By Nina Sutton. Translated from the French by David Sharp, in collaboration with the author. 606 pp. New York, Basic Books, 1996. $35. ISBN 0-465-00635-3.
The photograph of Bruno Bettelheim on the cover of this newand masterly biography encapsulates many of the powerful andconflicting images that have come to define this complex man.He is seated, reading, in front of an elaborate candelabrum,an elderly man with an expression of such depth that in it onecan find wisdom, weariness, disdain, impatience, warmth, andabove all, direct intensity. It is the achievement of the author,Nina Sutton, the British-born French journalist, that she hasbeen able to tell Bettelheim's story in such a way as to allowan exhilarating exploration of the life . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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