Rieff David - Divorcing - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Divorcing
Author(s): Rieff David
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681374949
Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Date: 10/27/2020
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction