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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Freud's Alphabet

Freud's Alphabet

Tel, Jonathan

Hardcover

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1582432198
ISBN13: 9781582432199
Publisher: Catapult
Published: Jun 19 2003
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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.

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