolfe’s Clothing
    The Purloined Clinic
    Kundera’s Legerdemain
    The Trial of Alyosha

    Part III

    The One-Way Mirror
    A Girl of the Zeitgeist
    The Window Washer

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