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Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial de Janet Malcolm

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial

Autor Janet Malcolm
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 noi 2012

O investigație jurnalistică de o precizie chirurgicală, Iphigenia in Forest Hills nu este doar cronica unei crime, ci o anatomie a modului în care adevărul este fragmentat în sala de judecată. Scena se deschide în decorul aparent liniștit din Queens, unde un ortodont respectat este împușcat sub privirile fiicei sale, declanșând unul dintre cele mai controversate procese din istoria recentă a New York-ului. Subliniem capacitatea extraordinară a autoarei Janet Malcolm de a transforma un raport judiciar într-o dramă cu ecouri de tragedie antică, unde personajele sunt prinse în mecanismele implacabile ale justiției și ale propriilor naturi umane.

Observăm cum autoarea disecă procesul ca pe un „concurs de narațiuni”, unde probele devin maleabile, iar deciziile judecătorești par uneori inexplicabile. Reținem că forța cărții nu rezidă în rezolvarea misterului, ci în explorarea prăpastiei dintre idealul de dreptate și realitatea subiectivă a juriului. Cine a apreciat portretul nuanțat al erorilor judiciare din The Crime of Sheila McGough va găsi aici aceeași profunzime biografică, aplicată însă unui context mult mai intim și mai violent. Dacă în In The Freud Archives Janet Malcolm analiza trădările și pasiunile din mediul academic, aici ea își mută privirea către mecanismele supraviețuirii într-o comunitate închisă, păstrând același ton sceptic și analitic.

Stilul este unul disecant, aproape clinic, dar încărcat de o tensiune morală care obligă cititorul să reevalueze conceptul de „vinovăție”. Spre deosebire de relatările clasice de tip „true crime”, Janet Malcolm nu caută senzaționalul, ci fragilitatea adevărului în fața legii. Recomandăm această lectură pentru modul în care reușește să transforme un caz de fapt divers într-o reflecție universală despre caracter și destin.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300181708
ISBN-10: 0300181701
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută mai mult decât o simplă relatare polițistă. Este o analiză fascinantă a psihologiei umane și a sistemului juridic american, scrisă de una dintre cele mai lucide voci ale jurnalismului contemporan. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care se construiește „adevărul” într-o sală de judecată și despre cum prejudecățile pot influența iremediabil soarta unui om.

Despre autor

Janet Malcolm (1934–2021) a fost o figură legendară a jurnalismului american, recunoscută pentru stilul său incisiv și abordarea critică a eticii profesionale. Colaboratoare de cursă lungă la publicația The New Yorker, Malcolm s-a specializat în explorarea zonelor gri ale moralității, fie că a scris despre psihanaliză în In The Freud Archives, fie despre relația adesea prădătoare dintre jurnalist și subiectul său în celebra lucrare The Journalist And The Murderer. Opera sa se distinge prin rigoarea cercetării și prin refuzul constant de a oferi răspunsuri simpliste la întrebări complexe.

Descriere scurtă

Prizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder trial

"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell — the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm’s admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."—Dwight Garner, New York Times
"This is shrewd and quirky crime reporting at its irresistible and disabused best."—Louis Begley, Wall Street Journal

"She couldn't have done it and she must have done it." This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mazoltuv Borukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year old child. The prosecutor calls it an act of vengeance: just weeks before Malakov was killed in cold blood, he was given custody of Michelle for inexplicable reasons. It is the "Dickensian ordeal" of Borukhova's innocent child that drives Malcolm's inquiry.
With the intellectual and emotional precision for which she is known, Malcolm looks at the trial—"a contest between competing narratives"—from every conceivable angle. It is the chasm between our ideals of justice and the human factors that influence every trial—from divergent lawyering abilities to the nature of jury selection, the malleability of evidence, and the disposition of the judge—that is perhaps most striking.
Surely one of the most keenly observed trial books ever written, Iphigenia in Forest Hills is ultimately about character and "reasonable doubt." As Jeffrey Rosen writes, it is "as suspenseful and exciting as a detective story, with all the moral and intellectual interest of a great novel."
"Iphigenia in Forest Hills is another dazzling triumph from Janet Malcolm. Here, as always, Malcolm’s work inspires the best kind of disquiet in a reader—the obligation to think." —Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
"A remarkable achievement that ranks with Malcolm's greatest books. Her scrupulous reporting and interviews with protagonists on both sides of the trial make her own narrative as suspenseful and exciting as a detective story, with all the moral and intellectual interest of a great novel." —Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America

Recenzii

"[Malcolm] is acute—and devastating."—Emily Bazelon, New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

"Reading [Malcolm], you have the sensation of encountering a mind at once incredibly blunt and terrifically precise: a sledgehammer that could debone a shad. That rare and strange effect could only be produced by an intellect as formidable as Malcolm’s."—Kathryn Schulz, Boston Globe

"This is shrewd and quirky crime reporting at its irresistible and disabused best."—Louis Begley, Wall Street Journal

"In Iphigenia in forest Hills, Janet Malcolm turns her excellence in first-person reportage to the American justice system, by way of a real jury trial in New York City in 2009. . . . A gripping read."—Marcel Berlins, The Times

