false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171821164m/120159.jpg 120159 12 First, a bit of history: The seventh Earl of Lucan disappeared on November 7, 1974, leaving behind the battered body of his children's nanny and a beaten wife. Widely covered in the press, his sensational story has had a surprisingly long half-life, and the speculation about his whereabouts has never quite died out. In this book, Muriel Spark toys with several provocative issues arising out of the case: identity, class, blood ("it is not purifying, it is sticky"), and the dynamics of psychiatry ("most of the money wasted on psychoanalysis goes on time spent unraveling the lies of the patient").<p> <I>Aiding and Abetting</I> opens sometime late in the 20th century, when an Englishman in his 60s walks into the Paris practice of famed Bavarian psychiatrist Dr Hildegard Wolf and announces that he is the missing Lord Lucan. Yet Hildegrad is already treating one self-confessed Lord Lucan. And what's more, both patients seem to have dirt on her--for isn't she really Beate Pappenheim, a notorious fraud who used her menstrual blood to fake her stigmata? Fearing for her safety, Hildegard flees to London, where her path inevitably crosses that of two British Lucan hunters.<p> <I>Aiding and Abetting</I> contains more than its share of broad farce and bitter irony. But it remains a strange, slight affair, its unspoken tenet being that the Lucan case still preys on the communal mind of the British public, its details (like the perpetrator's penchant for smoked salmon and lamb chops) indelibly printed there. For anyone under 30, that's a difficult argument to swallow. As one wise character puts it: "Few people today would take Lucan and his pretensions seriously, as they rather tended to do in the 70s." Times have changed indeed--and perhaps that's Spark's point after all, that the "psychological paralysis" of the not-quite-swinging '70s is long gone. <I>--Alan Stewart</I> 3181113 2000 Aiding and Abetting total:157|5:13|4:45|3:70|2:18|1:11| 157 502 202 32 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 06:30:02 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 06:54:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 20:43:32 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 22:48:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 13 16:36:33 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 13 16:38:38 -0700 2007 2 1 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 07:30:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 07:31:14 -0700 2009
Spark is usually a winner. Crisp, clean, f...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 13:06:27 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 07:10:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 09:03:04 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 07:03:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Nov 07 17:10:07 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 10:50:19 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jan 06 18:28:38 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 11 15:55:53 -0700 2009
Interesting thesis. Could explain why he was seen here and there ... kind of like The Scarlet Pimpernel.

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