{"product_id":"parallel-lives-from-freud-and-mann-to-arbus-and-plath-paperback-softback-9780807182260","title":"Parallel Lives; From Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807182260","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eParallel Lives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeffrey Meyers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807182260\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.432 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOne of our greatest living biographers.\"\" - Paul Theroux, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mosquito Coast\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Meyers's \u003ci\u003eHemingway\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great biographies of our half-century, a masterwork in which true scholarship and creative art are so united as to become indistinguishable.\"\" - George D. Painter, author of \u003ci\u003eMarcel Proust: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eParallel Lives\u003c\/i\u003e covers the century from the birth of Sigmund Freud in 1856 to the death of Sylvia Plath in 1963. Written by the esteemed biographer and literary critic Jeffrey Meyers, the book includes European, American, and Russian authors and artists, film directors and actors, children and soldiers, friends and lovers, rivals and enemies. Drawing on the bifocal principle of dual composition in Plutarch, these brief lives are arranged in pairs to interact with each other and illuminate their subjects' similarities, characters, and friendships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The linked structure of \u003ci\u003eParallel Lives \u003c\/i\u003eallows several major figures Sigmund Freud, Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, and Seamus Heaney to appear in multiple chapters. The most violent friendship ended when Verlaine shot Rimbaud and went to prison, and Rimbaud crawled back from Africa to die miserably in France. The most brilliant friendship broke up when Wilson attacked Nabokov's edition of Alexander Pushkin. The most moving connection was Audrey Hepburn's tender and sympathetic attachment to her soul-sister Anne Frank. Using mirror images reveals a new way to perceive these illustrious men and women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Each chapter shifts the focus back and forth between two subjects, comparing them, changing perspective, reevaluating similarities and contrasts. With vivid details and dramatic events, Meyers emphasizes the backgrounds, intellectual influences, and personality traits of his paired subjects. By examining the complex motives for irrational behavior ranging from deep affection to intense hostility, warm encouragement to bitter rivalry (sometimes together in the same chapter), \u003ci\u003eParallel Lives\u003c\/i\u003e offers insights into the dynamics of complementary characters.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676611047704,"sku":"9780807182260","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/parallel-lives-from-freud-and-mann-to-arbus-and-plath-paperback-softback-9780807182260","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}