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An edition of The bird's nest (1954)

Lizzie

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  • 1 Have read

La protagonista, Elizabeth Richmond, ventitré anni, i tratti insieme eleganti e anonimi di una "vera gentildonna" della provincia americana, non sembra avere altri progetti che quello di aspettare "la propria dipartita stando il meno male possibile". Sotto un'ingannevole tranquillità, infatti, si agita in lei un disagio allarmante che si traduce in ricorrenti emicranie, vertigini e strane amnesie. Un disagio a lungo senza nome, finché un medico geniale e ostinato, il dottor Wright, dopo aver sottoposto la giovane a lunghe sedute ipnotiche, rivelerà la presenza di tre personalità sovrapposte e conflittuali: oltre alla stessa Elizabeth, l'amabile e socievole Beth e il suo negativo fotografico Betsy, "maschera crudele e deforme" che vorrebbe fagocitare e distruggere, con il suo "sorriso laido e grossolano" e i suoi modi sadici, insolenti e volgari, le altre due. È solo l'inizio di un inabissamento che assomiglierà, più a che un percorso clinico coronato da un successo terapeutico, a una discesa amorale e spietata nelle battaglie angosciose di un Io diviso, apparentemente impossibile da ricomporre: tanto che il dottor Wright sentirà scosse le fondamenta non solo della sua dottrina, ma della sua stessa visione del rapporto tra l'identità e la realtà.

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Publisher
Adelphi
Language
Italian
Pages
318

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Cover of: The Bird's Nest
The Bird's Nest
Jan 28, 2014, Penguin Classics
Cover of: The bird's nest
The bird's nest
2014, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Lizzie
Lizzie
2014, Adelphi
in Italian
Cover of: The Bird's Nest
The Bird's Nest
Jul 03, 2001, Penguin Classics
Cover of: The Bird's Nest
The Bird's Nest
December 1993, Yestermorrow
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The bird's nest
The bird's nest
1991, Yestermorrow
in English
Cover of: The bird's nest
The bird's nest
1986, Arbor House
in English
Cover of: The bird's nest
The bird's nest
Mar 18, 1986, Arbor House, William Morrow & Co
Cover of: The bird's nest.
The bird's nest.
1954, Farrar, Straus, and Young
in English
Cover of: The bird's nest.
The bird's nest.
1954, Farrar, Straus
in English

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Edition Notes

Translation Of
The Bird's Nest
Translated From
English

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL40234181M
ISBN 13
9788845928918

Work Description

Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old whiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother's inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But slowly, and with Jackson's characteristic chill, we learn that Elizabeth is not just one girl--but four separate, self-destructive personalities.

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