The Fiction of Susan Taubes, Reconsidered
Her suicide, on the publication of her first novel, made her an icon of doomed femininity, but rediscovered works are revealing a more complex writer.
Source: newyorker.com
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Her suicide, on the publication of her first novel, made her an icon of doomed femininity, but rediscovered works are revealing a more complex writer.
The enigmatic Susan Taubes wrote the coming-of-age novel “Lament for Julia” in the 1960s; 54 years after her death, its gothic splendors shine.
“The thought that his end was imminent always gave him a sense of release and new vitality.”
By drawing on Susan Taubes’s novel “Divorcing,” a recent biography of the rabbi and scholar Jacob Taubes tests the limits of the genre.
From the blog of Renee Garfinkel at The Times of Israel