Susan Taubes

Dec 21, 2024 | aoc.media | Susan Taubes

Vies et morts de Sophie Blind Vous n’aviez pas pu lire en français Susan Taubes avant aujourd’hui mais sort enfin à la rentrée, chez Rivages, le premier roman de cette écrivaine et universitaire américaine d’origine hongroise, suicidée peu après la parution, en 1969, de Divorcing, son titre original. « C’est simple, il n’y a rien que cette femme ne sache écrire », écrit Jakuta Alikavazovic en préface, qui sait de quoi elle parle puisque c’est elle qui l’a traduite.

Sep 27, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Susan Taubes |Jordan Kisner

Let’s​ start with her life, which is as operatically strange as the fiction. Susan Taubes was born Judit Zsuzánna Feldmann in Budapest in 1928. Her father was one of Freud’s disciples; his father was chief rabbi of Budapest. At the age of eleven, she and her father left Hungary for the United States (her mother stayed behind to marry someone else) and watched from afar as the German occupation demolished their home city.

Jun 5, 2023 | nyrb.com | Susan Taubes

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May 4, 2023 | harpers.org | Susan Taubes

From Lament for Julia, which will be published this month by New York Review Books. I did not love her at first; not for a long time. She did not suit me at all, this fidgety, freckle-faced, thumb-sucking, bed-wetting Julia. She was too plump and tart for my taste; already as a tot she loitered around the servants’ quarters on the lookout for the maid’s lovers. And the way she threw herself about wantonly in the presence of any male! I was ashamed of Julia.

Apr 24, 2023 | yalereview.org | Susan Taubes

May chattered on like a little girl, and although Marianna’s father was continually urging her to sit, she kept flitting about the room to look at a painting or piece of woodwork, to pass the plate of pastry which was still full around once more or lift the window shades—why did he keep them down on a perfectly gorgeous day! She teased her father about his choice of furniture, but she found it suited him perfectly.