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Mark Glanville |
Oliver James
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In this intense session, psychologist Oliver James and writer Mark
Glanville explored how early experience and family dynamics impact
on identity, and looked at the different ways they approach the
question of Jewish identity. The session marked the publication
of Mark Glanville's The Goldberg Variations, in which the author
narrates his extraordinary journey from extravagantly gifted schoolboy
to football hooligan to Oxford Classics student to classical singer
and Jewish husband and father.
The book presents an unflinching portrait of Glanville and his
family, and particularly of his relationship with his father, Brian
Glanville. The session represented an equally honest dissection
of the author.
Mark Glanville studied classics at Oxford, and trained as a singer
at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has performed with Opera
North, Scottish Opera and New Israeli Opera. The Goldberg Variations
is his first book.
Oliver James is a trained clinical psychologist. His
latest book, They F*** You Up (Bloomsbury 2002), explores how our
earliest experiences make us who we are.
"Well, I found in the end that the only way I could
write the sort of book that I have written was to be very, very honest
about him [Mark Glanville's father] and about him and my mother really,
and about the people that I felt…So in order to be able to describe
what I became I had to really talk in a lot of depth and detail about
my parents and I was very, very worried indeed about how they would
react to it." [Mark Glanville]
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