by Janet Malcolm · DEBATE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499920634
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«Ifigenia en Forest Hills» is Janet Malcolm's nonfiction essay about a murder trial, published by Debate in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Janet Malcolm reconstructs the trial of Mazoltuv Borujova, accused of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband, the dentist Daniel Malakov, in front of their four-year-old daughter. The author analyzes how the prosecution's and defense's narratives clash, and to what extent jury selection, evidence and the judge's criteria condition the search for justice.
The volume belongs to Debate's Crónica y Periodismo collection. Translation by Catalina Martínez Muñoz.
Suitable for readers interested in true crime, journalistic reportage and the inner workings of murder trials.
Janet Clara Malcolm was an American writer, staff journalist at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist who fled antisemitic persecution in Nazi-occupied Prague. She was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990). Malcolm wrote frequently about psychoanalysis and explored the relationship between journalist and subject. She was known for her prose style and for polarizing criticism of her profession, especially in her most contentious work, The Journalist and the Murderer, which has become a staple of journalism-school curricula.
