Freud's Alphabet: A Novel

Jonathan Tel

ISBN 10: 1582432198 / ISBN 13: 9781582432199

Verlag: Counterpoint, 2003

Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M09B-03401

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At once a delightfully inventive chronicle of Freud's last days and an insightful reflection on Freudian existence.

A brilliantly inventive and intelligent first novel about Freud's last years in London, psychoanalysing the nation as it slips into the collective madness of World War Two. Freud-- dying of cancer--has come to London to escape persecution in Austria, bringing with him his famous couch, his collection of tribal totems and his insights into the English. Cared for by his biographer and doctor, Jones, Freud explores the city of Woolf and Eliot, of bankers, fishwives and travelling tradesmen, considering everything in the light of his own desire to find an underlying, rational explanation for irrational behaviour. The city, in turn, asserts its own surrealism, defying explanation, happy to prove one thing and also its opposite.

In the background, the nation prepares for its greatest act of rational madness--war. Jonathan Tel's first novel is a small masterpiece: a brilliant and playful insight into Freud and the English; and a beautiful evocation of the period, with its buses and fogs and housewives and men in suits. It is a surrealist Wasteland, a post-modern Mrs. Dalloway.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jonathan Tel is the author of Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao, The Beijing of Possibilities, Freud's Alphabet, and Arafat's Elephant Stories. He won the 2015 Commonwealth 2015 Short Story Prize for his story "The Human Phonograph."

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Freud's Alphabet: A Novel
Verlag: Counterpoint
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag