The Absent Woman

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When you know of Janet Malcolm, you spot traces of her everywhere. You understand that she was a titan of the written word – a longtime New Yorker staff writer, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Book Award finalist – with a far-reaching impact and cult-like following. But if you don’t know to look for her name, it is easy to miss – unlike some of her contemporaries, Malcolm was actively opposed to being a literary celebrity, even while famously controversial for challenging the notion of journalism’s objectivity. ‘The Absent Woman’ plumbs the Malcolm archives to uncover a portrait of this notoriously private writer and her work, and of the people and themes that she was consumed by in her over sixty-year career.

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Unlike her peers Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, New Yorker journalist Janet Malcolm avoided the personal fame her renown might have otherwise brought. In The Absent Woman, journalist Eve Sneider, among the first to access Malcolm's archive, insightfully portrays this enigmatic writer and the people and themes that consumed her during a nearly sixty-year career. Examining Malcolm's infamous trials with psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, her provocative convictions about journalism, and her eventual turn to autobiographical writing, Sneider grapples with the dilemma at the heart of her subject's work: the knotted ethics of depicting another person, even as she depicts Malcolm. Divided into identities Malcolm embodied – �migr�, humourist, photographer, shrink watcher, defendant, writer, artist, archivist – The Absent Woman is a vivid, Malcolmian probe into the mind of one of the most elusive literary figures of our time.

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Dimensions 21.6 × 13.8 cm
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Hardback
Pages

256
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

070.92 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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