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Title: The Camera My Mother Gave Me
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Narrator: Susanna Kaysen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-16-02
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
The title comes from Luis Bunuel's film Viridiana. Some peasants are at a banquet in a country mansion. They ask a maid to take a group snapshot, and she obliges, lifting up her skirt and using the "camera" that's underneath.
Kaysen's The Camera My Mother Gave Me observes what happens when sexual pleasure is replaced by pain. "When eros goes away," she writes, "it's as if I'm colorblind. The world is gray." But is this a problem of body, or mind? And can clinicians tease out the difference between the two?
Spare, frank, and altogether original, The Camera My Mother Gave Me challenges us to think in new ways about the centrality and power of sexuality. It is an extraordinary investigation into the role sex plays in perception and our notions of ourselves, and into what happens when the erotic impulse meets the world of medicine.
Critic Reviews:
"Thoughts on sexuality, love, trust, femininity, age, self-image, and the wisdom of the body radiate out from her pain like rays from the sun, touching her rapt, sympathetic, and often amused readers with the heat and light of her hard-won insights and candor." (Booklist)
