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020			_a9781593761257
050	0	0	_aB1674.W644 _bA3 2006
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100	1		_aWollheim, Richard
245	1	0	_aGerms _b: a memoir of childhood _c/ Richard Wollheim.
250			_a1st Shoemaker & Hoard ed.
260			_aEmeryville, CA _b: Shoemaker & Hoard _c, 2006. _d2004.
300			_a263p. _c; 22 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: Baltimore : Waywiser Press, 2004.
520			_aPhilosopher Wollheim (The Mind and Its Depths) tells a compelling tale of a childhood in England during the Twenties and Thirties among celebrities, governesses, and often distracted parents. His impresario father and Gaiety Girl mother entertained such cultural figures as Kurt Weill and Diaghilev. But despite this apparent glamour, Wollheim spent much of his childhood in hotels with nannies while his parents traveled elsewhere. Complicating this lonely existence, his beautiful, eccentric mother had an obsession with cleaning, which came before anything else. Wollheim's unusual childhood probably contributed to his having been a sickly child, and the time he spent convalescing encouraged his love of reading. By age ten, his interest in painting provided another refuge from an ever-present fear of grown-up neglect and disapproval. Remarkably, Wollheim recollects events and feelings from the distant past in Proust-like detail to create a moving yet sometimes humorous portrait. Published posthumously and set at a time of increasing turmoil in Germany, this memoir also conveys Freud's influence as Wollheim analyzes the discomfort he felt as the child of a German Jew living in England.
600	1	0	_aWollheim, Richard
650		0	_aPhilosophers _z--Great Britain _v--Biography
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