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Description: Jonathan Tel’s imaginative historical novel centered on Sigmund Freud’s final years in London, after his flight from Nazi-controlled Vienna and as Europe moves toward the Second World War. Mixing historical detail, psychoanalytic ideas, and fiction, Tel portrays the aging Freud confronting illness, exile, English society, and the increasingly irrational world surrounding him. This is the first U.S. edition, first printing, published by Counterpoint in 2003. The copyright page states that it was first published in Great Britain by Scribner in 2003 and first published in the United States by Counterpoint the same year; the complete number line ends in 1. 188 pages. Detailed Condition: Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust jacket. Binding firm and pages appear clean and unmarked. Black remainder mark to the top edge of the text block. Dust jacket is bright and complete with light rubbing and minor shelf/edge wear. No major tears or losses visible. Overall an attractive copy. Please see photographs for condition details. Shipping / Returns: Carefully packed and shipped with tracking. Thirty-day returns accepted in accordance with AbeBooks policies. PSYCH 2a.…
Seller Inventory # ABE-1789766813409
- Title
- Freud's Alphabet
- Author
- Tel, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1582432198
- ISBN 13
- 9781582432199
- Item weight
- 0.56 pounds
- Dimensions
- 5.5 inches width by 8.5 inches height by 0.66 inches depth
- Seller catalogs
- History of Psychiatry, Literature & Fiction, Psychoanalysis
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.
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