Still Pictures : On Photography and Memory
Malcolm, Janet
For decades, Janet Malcolm’s books and dispatches for the New Yorker
have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the
artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here, Malcolm
turns her gimlet eye on her own life, examining twelve family
photographs to construct a memoir from camera-caught moments, each of
which pose questions of their own. She begins with the picture of a
morose young girl on a train, leaving Prague at the age of five in 1939.
From there we follow her to the Czech enclave of Yorkville in
Manhattan, where her father, a psychiatrist and neurologist, and her
mother, an attorney from a bourgeois family, traded their bohemian,
Dada-inflected lives for the ambitions of middle-class America. From her
early, fitful loves to evenings at the old Metropolitan Opera House to
her fascination with what it might mean to be a "bad girl," Malcolm
assembles a composite portrait of a New York childhood, one that never
escaped the tug of Europe and the mysteries of fate and family. Later,
Malcolm delves into her marriage to Gardner Botsford, the world of
William Shawn’s New Yorker, and the libel trial that led her to become a
character in her own drama.
Displaying the sharp wit and
astute commentary that are Malcolmian trademarks, this brief volume
develops into a memoir like no other.
Kustantaja: UKBooks
Sidosasu: Kovakantinen
ean: 9781783788361
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