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Bezig met laden... Moordduiding (2006)door Jed Rubenfeld
  
Bezig met laden...
 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  Cromboek | Jun 20, 2022 |   Inspired by Sigmund Freud's only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murder is an intricate tale of murder and the mind's most dangerous mysteries. It unfurls on a sweltering August evening in 1909 as Freud disembarks from the steamship George Washington, accompanied by Carl Jung, his rival and protege. Across town, in an opulent apartment high above the city, a stunning young woman is found dangling from a chandelier—whipped, mutilated, and strangled. The next day, a second beauty—a rebellious heiress who scorns both high society and her less adventurous parents—barely escapes the killer. Yet Nora Acton, suffering from hysteria, can recall nothing of her attack. Asked to help her, Dr. Stratham Younger, America's most committed Freudian analyst, calls in his idol, the Master himself, to guide him through the challenges of analyzing this high-spirited young woman whose family past has been as complicated as his own. The Interpretation of Murder leads readers from the salons of Gramercy Park, through secret passages, to Chinatown—even far below the currents of the East River where laborers are building the Manhattan Bridge. As Freud fends off a mysterious conspiracy to destroy him, Younger is drawn into an equally thrilling adventure that takes him deep into the subterfuges of the human mind. Â Richly satisfying, elegantly crafted, The Interpretation of Murder marks the debut of a brilliant, spectacularly entertaining new storyteller. losloper | Feb 10, 2010 |
With the stolid and difficult Freud as anchor of his narrative, Rubenfeld takes the reader on a beguiling tour of the opium dens of Chinatown, the haunts of the rich at Gramercy Park and even the subterranean construction site of the Manhattan Bridge under the East River. If he lacks the rigour of a more experienced novelist in fusing the disparate elements in his narrative, his admiration for the troubled Freud carries all before it. When he was studying Freud as a young man, Freud's reputation was in flux, but Rubenfeld was always ready to defend his hero. That enthusiasm is the wellspring of this uneven but dazzling novel. THIS much-hyped debut novel, a historical thriller by Jed Rubenfeld, a Yale law professor, deploys the surefire “Da Vinci Code” formula: titillation plus high-culture trivia. Alternating scenes of erotic asphyxiation with references to Copernicus and Hegel, “The Interpretation of Murder” takes as its subjects Sigmund Freud’s 1909 visit to America and a series of attacks on young society women. The result is both smutty and pretentious....The novel is difficult to put down. Its ironclad, cliffhanger-rich, shooting-script structure makes it a page turner, as do the breathlessly described episodes of oral sex, “CSI”-style forensics and cinematic violence. But, as with a jaw-droppingly bad movie, just because it’s riveting doesn’t mean it’s pleasurable. New York debutantes are not the only potential victims of strangulation in this much-lauded but over-complex novel based on Freud's visit to America in 1909. Professionally, the visit was a success, and Freud's subsequent aversion to all things American has never been explained. Jed Rubenfeld's solution to this mystery involves society balls and mysterious Chinamen, decompression problems in the building of the Manhattan Bridge, vanishing corpses, the breakdown of Freud's relationship with Jung, power struggles between the mayor and Tammany Hall, two secret passages, an enigmatic cabal, bondage, flagellation, murder, and much, much more. Too much, in fact. However, a book which might have been an impossible tangle is held together by the enthusiastic intelligence of the author, who has vividly evoked a city and a revolutionary movement just at the moment of their emerging greatness. Yet somewhere in its Freudian subconscious a simpler and perhaps stronger story of power, skulduggery and romance is struggling to get out. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Stratham Younger (1)
Dr. Freud is called in when a young women and her parents are attacked by a killer and she can't remember the details of the attack. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813Literature English (North America) American fictionLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.32)
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De onbeduidende, maar intelligente en vasthoudende inspecteur Littlemore is belast met het onderzoek.
Er worden veel personages opgevoerd in deze roman en hier en daar is het wat moeilijk te volgen, maar het verhaal is wel intrigerend met de mix van fictie, historie, wetenschap, seks, rangen en standen en waargebeurde feiten. (