02903nam a22003017a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260722152023.0 ta 260511s2020 nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781681374949 1681374943 eng DLC eng PS 3570 T222d 2020 Taubes, Susan, 1928-1969 48366 Divorcing / Susan Taubes ; introduction by David Rieff. New York : The New York Review of Books, 2020 265 pages ; 20 cm New York Review Books classics Originally published in 1969. "A stunning novel about childhood, marriage, and divorce by one of the most interesting minds of the 20th century, now back in print for the first time since 1969. Sophie Blind is starting a new life. She has left her husband Ezra and taken her three children to Paris. She has lovers there and another in New York. She is lecturing and writing. And she is compulsively reviewing her own history, having resumed the "lifelong struggle" of "coming into consciousness." The task of reclaiming her existence is all the more urgent because, even as Sophie Blind undertakes this necessary transformation-Sophie Blind is dead. Dream and reality overlap in Divorcing, a book in which divorcing is not just a matter of marital collapse but names a rift that runs right through the inner and outer worlds of 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 her 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 of Sophie's life now. 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; after the author's tragic early death, it was forgotten. Its republication presents a chance to rediscover a dazzling intense and inventive writer whose work in many ways anticipates the fragmentary, glancing, lyrical novels that Renata Adler and Elizabeth Hardwick would write in the 1970s" 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. Literatura estadounidense 1025 Novela autobiográfica 29739 Rieff, David 49765 writer of introduction. New York Review Books classics 29199 lcc BK cmc 127036 127036 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2026-05-11 0 PS 3570 T222d 2020 00000199776 2026-05-11 09:42:00 1 2026-05-11 BK