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A Posthumous Confession (New York Review Books (Paperback))

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Termeer, the narrator of A Posthumous Confession,Â is a twisted man and a troubled one. The emotionally stunted son of a cold, forbidding, and hypocritical father, Termeer has only succeeded in living up to his parentsâ€™ low expectations when, to his own and othersâ€™ astonishment, he finds himself wooing a beautiful and gifted womanâ€”a woman whose love he wins. But instead of finding happiness in marriage, Termeer discovers it to be a new source of self-hatred, hatred that he turns upon his wife and child. And when he becomes caught up in an affair with a woman as demanding as his own self-loathing, he is driven to murder.

What is the self, and how does it evade or come to terms with itself? WhatÂ can make it go permanently, lethally wrong? Marcellus Emantsâ€™s grueling and gripping novelâ€”a late-nineteenth-century tour de force of psychological penetrationâ€”is a lacerating exposition of the logic of identity that looks backward to Dostoyevsky, forward to Simenon, and beyond to the confessional literature, whether fiction or fact, of our own day.

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Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2011-02-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590173473