Jed Rubenfeld skillfully blends his background in Shakespearean studies with psychoanalytic insights to create compelling historical novels. His literary approach is both analytical and fictional, offering readers a unique exploration of the human psyche. Through his work, he demonstrates a mastery of narrative, leaving a distinctive mark on literature by delving into complex themes with intellectual rigor.
A tale inspired by the September 1920 bombing in New York's financial district finds a Harvard-trained physician and a New York Police Department captain teaming up after witnessing the explosion and encountering a beautiful French scientist with a troubled brother. By the author of the best-selling The Interpretation of Murder.
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The 10 year anniversary edition of a dazzling literary thriller including brand new material, THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER is the story of Sigmund Freud assisting a Manhattan murder investigation. Think SHADOW OF THE WIND meets THE HISTORIAN. THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER is an inventive tour de force inspired by Sigmund Freud's 1909 visit to America, accompanied by protégé and rival Carl Jung. When a wealthy young debutante is discovered bound, whipped and strangled in a luxurious apartment overlooking the city, and another society beauty narrowly escapes the same fate, the mayor of New York calls upon Freud to use his revolutionary new ideas to help the surviving victim recover her memory of the attack, and solve the crime. But nothing about the attacks - or about the surviving victim, Nora - is quite as it seems. And there are those in very high places determined to stop the truth coming out, and Freud's startling theories taking root on American soil.
1920 rok. To właśnie bomba, która zniszczyła Wall Street w 1920 roku eksploduje na pierwszych stronach Instynktu śmierci . Weteran wojenny doktor Stratham Younger i kapitan James Littlemore z nowojorskiej policji znajdują się na Wall Street pamiętnego dnia wybuchu. Towarzyszy im piękna Colette Rousseau, francuska specjalistka w dziedzinie radiochemii, którą Younger poznał, walcząc we Francji podczas I wojny światowej. Kilka niewytłumaczalnych ataków na Colette, tajemnica schowana w jej przeszłości i tajemnicze fakty, odkryte przez Youngera stają się dla trójki bohaterów początkiem fascynującej podróży, która poprowadzi ich do Paryża i Pragi; z salonu wiedeńskiego domu Zygmunta Freuda zabierze ich na korytarze władzy w Waszyngtonie, by w końcu odkryć przed nimi ukryte pokłady naszych najokrutniejszych instynktów.