Husbands and Wives
Terry Castle: Claude & Marcel, Gertrude & Alice, 13 December 2007
Don’t Kiss Me: The Art of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
edited by Louise Downie.
Tate Gallery, 240 pp., £25, June 2006,1 59711 025 6 Show More
edited by Louise Downie.
Tate Gallery, 240 pp., £25, June 2006,
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
by Janet Malcolm.
Yale, 229 pp., £16.99, October 2007,978 0 300 12551 1 Show More
by Janet Malcolm.
Yale, 229 pp., £16.99, October 2007,
“... fundamental obstacles – familiar to life-writers everywhere since the days of Suetonius and Plutarch – prompt in Malcolm a kind of epistemological distress. ‘The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties,’ she says at one point; ‘Almost everything we know we know incompletely at best.’In turn, her literary sophistication and ... ”
