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The Debt We Owe to Jenny Diski | The New Yorker

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In the brave, kind stories collected in “The Vanishing Princess,” female protagonists come to see themselves differently through investigating the difference of others.

Save this story Save this story What is meant when a person is deemed ahead of her time? It sounds like a fantastic compliment, yet the circumstances under which people hear it, in reference to themselves, are not always so positive. People are often told that they are ahead of their time as a means of ego consolation following the world’s neglect of their work. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor in the late eighteen-hundreds, for instance, tried to convince his co-workers that they should wash their hands between dissecting corpses and delivering babies. His controversial “theory of contagi

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