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Purloined Clinic Selected Writings

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ISBN-10: 0679748105

ISBN-13: 9780679748106

Edition: Reprint 

Authors: Janet Malcolm

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/2/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English