In this powerfully atmospheric novel, Jacqueline Rose retells the story of Albertine from Proust's "A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu", from her point of view. But this remarkable retelling stands on its own, needing no knowledge of the original. Instead, this woman's story carries us into a lush, dream-like world, in which a drama of passion suggestive and erotic, intriguing and provocative is played out on bodies and minds alike. The beautiful orphan, Albertine, is trapped in her lover's Paris apartment. She longs for his wealth and status, and hopes he will make her safe. Sickly and pampered, he is lured by her verve, the ease of her body, the pleasures he suspects are lurking in her past. Gradually, as they circle each other, their love starts to suffocate them both. This is a strange and captivating liaison, which starts on the wide sands of Normandy and ends in the city street, in a hidden world behind closed doors. And as Albertine struggles to escape, her only delight lies in her free, sensual women friend. Yet even to them she remains mysterious. Can anyone answer the question - who is Albertine?

Albertine

jacqueline-rose

Vintage

What is the meaning of Peter Pan - not for J.M. Barrie, but for the thousands who have continued to purchase for children version after version of the story, and who have faithfully attended the productions of the play. What does Peter Pan have to say about modern conceptions of childhood, about how people understand the child's and our own relationship to language, sexuality and death? What can Peter Pan tell people about the theatrical, literary and educational institutions of which it is a part? These are some of the questions this book attempts to answer. Shifting attention away from Barrie, the originator of Peter Pan, it asks instead what is the nature of people's own desire or investment in this phenomenon of our culture. Jacqueline Rose identifies behind Peter Pan a fantasy of childhood which she traces back through the history of children's fiction, forward to modern critical commentaries on children's writing and into some of the most contemporary writers of books for children today. Peter Pan, Rose contends, forces people to question what it is they are doing in the endless production and dissemination of children's fiction. In a new preface written especially for this edition, Rose accounts for some of the new developments since the book's first publication in 1984. She discusses some of Peter Pan's new guises and their implications. From Spielberg's "Hook", to the lesbian production of the play at the London Drill Hall in 1991, to debates in the British House of Lords, to a newly claimed status as the icon of a transvestite culture, Peter Pan continues to demonstrate its bizarre renewability as a cultural fetish of modern times. Other works by Jacqueline Rose include "Sexuality in the Field of Vision" and "The Haunting of Sylvia Plath".

The Case of Peter Pan: Or the Impossiblity of Children's Fiction (Language, Discourse, Society)

Literature & Fiction

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Mothers

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Faber&Faber

By the wide sands of Normandy a cluster of young girls wheel and play, riding their bicycles along the promenade their hair flying in the Channel winds. Among them is Albertine. A sickly boy watches, longing to posses some of the girls' vitality, their verve and beauty. For her part, Albertine envies his life, the Grand Hotel, the rich leisured friends, shopping on the Grands Boulevards. She makes her play, and wins. But eventually he will make Albertine his captive, trapping her in his airless Paris apartment and his suffocating, possessive love. And as she struggles with herself and her fate, the desire she feels is not for him but for others, her free, sensual women friends. In this powerfully atmospheric novel, Jacqueline Rose re-tells the story of Albertine from Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, from her point of view. But this remarkable retelling stands on its own. Cut free from the master's text, the woman's story carries us into a lush, dreamlike inner world, in which a drama of passion is played out on bodies and minds alike - suggestive and sexy, intriguing and provocative.

Albertine [IMPORT]

Chatto Bodley Head & Cape

On Not Being Able to Sleep : Psychoanalysis and the Modern World

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Godly Kingship in Restoration England

Cambridge University Press

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium Marcel Liebman was one of post-war Europe’s preeminent Marxist intellectuals. This, his memoir of Nazi-occupied Belgium, is both an elegy and an indictment. Liebman’s account of his childhood in Brussels under the Nazi occupation explores the emergence of his class-consciousness against a background of resistance and collaboration. He documents the internal class war that has long been hidden from history: how the Nazi persecution exploited class distinctions within the Jewish community, and how certain Jewish notables collaborated in a systematic programme of denunciation and deportation against immigrant Jews who lacked the privileges of wealth and citizenship. Born Jewish is a fierce, powerful and subtle account of the Liebman family’s struggle to survive persecution and terror, a story rich with insight, humour and lyricism.

Born Jewish: A Childhood in Occupied Europe

History

Marcel Liebman

Liz Heron

Military

Verso

Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said’s abiding interest in Freud’s work and its important influence on his own. He proposes that Freud’s assumption that Moses was an Egyptian undermines any simple ascription of a pure identity, and further that identity itself cannot be thought or worked through without the recognition of the limits inherent in it. Said suggests that such an unresolved, nuanced sense of identity might, if embodied in political reality, have formed, or might still form, the basis for a new understanding between Jews and Palestinians. Instead, Israel’s relentless march towards an exclusively Jewish state denies any sense of a more complex, inclusive past.

Freud and the Non-European

EDWARD W. SAID

Christopher Bollas

Middle East

HAUNTING OF SYLVIA PLATH

Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy we can understand neither Plath's work nor what she has come to represent. She proposes that no writer demonstrates more forcefully than Plath the importance of inner psychic life for the wider sexual and political world. By the author of Sexuality in the Field of Vision .

The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

History & Criticism

Virago Press Ltd.

Sexuality in the Field of Resistance

Seagull

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