Volume 46, Number 13 · August 12, 1999
Trouble on the Mountain
By Julian Moynahan
The Deposition of Father McGreevy
by Brian O'Doherty
Turtle Point Press/Books and Company/Helen Marx Books, 404 pp., $25.00
Brian O'Doherty is an art historian and critic who has taken to writing fiction during the past decade. As if this uncommon versatility were not enough he is reported on the jacket of this beautifully printed book to have graduated as a medical doctor from University College, Dublin. His novel of 1992, The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P., is based on an actual and strange episode involving a blind young pianist who is treated by Anton Mesmer, the creator of the theory of animal magnetism. The then-fashionable Viennese doctor effects a temporary cure, and Mlle. P. regains her vision. But she loses her musical ear, and under the spell of her autocratic father, turns against the restorer of her sight.[*]
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