Susan Taubes (1928–1969)
Autor de Divorcing (New York Review Books Classics)
Obras de Susan Taubes
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Taubes, Susan
- Otros nombres
- Feldmann, Susan
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1928
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1969-11-06
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Budapest, Hungary
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- East Hampton, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- suicide
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
Jerusalem, Israel
Rochester, New York, USA - Educación
- Harvard University (PhD 1956)
Bryn Mawr College
Sorbonne - Ocupaciones
- novelist
philosopher
philosopher of religion
short story writer - Relaciones
- Taubes, Jacob (husband)
Tillich, Paul (doctoral advisor)
Sontag, Susan (friend) - Organizaciones
- Columbia University
- Biografía breve
- Susan Taubes, née Judit Zsuzsanna Feldmann, was born to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. Her parents were Marion Batory and Sándor Feldmann, a prominent psychoanalyst. In 1939, Susan and her father escaped the Nazis by emigrating to the USA. Much of her extended family was killed in the Holocaust. She attended Bryn Mawr College and went on to graduate studies at Harvard University. In 1956. she became the first woman to receive a doctorate in the history and philosophy of religion at Harvard. Her dissertation, "The Absent God: A Study of Simone Weil," was supervised by Paul Tillich. In 1949, at age 21, she married fellow philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes, with whom she had two children before divorcing in 1963. They lived in Jerusalem, Israel, and New York City for his academic positions. They both taught philosophy of religion at Columbia University. There Susan was curator of the Bush Collection of Religion and Culture. During the 1960s, she was a member of the experimental Open Theater group; edited volumes of Native American and African folktales; and published a dozen short stories, some under her birth name. She became a close friend of Susan Sontag. In November 1969, she published her novel, Divorcing. A few weeks later, she took her own life by drowning herself off East Hampton on Long Island. She left behind numerous unpublished manuscripts as well as years of private correspondence with Jacob Taubes and other prominent figures in philosophy and religion. Most of this estate was discovered years after her death, tracked down by literary scholar Sigrid Weigel, director of the Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung or ZfL (Center for Literary and Culture Research) in Berlin, Germany. With the help of Taubes' son, Prof. Weigel established the material in the Susan Taubes Archive there in 2003. She edited the multivolume publication Schriften von Susan Taubes (Susan Taubes' Writings). Collections of letters in their original language were edited with an introduction by Christina Pareigis and published in 2011 and 2014. The novel Divorcing was re-issued by The New York Review of Books in 2021.
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- Obras
- 5
- Miembros
- 164
- Popularidad
- #129,117
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 12
- Idiomas
- 3
Vier dagen na het verschijnen van een (negatieve) recensie van haar boek ('Divorcing') in The New York Times pleegt de auteur zelfmoord door verdrinking. Daarop wordt in het boek op lugubere wijze reeds allusie gemaakt. Het in heel persoonlijke en gevarieerde stijl geschreven boek schept een levendig beeld van het joodse leven in Hongarije voor WOII en focust vooral op de moeilijke verhouding tussen een voortdurend afwezige moeder en een lastig kind.
Susan Taubes (geb. Feldmann) was een Hongaars-Amerikaanse cultuurwetenschapper die getrouwd geweest was met de filosoof Jacob Taubes die relaties had met o.m. Ingeborg Bachman.… (más)