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The Rapture Of Lol V. Stein

Tony Hughes

Issue 9 — Spring 1997

37–46

Michelle Montrelet was the first psychoanalyst to comment on the novel, which she did in Seminar XII, Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis.[2] The Rapture of Lol V. Stein[3] is the story of a nineteen-year-old Jewish woman who has been engaged for six months to Michael Richardson. One evening she goes to a ball with him at the T. Beach Municipal Casino and during the course of the evening a mysterious woman - Anne-Marie Stretter - enters the ballroom accompanied by her daughter.…

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