Doctor Bloom's Story
เชเชเซเชเซ 2010 ยท Vintage Canada
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Doctor Bloomโs Story, a wry and subtle novel, is a Knopf Canada New Face of Fiction selection for 2004 and already a popular and critical favourite. What starts off sounding like a charming, bittersweet memoir develops rapidly into a complex and moving book centred on a pressing moral dilemma.
In the first few pages, Dr. Nicolaas Bloom, cardiologist and would-be writer, describes his lifeโs trajectory: from medical and literary studies in Leiden, Holland, through practice and research in Cambridge to, following the death of his wife, a new life in uptown Toronto. Dr. Bloomโs story proper begins in a writing workshop, taught by his tough-talking neighbour Larry Logan: Bloom finds himself entranced by one of his young classmates, a quiet, self-possessed young woman named Sophie Fรผhr.
The novel quickly establishes the rhythm it will pursue throughout, its present-day action in counterpoint with Bloomโs memories and reflections. Bloom works in a downtown medical clinic; he remembers his late wife and stillborn daughter; he considers his literary masters, most of all Chekhov; importantly, he meets Larry Loganโs estranged wife Marianne. Then, out for a run in a local ravine, he sees a woman being beaten up; he has reason to believe it is his classmate, Sophie.
As Bloom and Marianne Logan fall for one another, and Bloom tentatively pursues his long postponed writing, Sophieโs situation becomes more and more of a concern; soon it has drawn in Larry, Marianne and others, none of whom are able to step in and help her. This is in part because, complicating matters, Sophie does not appear to want to be โrescued.โ As she puts it, speaking of herself in a coded, charged conversation in the writing workshop:
โShe has a belief. She believes that there are circumstances which, although they may not appear happy, are part of a the deeper lifeโฆ. it would be a mistake, she thinks, to leave these circumstances.โ
Sophieโs husband, Walter Rollo Maggione, comes to Bloom for cardiac treatment. Abrasive and arrogant, some twenty-five years older than Sophie, he is a Swiss psychologist pursuing a doctorate at the University of Toronto, specializing in Jung. Meanwhile Marianne, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, has come to care about Sophie as deeply as Bloom has.
Bloom and Marianne return from a brief Caribbean vacation to discover Sophie in the emergency room of Sunnybrook hospital, bruised and battered, claiming to have fallen down the stairs. Her husband has also been admitted, after an attack of angina. Attempts to intervene prove fruitless, but Bloom sees a way he could help Sophie: as Maggioneโs physician, he is aware of the subtleties of his condition, aware that were Maggione to not have the right medication to hand at the right moment, his life could be in danger.
The novelโs central moral question gains shape: given all he knows about Sophieโs situation โ about the violence and suffering she experiences, and her view of it as a kind of religious task โ can Bloom justify โaltering the oddsโ? Can he make it less likely that Maggione will pull through his next cardiac malfunction? Bloomโs dilemma, carefully examined and disentangled, will haunt readers of this supple and moving novel long after its resolution.
In the first few pages, Dr. Nicolaas Bloom, cardiologist and would-be writer, describes his lifeโs trajectory: from medical and literary studies in Leiden, Holland, through practice and research in Cambridge to, following the death of his wife, a new life in uptown Toronto. Dr. Bloomโs story proper begins in a writing workshop, taught by his tough-talking neighbour Larry Logan: Bloom finds himself entranced by one of his young classmates, a quiet, self-possessed young woman named Sophie Fรผhr.
The novel quickly establishes the rhythm it will pursue throughout, its present-day action in counterpoint with Bloomโs memories and reflections. Bloom works in a downtown medical clinic; he remembers his late wife and stillborn daughter; he considers his literary masters, most of all Chekhov; importantly, he meets Larry Loganโs estranged wife Marianne. Then, out for a run in a local ravine, he sees a woman being beaten up; he has reason to believe it is his classmate, Sophie.
As Bloom and Marianne Logan fall for one another, and Bloom tentatively pursues his long postponed writing, Sophieโs situation becomes more and more of a concern; soon it has drawn in Larry, Marianne and others, none of whom are able to step in and help her. This is in part because, complicating matters, Sophie does not appear to want to be โrescued.โ As she puts it, speaking of herself in a coded, charged conversation in the writing workshop:
โShe has a belief. She believes that there are circumstances which, although they may not appear happy, are part of a the deeper lifeโฆ. it would be a mistake, she thinks, to leave these circumstances.โ
Sophieโs husband, Walter Rollo Maggione, comes to Bloom for cardiac treatment. Abrasive and arrogant, some twenty-five years older than Sophie, he is a Swiss psychologist pursuing a doctorate at the University of Toronto, specializing in Jung. Meanwhile Marianne, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, has come to care about Sophie as deeply as Bloom has.
Bloom and Marianne return from a brief Caribbean vacation to discover Sophie in the emergency room of Sunnybrook hospital, bruised and battered, claiming to have fallen down the stairs. Her husband has also been admitted, after an attack of angina. Attempts to intervene prove fruitless, but Bloom sees a way he could help Sophie: as Maggioneโs physician, he is aware of the subtleties of his condition, aware that were Maggione to not have the right medication to hand at the right moment, his life could be in danger.
The novelโs central moral question gains shape: given all he knows about Sophieโs situation โ about the violence and suffering she experiences, and her view of it as a kind of religious task โ can Bloom justify โaltering the oddsโ? Can he make it less likely that Maggione will pull through his next cardiac malfunction? Bloomโs dilemma, carefully examined and disentangled, will haunt readers of this supple and moving novel long after its resolution.
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Don Coles is one of Canadaโs most successful and respected poets. He studied history at the University of Toronto and took a second degree at Cambridge University, then spent more than a decade on the continent in France, Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Coles and his wife, Heidi, returned to Canada after the birth of his first child, and he was invited to join the faculty of York Universityโs humanities department.
โIt turned out, after a worrisome few days, that I liked it very much, and I was there for more than thirty years,โ he told the Globe and Mail in an interview. He was also, for ten years, Senior Poetry Editor at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Coles recently turned to fiction, in part out of a desire to work โin a more generous and pliant space than my usual genre,โ he told the National Post. He described the process of writing Doctor Bloom's Story as: โA sheer joy. . . . And I lived in it for eight or nine hours a day for at least four of the seven days in every week for three years. Not bad for a person generally considered to be, as I'm belatedly realizing, past it.โ
Don Coles has published ten books of poetry. He is the recipient of a Governor Generalโs Award, a Trillium Award and the John Glassco Prize for Translation.
He lives in Toronto.
โIt turned out, after a worrisome few days, that I liked it very much, and I was there for more than thirty years,โ he told the Globe and Mail in an interview. He was also, for ten years, Senior Poetry Editor at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Coles recently turned to fiction, in part out of a desire to work โin a more generous and pliant space than my usual genre,โ he told the National Post. He described the process of writing Doctor Bloom's Story as: โA sheer joy. . . . And I lived in it for eight or nine hours a day for at least four of the seven days in every week for three years. Not bad for a person generally considered to be, as I'm belatedly realizing, past it.โ
Don Coles has published ten books of poetry. He is the recipient of a Governor Generalโs Award, a Trillium Award and the John Glassco Prize for Translation.
He lives in Toronto.
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