Volume 29, Number 20 · December 16, 1982
The Shrink Princess
By Phyllis Grosskurth
Marie Bonaparte: A Life
by Celia Bertin
A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 286 pp., $17.95
Some years ago I read the first volume of Marie Bonaparte's autobiography, A la Mémoire des disparus (1953), which ended with her marriage to Prince George of Greece in 1907. The narrative—1,004 pages in all—struck me as one of the most absorbing memoirs I had ever read. It is the story of a lonely girl brought up in an atmosphere of suspicion, lovelessness, and aspirations to grandeur. I longed to read the second volume, which purportedly contained an account of her analysis with Freud and her efforts to save him from the Nazis, but I was unable to trace a copy of it.
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