Still Pictures: On Photography And Memory Janet Malcolm Granta Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays Literary Reference

For Decades Janet Malcolm\ S Books And Dispatches The New Yorker Have Poked Prodded At Biographical Convention Gesturing Towards Artifice That Underpins Both Public Private Selves Here Malcolm Turns Her Gimlet Eye On Own Life Examining Twelve Family Photographs To Construct A Memoir From Camera-Caught Moments Each Of Which Pose Questions Their She Begins With Picture Morose Young Girl Train Leaving Prague Age Five In 1939 There We Follow Czech Enclave Yorkville Manhattan Where Father Psychiatrist Neurologist Mother An Attorney Bourgeois Traded Bohemian Dada-Inflected Lives Ambitions Middle-Class America Early Fitful Loves Evenings Old Metropolitan Opera House Fascination What It Might Mean Be \ Bad Assembles Composite Portrait York Childhood One Never Escaped Tug Europe Mysteries Fate Later Delves Into Marriage Gardner Botsford World William Shawn\ Libel Trial Led Become Character Drama Displaying Sharp Wit Astute Commentary Are Malcolmian Trademarks This Brief Volume Develops Like No Other Σελίδες: 176 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm