Name: Divorcing
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Author: David Rieff
ISBN: 9781681374949

Type

Physical Book

Author

Susan Taubes

Introduction by

David Rieff

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN13

9781681374949

Synopsis "Divorcing"

Now back in print for the first time since 1969, a stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the twentieth century. Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorce is not just a question of a broken marriage but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of Sophie Blind, its brilliant but desperate protagonist. Can the rift be mended? Perhaps in the form of a novel, one that goes back from present-day New York to Sophie's childhood in pre-World War II Budapest, that revisits the divorce between her Freudian father and her fickle mother, and finds a place for a host of further tensions and contradictions in her present life. The question that haunts Divorcing, however, is whether any novel can be fleet and bitter and true and light enough to gather up all the darkness of a given life. Susan Taubes's startlingly original novel was published in 1969 but largely ignored at the time; after the author's tragic early death, it was forgotten. Its republication presents a chance to discover a splintered, glancing, caustic, and lyrical work by a dazzlingly intense and inventive writer.

David Rieff

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David Rieff (Boston, 1952), licenciado en Historia por la Universidad de Princeton, es analista político, periodista y crítico cultural. Sus artículos se han publicado en importantes medios como The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, El País o Letras Libres. Es autor de los ensayos Una cama para una noche (2003); Crímenes de guerra (en colaboración con Roy Gutman 2003); A punta de pistola (2007); Un mar de muerte (2008), sobre la muerte de su madre, Susan Sontag; El oprobio del hambre (2016); Elogio del olvido (2017), y, recientemente, Deseo y Destino. Lo woke, el ocaso de la cultura y la victoria de lo kitsch (2025).

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