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"Knipfel is blessed with a natural, one might even say reflexive, knack for telling stories Aand? displays remarkable elan and some wicked black humor."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"Jim Knipfel's artistic vision is as stunning as a sunset over the Brooklyn Bridge."--Entertainment WeeklyIn his new memoir, Quitting the Nairobi Trio, Jim Knipfel, the critically acclaimed author of Slackjaw, spends six months in a locked-door psych ward only to find that life can be better on the inside. Thomas Pynchon has called Jim Knipfel's writing "extraordinary." Now Knipfel uses these abilities to remarkably chronicle the time he spent in a Minneapolis psychiatric ward as his own therapeutic counsel.As his account opens, Knipfel has just failed at yet another frenzied suicide attempt and has been picked up by the police. Soon thereafter he is forced to settle into a hospital psychiatric ward waiting until a doctor, whose once-a-week sessions last ten minutes each, deems him mentally fit to be released. Effectively abandoned, Knipfel begins his self-analysis and embarks on a series of haphazard skirmishes to regain his sanity, make new friends, and devise ways to pass the time.Ultimately, a revelation from public television and insights from a fellow patient and the late comic Ernie Kovacs provide Knipfel with a way out, one that only a paranoid, or Knipfel, could appreciate.Quitting the Nairobi Trio is a brazen narrative reminiscent of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. The difference here, however, is that Knipfel enjoyed his life in the "bughouse." Certain to have readers laughing at his caustic wit, Knipfel's memoir will leave some wishing he was still there.… (altro)
For me, the most effective aspect of Quitting the Nairobi Trio - a personal account of author Jim Knipfel's experiences in a psych ward after a failed suicide attempt - is that Knipfel restricts descriptions of these experiences (including delusions and hallucinations) to how he perceived them at the time that they occurred. This not only goes a long way towards illustrating his true state of mind at the time, but makes it easier read the emotional turmoil behind the analytical tendencies of mental illness as filtered through the mind of an intellectually curious student of philosophy. self-reflection cannot occur without self-deprecation, and Knipfel does not shy away from this important element. Above all else, Knipfel's accounts of this period of his life is handled with a dark yet ultimately optimistic humor that loses touch with humanity, and an end to the story that does not pretend to be an end to the story. ( )
Jim Knipfel is a mental health survivor and a gifted, original writer. His memoir is eye-popping and literate; it's quickly apparent why Mr. Knipfel's work has attracted a small, dedicated core of fans, including the great Thomas Pynchon. The title refers to an old Ernie Kovacs routine (which you can probably find on YouTube). Its anarchic wit is in perfect keeping with Mr. Knipfel's stubborn, hopeful vision; no one can have endured what he has without a healthy dose of the absurd...and surreal. ( )
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The fragmented body... usually manifests itself in dreams when the movement of the analysis encounters a certain level of aggressive disintegration in the individual. It then appears in the form of disjointed limbs, or of those organs represented in exoscopy, growing wings and taking up arms for intestinal persecutions--the very same that visionary Hieronymus Bosch has fixed, for all time, in painting. --JACQUES LACAN, "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience"
People always call a madhouse "sompleace," don't they? --NORMAN BATES, Psycho
Nothing in moderation. --ERNIE KOVACS
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FOR DEREK S. B. DAVIS, compadre and goofball, who always liked that story.
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It's never easy telling your mother that you've failed again.
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"Knipfel is blessed with a natural, one might even say reflexive, knack for telling stories Aand? displays remarkable elan and some wicked black humor."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"Jim Knipfel's artistic vision is as stunning as a sunset over the Brooklyn Bridge."--Entertainment WeeklyIn his new memoir, Quitting the Nairobi Trio, Jim Knipfel, the critically acclaimed author of Slackjaw, spends six months in a locked-door psych ward only to find that life can be better on the inside. Thomas Pynchon has called Jim Knipfel's writing "extraordinary." Now Knipfel uses these abilities to remarkably chronicle the time he spent in a Minneapolis psychiatric ward as his own therapeutic counsel.As his account opens, Knipfel has just failed at yet another frenzied suicide attempt and has been picked up by the police. Soon thereafter he is forced to settle into a hospital psychiatric ward waiting until a doctor, whose once-a-week sessions last ten minutes each, deems him mentally fit to be released. Effectively abandoned, Knipfel begins his self-analysis and embarks on a series of haphazard skirmishes to regain his sanity, make new friends, and devise ways to pass the time.Ultimately, a revelation from public television and insights from a fellow patient and the late comic Ernie Kovacs provide Knipfel with a way out, one that only a paranoid, or Knipfel, could appreciate.Quitting the Nairobi Trio is a brazen narrative reminiscent of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. The difference here, however, is that Knipfel enjoyed his life in the "bughouse." Certain to have readers laughing at his caustic wit, Knipfel's memoir will leave some wishing he was still there.
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