The Interpretation of Murder
Author: Jed Rubenfeld
Translator: Hyun-ju Park
Publisher: Bichae
570 pages | 218*148mm
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About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
The search for a serial killer during Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to
New York City, his one trip to the U.S., propels the plot of Yale law
professor Rubenfeld's ambitious debut. Freud's arrival coincides with
the sadistic murder of a beautiful young woman in an upscale hotel. A
similar attack on another woman results in the victim's hysterical
paralysis. The efforts of Dr. Stratham Younger, a protege of Freud's, to
recover the survivor's memories of her assailant lead Younger into a
morass of politics, big money and kinky sexual escapades. Freud plays a
background role, but the father of psychoanalysis does get to expound
his ideas, demonstrate his diagnostic acumen and don an apparent
martyr's robe. Readers will learn much about Freud's relationship with
his then-disciple Carl Jung, the building of the Manhattan Bridge, the
early opponents to Freud's theories and the central problem posed by
Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy. While not as well crafted as
Caleb Carr's similarly themed The Alienist, this well-researched and
thought-provoking novel is sure to be a crowd pleaser.
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