"[Malcolm] is an excellent observer, with a good eye for detail."—Lynn Barber, The Sunday Times

"Ms. Malcolm’s books have wintry atmospheres—both intellectual and aesthetic—that derive partly from the way she takes facts and attaches them, like someone hanging tea-light candles from high rafters, to mythology and classic literature."—Dwight Garner, New York Times

"It would be interesting to put Tom Wolfe (a humidifier) and Ms. Malcolm (a dehumidifier) on the same court case and let them fight it out for the available oxygen in the room."—Dwight Garner, New York Times

"[Malcolm's] observations about the legal system in America are fierce and finely ground."—Dwight Garner, New York Times

"This new book does for the courtroom what Malcolm’s previous books did for biography, journalism and psychoanalysis. It shows that in a high-stakes trial nobody, least of all the judge, is an entirely disinterested player."—Jonathan Bate, The Sunday Telegraph

"Janet Malcolm’s new book, Iphigenia in Forest Hills, is a slim little volume. If it is a cold night and you don’t mind a few wrinkles, you can read the entire thing in the bath. If it is not a cold night, it will feel like one by the time you finish."—Kathryn Schulz, Boston Globe

"Iphigenia in Forest Hills is an incendiary book that begins and ends—like any good epic must—in medias res. . . . It's a story that discomfits as much as it explains. Not for Malcolm the journalism of 'reassurance' or 'rhetorical ruses,' her small book with big stakes and mythic underpinnings flies close to the sun. It unsettles and scorches and soars."—Parul Sehgal, Bookforum

"Absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell—the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm’s admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."—Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review


"Janet Malcolm has produced another masterpiece of literary reportage."—Geoff Dyer, FT.com


"Malcolm’s interpretation is . . . astonishing. . . . Under her brilliant gaze, a seemingly incidental detail shines suddenly with meaning."—Elizabeth Gumport, The Guardian

"Iphigenia in Forest Hills is a garden of forking paths where at every turn new and contradictory narrative byways open up. . . . A brief book but immense if measured by the implications that can be teased out of its sentences."—Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books

"Malcolm eschews the pretense of certainty that most journalists adopt; instead, her process of probing the ambiguities, of investigating exactly how much she knows and does not know, becomes crucial to her narratives. . . . In the rigor of her investigation [Malcolm] reaches a different kind of truth."—Ruth Franklin, New Republic

"Iphigenia in Forest Hills is a garden of forking paths where at every turn new and contradictory narrative byways open up. It is a brief book but immense if measured by the implications that can be teased out of its sentences—not to mention the spaces between the sentences. By the time we are done the certainties of legal evidence and judicial decisions have given way to a fundamental and unappeasable ambiguity."—Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books

"A curious, compelling, and somewhat bedeviling book. . . . Malcolm is wonderfully equipped for the task of anatomizing the dynamics of the legal process. Her oeuvre of books has mixed clear-eyed reporting with rigorous investigations into the lures and snares of narrative, and she writes a precise, unflappable prose that seems purpose-built to chart the inflationary theatrics of a high-stakes trial."—Eli Gottlieb, Forward

"It would be hard to pinpoint a common link between Janet Malcolm's many books, other than their consistent brilliance. . . . In Malcolm's hands, this isn't just the story of murder trial; it's a disquisition on the theater of justice. . . . Suffice it to say, after reading Iphigenia in Forest Hills, you are not likely to view future criminal trials in the same light."—Alan Bisbort, The Sunday Republican

"Iphigenia in Forest Hills is a garden of forking paths where at every turn new and contradictory narrative byways open up."—Geoffrey O'Brien, The New York Review of Books

"[Malcolm] is obviously a talented journalist who obtains a great deal of information and offers it to her rapt readers with considerable flair. Malcolm raises acute questions about out trial system. . . . Her perceptive analysis provides readers with a great deal to ponder."—Morton I. Teicher, The Buffalo Jewish Review

"In brave and crisp language, Malcolm formulates a verdict to resonate beyond the courtroom."—David Astle, ABC Radio (Au), The Book Show

"Reading Janet Malcolm’s new book, you might mistakenly think you had picked up a novel. Yet the plot is all too true and the characters are right out of the pages of the newspapers. The story . . . is so well written here that you not only get the facts of the sensational murder and riveting trial, you get the conflicts and the doubts too. Both intellectual and emotional precision are the guiding forces in this tale of justice."—Jewish Book World

"So well written . . . you not only get the facts of the sensational murder and riveting trial, you get the conflicts and the doubts too. Both intellectual and emotional precision are the guiding forces in this tale of justice."—Jewish Book World

A Lifetime Achievement award for 2011 was given to nonfiction writer and journalist Janet Malcolm by the English-Speaking Union of the United States

Runner-up for the Biography/Autobiography category at the Los Angeles Book Festival


Finalist for the 2012 Book of the Year in the True Crime category, as awarded by ForeWord Magazine


Notă biografică

Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) was the author of Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, which won the PEN Biography Award, The Journalist and the Murderer, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Reading Chekhov, Burdock, and other books. Malcolm wrote frequently for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.